Effects of Federal Regulation on the Financial Structure and Performance of the Domestic Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (Source Document)

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• Creators:
  Anderson, Martin ; Blair, Paul
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Costs Economic Analysis Economic Forecasting Finance Industries Motor Vehicle Industry Regulation Regulations Sales
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-NHTSA-78-49
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
  
  The increasing government regulation of automative transportation
  
  industries in the United States has produced the need for
  
  financial and economic studies of the effects of such policies.
  
  The purpose of this document is to survey the effects of pending
  
  regulation upon the corporate financial systems of the domestic
  
  motor vehicle manufacturers. In many respects, this study, or at
  
  least the methods applied in it relates new analysis to the regulatory
  
  process, and borrows from other analyses performed previously.
  
  Because of the complex nature of corporate finances and the
  
  vast array of data available on topics considered in this document,
  
  it is important to emphsize the survey nature of much of this
  
  study. Undoubtedly, certain specific topics do not receive enough
  
  attention, and some vital areas are no-t entirely considered.
  
  For these reasons, it is important to note the primary goals
  
  of this study:
  
  1. To establish the actual financial environment in which
  
  government regulatory spending takes place, and to define
  
  some of the major limits upon this system in order to
  
  help assess the capabilities for future corporate spending
  
  programs,
  
  2. To illustrate that regulatory costing must be performed,
  
  at least on one level, within this corporate context if
  
  it is to more fully measure costs and financial pressures
  
  which are likely to arise in the future,
  
  3. To survey briefly the financial histories of these corporations,
  
  and to measure, in more detail, the corporate
  
  effects and financial risks produced in the new regulatory
  
  environment, and
  
  4 . To provide a survey of some of the most important
  
  corporate-related costs of regulation, and to illustrate
  
  that the corporation can only absorb these costs within
  
  bounds defined by financial performance and legal or
  
  accounting realities.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f15e42d5e8801f8fb6395ae82bfbb294a5997fbf9e15876b42707b692779463d
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11517/dot_11517_DS1.pdf
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