This study examines the role of board gender diversity in shaping cor‑ porate financial decisions, particularly in terms of debt structure and risk management. Focusing on the Tehran Stock Exchange, it explores how female representation on boards influences long‑term and short‑term...

This paper empirically examines the impact of CEO narcissism on corporate financialization using Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2009-2022. The results find that CEO narcissism leads to corporate financialization, and the promotion is more significant in lower cash flow,...

This study aimed to evaluate the financial performance of tourism companies listed on the Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) using a multi-criteria decision-making method called the Range of Values (ROV) technique. This approach was chosen because it allows multiple financial indicators to be...

Working capital management is an important fnancial management decision for the proftability of commercial banks. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of working capital management on commercial banks' proftability. The study used secondary data from audited fnancial statements of...

Modern-day firms, both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large listed firms (LLFs) practice distinct investment appraisal approaches known as conventional and sophisticated capital budgeting techniques. Despite these prominent developments, the extant literature is yet to empirically...

This report has been drawn up in accordance with Article 63 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on the EU Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) (henceforth, "Eurojust Regulation" or "EJR"), replacing and repealing Council...

This study employs a robust quantitative ex post facto research design to investigate the complex relationship between audit fees and earnings management. The financial information of 164 firms admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) was used from 2010 to 2019 (pre-COVID period) to achieve...

Optimizing up- and downstream working capital interfaces (i.e., by shortening receivable terms, extending payable terms, or reducing inventories) has become increasingly important for companies of all sizes. For small companies, this is the case because they have no or merely limited access to...

We examine how division managers' human capital affects internal capital allocation using a hand-collected data set of divisional managers at S&P 1,500 firms. Based on a novel measure of division-manager ability, we show that more able division managers receive substantially larger capital...

This study aims to investigate the effects of financial bootstrapping and government support on working capital, as well as the moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation towards the impact of working capital on financial performance. The study was conducted on 260 MSME owners in the food...

Adequate enterprise financial risk management (EFRM) represents a leading competitive advantage of enterprises that determines market survival and business success in an uncertain global environment. Over time, EFRM has become a constituent part of integral business dealings of enterprises and...

Purpose - The purpose of the present study is to determine how the cash conversion cycle (CCC) affects the financial performance of manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach - The authors have collected data of 61 Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)-listed firms from the 10...

Fintech companies are relatively young and operate in a rapidly evolving and ever-changing industry, which makes it important to understand how different factors, including shareholder presence in management roles, affect their performance. This study investigates the impact of shareholder...

This study compares the estimation errors of several present value discounting conventions (end-of-year, mid-year, and the more recently proposed harmonic mean convention) for a uniform distribution of intra-period cash flow - continuous and discrete. Our results show that the mid-year...

This article presents the systematic literature review (SLR) of accountability of pondok pesantren (Islamic boarding school). The purpose is to provide a review of the existing literature (theoretical/empirical) on the accountability of pondok pesantren and to analyze the future agenda of...

Exploring the financial behavior traits amidst the unexpected financial challenges and the unparalleled rise in fintech, this study provides insight into the interplay of entrepreneur digital financial literacy (EDFL), entrepreneur financial competency (EFC), and entrepreneur financial skill...

The success of agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises (agri-SMEs), among other factors, heavily relies on their ability to manage finances effectively. This study examined the extent to which agricultural SMEs in Tanzania practice financial management activities. The study employed a...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Decades after the transition processes have spread across Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe (CESEE), the former Soviet Union, and the Baltic, it was interesting to perform the post-transition and...

Optimal financial well-being is a goal for both financial professionals and consumers. The COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns about consumers' financial well-being. This study sought to explore the factors related to financial well-being using the Personal Financial Wellness framework (Joo,...

This study aims to determine how payment disturbances in managers' earlier entrepreneurial practices (PDMs) predict corporate default. Classical financial ratios have often failed to predict the default of micro-, small- and medium-sized firms with high accuracy, and therefore, the extant...

The research objectives is to analyze factors impacting on accounting conservatism such as growth opportunity, return on equity, sales growth, return on assets, capital intensity, investment opportunity, financial distress, financial leverage, global diversification and uncertainty environment....

The research's objective was to develop a thorough model of the viability of SMEs in the V4 countries based on predetermined variables. The following factors were defined: human resources management, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, company digitalisation, environmental...