This study examines the effects of the accruals vs. cash flow bases on firm's MB ratio as a proxy for shareholder value. The methodology utilizes the benefits of the ‘partial adjustment model' where it addresses the extent to which the shareholder value adjusts to a target level. The final...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine firms' strategies to change long- and short-term debt financing in Egypt. It aims to examine a list of capital structure determinants that include the basic assumptions of the three well-known theories of capital structure: tradeoff, pecking...

This study examines the informativeness of accounting information to three classes of shareholder value; high, medium and low. The results indicate that shareholder value adjusts positively a target level according to the five categories of financial ratios. This shows a high degree of...

This paper examines the association between firms' debt financing structure and operating performance. The paper focuses on debt as the firms' loans from banks, which is the general trend of debt financing in Egypt. Firms' operating performance is measured by three operating measures. The...