Efficiency generally translates to better financial performance and profitability and, thus, is often taken into account when analyzing activity of the banking sector. The sustainability approach adds social and environmental effects to the economic ones. Even though there have been studies on...

Credit-risk models that are designed for general application across sectors may not be suitable for the construction industry, which has unique characteristics and financial risks that require specialised modelling approaches. Moreover, advanced bankruptcy-prediction models are often used to...

Purpose - The study seeks to find the effect of financial leverage on the firm performance of non-financial companies listed in the Tokyo stock market. Design/methodology/approach - The study collected data from 263 companies in the automobile and industrial producer sectors listed on the Tokyo...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of financial performance on the tone used in the chief executive officer (CEO) statements of South Africa's (SA) top 40 JSE-listed companies in the 2021 financial year. This study implements the quantile regression analysis and the generalized...

This research aims to investigate the impact of the current ratio (CR), debt to asset ratio DA), and return on assets (ROA) on financial distress. The measure of financial distress level is the Altman Z-score index. The sampling technique in studies is purposive sampling. The sample is 16...

The purpose of this study was to develop a new bankruptcy prediction framework that considers a wider range of factors beyond traditional financial ratios and improve the efficiency and accuracy of bankruptcy prediction models in the Indian ecosystem. The financial statements of three Indian...

Purpose: In this paper we try to explain US stock market variations and cash flow fundamentals by employing three different book-valued based ratios, First, we explore the explanatory capacity of the simple book-market ratio on time-varying expected returns, and procced on altering its...

This study attempts to predict high growth firm (HGF) status with financial ratios. Measures related to the firm's effectiveness in using assets to generate profits, EBITDA margin, debt ratio, equity-to-debt ratio and return on assets are associated with HGF status. While the financial ratios...

In 2021, the profit of the banking sector hit a record Rb2.4 trillion. The achievement of this high indicator was influenced by several factors: the aggressive banks’ policy in the credit market; reduction of provisioning costs due to a low share of overdue loans; growth of commission income...

Purpose - This paper considers zakat (Islamic tax) as an alternative indicator to measure the performance of Islamic banks (IBs). It aims to examine whether zakat ratios can be used as Islamic performance (ISPER) indicators for IBs besides the conventional performance (COPER) indicators....

This paper investigates the performance of Erbil Bank for Investment and Finance for the period 2011-2014. Financial ratios are employed to measure the profitability, liquidity and credit quality performance. Several financial performance parameters are used such as financial ratios analysis...

Purpose - the study has a dual purpose. First, to assess the impact of the most important determinants of financial performance, which have been measured through four generations of indicators. In addition, the study provides the first quantification of interdependencies between different...

Every country with a well-developed transportation network has a well-developed economy. The automobile industry is a critical engine of the nation's economic development. The automobile industry has significant backward and forward links with every area of the economy, as well as a strong and...

This time is different. This time the death of another Black man at the hands of white police officers prompted calls for change not only within police departments, but across all aspects of American life. Those calls for change resulted in significant displays of support for the Black Lives...

Woolworth Group consists of mainly three-core business, which is Woolworth food group, Endeavour Drinks and Portfolio Business that is listed on Australian stock exchange and S&P. This report consists of overall financial review of the company. The report summarises the company financial data...

Purpose: Ayurveda which is one of the oldest healing sciences is considered a holistic healing system. In Sanskrit, the word ‘Ayurveda’ means ‘The Science of Life.’ The knowledge of Ayurveda originated in India over a period of more than 5000 years. It is also called as “mother of all...

Predicting crude oil prices is an important yet challenging forecasting problem due to various influencing quantitative and qualitative factors. To address the growing number of potential prediction models and model parameters that researchers and practitioners need to consider during model...

Economic, social and governance (ESG) have become topical subjects amidst the deleterious effects of climate change, inequality and similar pressing challenges facing the people and the planet. The main objective of this study was to rank the importance of both the pillars within the ESG model...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the best predictor of firm performance among different proxies. A sample of 287 Czech firms was taken from automobile, construction, and manufacturing sectors. Panel data of the firms was acquired from the Albertina database for the time period...

Systematic risk cannot be controlled by business managers and cannot be eliminated by portfolio diversification. Factors related to the systematic risk may be interest rate, inflation, exchange rate, market risk, and politics. Systematic risk may also mean the magnitude of the correlation...

Performance evaluation is an art through which one can learn about the efficiency achieved in the working of a particular organization. As regards performance evaluation of an organization, there are various measures to analyze performance of any organization. These measures are broadly...

In this study we provide a practical framework and methodology for analyzing the effects of banking shocks (economic or financial in nature) on bank fundamentals, that avoids the use of complicated econometrics methods. For this, we focus our attention to the effects of the 2007-2008 global...

Financial variables such as cash flow and cash stocks are robust and quantitatively important explanatory variables for investment at the firm-level. A large body of recent empirical work attributes these findings to capital market imperfections. This interpretation is controversial, however,...

Social enterprises have become a natural part of the economy. Their importance is significantly increasing, as well as the need to evaluate their performance. There are different points of view on the indicators and methods used to evaluate their performance and they often lack simplicity and...

A healthy bank sector is critical to an economy's stability. This is illustrated by most countries' concentration on macroeconomic policies affecting the banking industry. In 2017, the Ghanaian bank industry underwent a clean-up exercise to rehabilitate the industry's impaired operating...

While traditional predictive regressions for stock returns using financial ratios are empirically proven to be valuable at long-term horizons, evidence of predictability at few-month horizons is still weak. In this paper, based on the empirical regularity of a typical dynamic of stock returns...

In order to investigate the economic performance of business processes, simulations are performed. These simulations determine values of key performance indicators (KPIs ). We sought a valid solution to integrate KPIs in our Process Analysis Studio (PAS). Our investigation aims for a concept...