Non-financial reporting is a growing topic, and the adoption of the EU Directive 2014/95/EU on non-financial information (NFI) is increasing the use of this reporting. One of the most distinctive elements of guidelines and standards that are widely used to draw-up reports on NFI is...

The study aims to identify which aspects of financial practices of managers need to be given priority in achieving a turnaround in the financial sustainability of these manufacturing companies across long-term returns, sustainable growth and financial distress. Currently, the Nigerian...

Due to the development of financial markets, products, financial and mathematical models, portfolio selection today represents a comprehensive set of activities. Investors take into consideration many different factors, such as the market factors, return distribution characteristics and...

The reporting of alternative performance measures (APMs) is currently the focus of much debate in the world. In this paper, we analyse APMs basics, e.g. financial statements as the basis for alternative performance measurement. Accounting, with the basic concepts of documentation and...

Aim: The aim of the paper is to assess the usefulness of sectoral means in financial analyses of enterprises. Research methods: The article uses a deductive approach to assess the suitability of sectoral means used in analyses of t financial standing of enterprises. The method of analysis and...

"This book explores the implications of a good corporate governance system after global financial crises. Corporate governance mechanisms may include board and audit committee characteristics, ownership structure, and internal and external auditing."

Purpose of the article: Profitability is one of the most important ratios for performance measurement in any competitive commercial bank and key source to fund future working capital and investments needs. This leads to necessity to investigate topics related to profitability and applicability...

This study is intended to identify the predictors of financial distress for the Pakistani firms. Variables used are the financial ratios representing profitability, liquidity, leverage, and cash flows, as well as two important market factors which are size and idiosyncratic standard deviation of...

Predicting corporate failure is an important problem in management science. This study tests a new method for predicting corporate failure on a sample of Spanish firms. A GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure) strategy is proposed to use a feature selection algorithm to select a...

Foreign subsidiaries, as organization units of a multinational company, are profoundly involved in the value creation process for and within the company. The performance evaluation of foreign subsidiaries is a crucial issue for globally-active companies not only in regard to value creation for...