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Building Persistent Financial Performance
2019
Objective - The purpose of this study is to analyze profit persistence and the factors that influence it using secondary data from 39 banks listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in the form of pooled data, from 2008 to 2014.Methodology/Technique - This study uses a purposive sampling...
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The Impact of Cost Leadership Strategy and Financial Management Control System on Organizational Performance : An Empirical Investigation of Pakistani Service Sector
Hunjra, Ahmed Imran - 2018
The aim of this study is to check the impact of cost leadership strategy and financial management control system on organizational financial performance in Pakistani service sector. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Respondents were the finance managers of banking, insurance, and...
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Why Member Firms Hold More Cash When They Have Access to the Business Group’s Finance Company? Empirical Evidence of Tunneling from China
Peng, Hao - 2019
In China, firms within a business group may be able to access funds provided by a parent-owned finance company within … firms to increase their cash holdings through deposits in the group's finance company and invest the collected deposits in … business group reaps most, if not all, the profits from the finance company, at the expense of member firms' increased holding …
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Zero-Tax Firms
van der Geest, Jesse - 2020
We study profitable firms with no tax expenses. We find that the proportion of profitable firms that owe zero taxes … recent years. Zero-tax firms thus represent a major group of tax avoiders. However, we find that zero-tax firms avoid taxes …
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The role of taxes in the disconnect between corporate performance and economic growth
Khan, Urooj; Nallareddy, Suresh; Rouen, Ethan - 2017
We investigate the relation between corporate performance and overall economic growth in the United States. In particular, we focus on the impact of the U.S. corporate tax regime on this relation. Exploiting time-series variation and a tax shock, we document that the relatively higher corporate...
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Performance of quoted and non-quoted companies in the Europe
Buus, Tomáš - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 3 (2008) 4, pp. 45-69
Using 4-dimensional panel data (time, industry, country, companies) we examine the differences between European quoted and non-quoted companies at the level financial performance and some financial ratios. We find that quoted companies perform significantly better not only in terms of profit,...
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From boardroom to C-suite : why would a company pick a current director as CEO?
Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2017
external candidate, but a current board member as successor. Why would a company make such a decision? In this Closer Look, we … examine this question in detail. We ask: • What does it say about a company’s succession plan when the board appoints a …
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Geographical relationships and CEO compensation contracts
Yu, Junli; Xu, Wei; Zhang, Ping - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 10 (2017) 2, pp. 127-139
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Corporate internet reporting and firm performance : evidence from Malaysia
Sia, Chai J.; Rayenda Brahmana; Memarista, Gesti - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 2, pp. 153-164
on the company’s websites can contribute more value to the firms. Meanwhile, company size does not significantly …, and this will present a better image and reputation of the company’s best practices in financial performance. CIR will … help them to have meaningful investment decisions and persuade them to invest in the company. …
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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