This paper attempts to investigate the effects of the internal corporate governance mechanisms represented in (the size of the board of directors, CEO duality, the administrative ownership, and the ownership of Block Shareholders Ownership) on the profitability of the companies listed on the...

Objective - Empirical finance literature has added a new twist to the debt conservatism puzzle within the broader capital structure puzzle, namely the phenomenon of zero leverage. Motivated by Strebulaev and Yang (2013), this study investigates the attributes of zero leverage firms in Nigeria in...

Abstract: In the recent time, the relation between accounting information and stock market value has been an internationally popular subject for research. The important is that value relevance is a measure of investor perception of the reliability of corporate financial accounting information....

This study examined the relationship between dividend policy and performance of selected quoted firms in Nigeria. Dividend policy is challenging for the directors and financial Managers of any company because different investors have different views on present cash dividends and future capital...

This study investigates the impact of leverage on earnings and share price of listed companies on Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka. The study was identified 20 companies listed on the CSE for the period from year 2007/2008 to 2011/2012.The Degree of Operating Leverages (DOL), Degree of...