The study analyses the type and extend of web based corporate disclosure by banks, types of products offered by banks and examining the relationship of diclosures with company charateristics. The results reveal that internet banking disclosures of private sector banks are better than public...

Internet being the fastest mode of communication has the widest reach in the present world of globalised economies. Recently the companies have started reporting their financial results and other information relating to business on their websites. Almost every company today maintains its...

Banks are the backbone of any financial system. With the liberalization of economy and increased global competition many new private and foreign players have entered the Indian banking sector. Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of the banking system. With the introduction of...

Derivatives Market has an important role to play in the economic development of a country. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of financial derivatives (futures and options) on the underlying market volatility. The paper also analyses the perception of investor about objectives...

Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been newly introduced in India. Not only will GST help India to adjust with the global taxation system, but it will also help the Government of India to increase its Tax to GDP ratio. The main objective of the study is to understand the GST launched by the...

The present study on Web-based Corporate Reporting Practices in India examines the disclosures of financial and non-financial information disclosures on websites of companies. For the purpose of this study, a sample of 200 companies of BSE-200 Index has been taken. A worksheet has been prepared...

Investor behavior influences financial environment of a country. Risk and Return expectation of investors depend upon various demographic factors. This study tries to establish relationship between demographic attributes like age, gender, spiritual orientation of investor and his investment...

The paper examines the extent of awareness among industrial workers of Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948. The study is based on a sample of 103 workers taken from districts of Gurgaon and Faridabad of the State of Haryana. The analysis reveals that awareness of different provision of Act has...

The present paper is an attempt to examine the determinants of dividend policy of Indian corporate sector for a duration of 12 years from 2002-03 to 2013-14. The sample contains 200 companies out of listed companies in the BSE-500 index at Bombay Stock Exchange which paid dividend for at least...

The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the Indian general insurance companies and to find out the reason for their inefficiency. The paper intends to rank these companies on the basis of their efficiency. 12 general insurers are studied using Data Envelopment Analysis...