Effective working capital management assists a firm in achieving improved liquidity through the management of the components of receivables, inventory and payables. Previous studies have established that changes in working capital have a strong positive correlation to profitability and that...

Capital budgeting decisions are of paramount importance in production economics and, in particular, in manufacturing: investors direct their funds towards firms that create value and withdraw funds from companies which destroy value. Unfortunately, a disparate class of metrics and criteria is...

A number of studies have examined the change over time in the information content of accounting numbers to stockholders. However, the stockholders' perspective is not necessarily identical to that of debt holders. The two groups face different risks and rewards, and thus their informational...

In the strategic discipline, resourced based view is widely accepted to explain the source of competitive advantage, it notes that the success of a company lies in the heterogeneity of the internal means are there to carry out their activity. The intangible resources have greater strategic...

This paper examines the relationship between debt contracts and state contract law. We first develop an index to evaluate whether each state's law is favorable or unfavorable to lenders. We then analyze how the contract terms, the frequency of covenant violations, and the repercussions of...

If managers are risk-averse and compensation schemes are not directly linked to shareholder wealth, incentives to allocate effort to manage effects of relative and macroeconomic shocks may be distorted. In this paper we develop a simple model to identify factors that determine the optimal...

Turkish Abstract: Yapılan bu çalışmada, işletmelerin yaptıkları pazarlama giderleri ile işletmelerin performansları arasındaki ilişkinin ve performansı etkileyen diğer faktörlere kıyasla etkinlik gücünün incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bunun içinde, performans göstergesi net...

The article discusses the history and logic of the development of the concept of economic profit. Historically, the understanding the essence of the residual income of the business depends on the level of development of the systemic organization of economy. Complication of systemic mechanisms of...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of financial factors on earnings management and earnings quality. Moreover, the study examines the role of earnings management as a mediator in the effect of the financial factors on earnings quality. It provides some empirical evidences from an...