This paper aims to examine the industry effect of limit hits of Tokyo Stock Exchange. The results show evidence of industry effect where information technology companies have the highest limit hits per company and utility companies have the lowest limit hits per company. High limit hit...

This paper examines the capital structure of listed industrial companies in Jordan. Using firm-level panel data, the main leverage ratios and the mean ratios of long term debt to total debt are calculated during the time period 1978-1998. Based on the statistical analysis, it is found that...

The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between working capital management and firm profitability. The analysis based on a sample of 2123 Japanese non-financial firms listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the period 1990-2004. The results suggest that managers can...

In this paper we investigate the relation between the firm's cash conversion cycle and its profitability. This relationship is examined using dynamic panel data analysis for the full sample, by industry and by size. Using a sample of 34771 firm years covering the period 1990-2004, we find a...

Although the operating cycle, the cash conversion cycle, and the net trade cycle are more comprehensive measures of working capital management compared with traditional measures such as the current ratio and the quick ratio, these measures do not consider the optimal points of payables,...

We have worked on this research that could help us to evaluate Nike corporation quickly and going through its annual reports that help the investors to evaluate the company easily and in this research its shows what is Nike organization and the financial ratios that I used to analyze the company...

This paper is implemented to look at the company's activities in general and this paper aims to implement the financial analysis of the data available for Almarai Company specializing in the field of food and dairy derivatives, by calculating liquidity ratios, activity ratios, debt ratios, and...

This study investigates the market reaction to dividend change announcements for the period 1996 to 2002 at Amman Stock Exchange. Event study methodology is applied to examine the significance of mean abnormal return on and around the announcement date, thin, trading model of Scholes and...

This study examines the relationship between working capital management, profitability, firm size and industry type for firms in Japan. The study sample consists of 2123 Japanese non-financial firms listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the period 1990-2004. We observe that the cash conversion...

The primary aim of this paper is to examine characteristics of stocks that hit the limits listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We analyse the characteristics of stocks that hit the limits more frequently, the characteristics of stocks that hit the upper limits and the characteristics of stocks...