scholarly journals Does CSR Influence Firm Performance Indicators? Evidence from Chinese Pharmaceutical Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minghui Yang ◽  
Paulo Bento ◽  
Ahsan Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

This research is carried out in the backdrop of increasing product quality and environmental degradation scandals associated with Chinese Pharmaceuticals in recent years. We examined the data of 125 Chinese Pharmaceuticals between 2010–2016 to investigate the impact of overall corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance as well as the performance on five unique aspects of CSR such as shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers, environmental practices, and the society to gauge the impact of these individual dimensions on the firm’s financial performance. The Hexun rating system is used to gauge a firm’s CSR performance on various stakeholder dimensions as it is one of the widely accepted CSR measurement criteria in China. The firm performance is measured by Tobin’s Q, return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and earnings per share (EPS) ratios. The outcome of the panel-based regression models reveals that the overall CSR score has a positive and significant influence on a firm’s financial indicators. Moreover, although all the CSR dimensions relate positively to firm performance, the environmental aspect of CSR has the most profound impact on firm performance followed by customers and suppliers, and employees. However, the shareholders and social dimensions have a relatively lesser influence on firm performance. These results imply that Chinese Pharmaceuticals shall further optimize each aspect of CSR performance as it can not only create a favorable brand image for various stakeholders but also results in sustainable financial performance.

Impact of Research and Development on Firm Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimen Ghaffar ◽  
Waseem Ahmed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study has been conducted to see the impact of research and development budget on the performance of the firms. Research and development is an increasingly important concept in order to have success in this era. The paper finds out the relationship between research and development and firm performance. Firm performance is measured through the ratios of return on assets, return on equity and the earnings per share of the firms. The data analyzed by using SPSS. Results confirmed the positive correlation between the dependent and the independent variables. Limitations of the study were shortage of time and studying of a single sector. In future, different other sectors can be studied to see the impact of research and development on their performance.

scholarly journals The Impact of Capital Structure on the Financial Performance of the Jordanian Industrial Companies Listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for the Period 2012-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Shireen Mahmoud AlAli
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capital Structure

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of the capital structure as a percentage of total liabilities to total assets on the financial performance of the Jordanian industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange for the period 2012-2015.The study population included all the Jordanian general industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The sample of the study included 10 industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The linear regression analysis was used to test the relationship between variables using the ordinary least squares method (OLS).The results showed that there is a positive significant impact on the capital structure of the industrial shareholding companies listed in the Amman Stock Exchange as measured by the ratio of equity to total assets, return on equity and return on assets and net earnings per share as an indicator of financial performance.The results also showed a negative significant impact on the capital structure of industrial shareholding companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange as measured by total liabilities to total assets, return on equity and return on assets as an indicator of financial performance, and net earnings per share as an indicator of the financial performance indicators.

scholarly journals Relationship between Company Financial Performance, Characteristic and Environmental Disclosure of ASX Listed Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 10024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahyuningrum Indah Fajarini Sri ◽  
Budihardjo Mochamad Arief
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Disclosure ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Corporate Social Disclosure ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Corporate Social

The study expects to find positive relations between company financial performance, company characteristics, auditing firm, and the extent of company environmental disclosure. The sample data used in this study is 200 largest Australian listed companies (ASX) in 2014. In order to explain the corporate social responsibility practices in Australian companies, this study used stakeholder and legitimacy theories. The measurement of company environmental disclosure in this study involves nine indicators of environmental disclosure index based on Environmental Social and Governance (ESG). More specifically, the statistical analysis indicates that earnings per share, return on equity, type of company, size of company, age of company, and auditing firm positively influence the company environmental disclosure. On the other hand, the results showed that return on assets has no relationship with company environmental disclosure. Overall, this study has added some information about corporate social disclosure studies focused on environmental disclosure of largest Australian companies.

scholarly journals Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Romania Versus Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena J. Schank ◽  
Aurora Murgea ◽  
Cosmin Enache
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract A consistent body of research is dedicated to the relationship between the ownership structure of a firm and its financial performance. Despite that, the hitherto researches fail to reach a consensus regarding this issue since both negative and positive relationships have been found out. This paper examines the impact of ownership’s type (more precise the impact of the family ownership) on the firm’s financial performance. The analysis includes a comparison between family and non-family firm performance using a sample of 1,161 Romanian companies and 1,342 German companies for a time frame that range between 2008 to 2015. Based on different types of static panel data regressions: Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effects (FE), Random Effects (RE) and a corrective model (PCSE), the main findings show very different results for the two considered countries. Financial performance, expressed as return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) seems to be insensitive to family ownership in Romanian companies and statistically positively correlated with it for German ones. A potential explanation for these outputs consists in the different development circumstances in the two countries in the period that forego the Second War. At the same time, other variables considered do not show significant differences in outcome between the two countries: size, age, capital intensity and leverage negatively influence the financial performance of companies.

scholarly journals Sustainability Reporting and Financial Performance of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. p68
Author(s):  
Okolie, O. Augustine ◽  
Igaga, A. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Earnings Per Share

This study examines how sustainability reporting is useful for assessing the financial performance of listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. Specifically, the study focuses on the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability reporting using “Return on Assets”, “Return on Equity” and “Earnings per Share” as proxies for financial performance of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria from 2012 to 2018. The sample of the study was restricted to seventeen deposit money banks out of twenty one Banks quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as at December, 2018. The required data were collected from audited annual financial statements and “sustainability reports” of the selected Deposit Money Banks for the period. A detailed analysis of the three bottom lines of profit (economic), people (social) and planet (environmental) impact was conducted. The descriptive and least squares regression analysis were adopted for the study considering the banks’ sustainability reporting practices against the selected performance proxies. The study concludes that sustainability reporting practices of Banks in Nigeria have substantial impacts on the financial performances of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The study recommends that enabling legislations should be put in place to mandate enhanced sustainability practices among all deposit money banks in Nigeria as well as facilitate meaningful evaluation and measurement of earnings, social and environmental impacts in all areas of bank operations in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Liquidity Management and Banks Financial Performance in Kuwait

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Musaed Sulaiman AlAli
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Kuwait Stock Exchange ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Bank liquidity plays an important role in determining the bank’s financial performance. This study examines the impact of liquidity on the financial performance of ten Kuwaiti banks, whose shares are listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in the period 2010-2018. The article is based on the analysis of return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) as indicators of the bank’s financial efficiency in comparison with the five liquidity ratios. The results of the study showed a statistically significant direct relationship between ROA and the ratio of loans to total assets, the ratio of loans and deposits and the ratio of the financing deficit to total assets. According to the results of the calculations, a statistically significant inverse relationship between the ROA of liquid assets and the total assets and the ratio of liquid assets and deposits. The determination of return on equity (ROE) showed their statistically significant feedback only on liquid assets and deposits, while a significant direct relationship with the ratio of loans to total assets, the ratio of loans to deposits and the deficit of funding to the total assets. The results of this study provide an explanation of the contradictory results presented in the literature on the impact of liquidity on the financial results of banks. They found that the direction of the relationship depended on which financial ratio was used to explain the relationship (in this study, two ratios showed feedback, while the other three showed a direct ratio). The lack of a universal liquidity ratio will eventually lead to conflicting results. Keywords: liquidity, financial indicators, financial results, Kuwait banks, Kuwait Stock Exchange.

scholarly journals How Does Debt Financing Affect Financial Performance? A Study of Transport Companies Listed in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulfat Abbas ◽  
Sohail Aziz ◽  
Samina Khan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Retained Earnings

  Purpose: The purpose of this paper investigates the impact of debt financing on airline’s (transport) sector performance of Pakistan. Design/Methodology/Approach: We gathered the data from secondary sources. In this study, we used a data sample of 11 years from 2008-2018 by using companies annual reports. Due to unavailability of data, only 3 transport companies have been taken for analysis. The software which we used in analysis is SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science). Findings: The findings of the study suggests that there is opposite relationship between debt financing and financial performance of airlines. Debt is measured from three ratios, short term debt to total assets, long term debt to total assets and total debt to total assets ratio. For the measurement of performance, we used return on assets and earnings per share. We concluded on the basis of findings that the companies should focus on retained earnings which is cheaper source of finance and use less level of debt. As the more level of debt use by the companies, the performance of companies’ decrease. Implications/Originality/Value: There is only one study is available in Pakistan which used transport sector in Pakistan in debt financing context                                                          

scholarly journals The Impact of Political Connections on the Performance and Solvency of Canadian Financial Institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Saidatou Dicko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
The Impact

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">This article’s main goal is to analyze the impact of political connections on the financial performance of Canadian financial institutions. Data on Canadian financial institutions from the S&amp;P/TSX Composite Index over a five-year period was analyzed, and the results demonstrate that contrary to previous studies on companies in other industries, political connections had a negative influence on solvency, return on assets and return on equity for these Canadian financial institutions. Only the market-to-book ratio was positively and significantly influenced by political connections.</p>

scholarly journals Debt Financing and Firm Performance: Evidence from an Emerging South-Asian Country

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mazibar Rahman ◽  
Umme Khadija Kakuli ◽  
Shahnaz Parvin ◽  
Ayrin Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Firm Financial Performance ◽  
Total Debt

This paper aims to empirically investigate the impact of capital structure choice on the firm performance of the firms listed under the Dhaka Stock Exchange of Bangladesh. Multiple regression has been employed in this research to determine the relationship between the capital structure and the firm’s financial performance. Three ratios of financial performance, i.e., return on assets, return on equity, and gross margin, have been used as a sample of non-financial Bangladeshi companies, selected from 2010 to 2015. The study records numerous findings. First, the result shows a significant negative influence of long-term debt (LTD) and total debt (TTD) on firm financial performance measured by return on assets (ROA), but no significant relationship is found between short-term debt (STD) and this measure of firm’s financial performance. Moreover, the research found that there is no significant effect of short-term debt, long-term debt and total debt on the firm financial performance measured by return on equity (ROE). Finally, the result shows that a significant negative influence of short-term debt and total debt on firm performance measured by GM, but no significant relationship was found between long-term debt and financial performance. In general terms, the results of this study may suggest that capital structure has a negative influence on firms’ financial performance in Bangladesh.

Can Capital Structure Affect the Financial Performance of Banks in Turkey?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merve Tuncay
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Asset Quality ◽  
The Capital Structure

<p>The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of banks’ financial performance in terms of the capital structure. Annual financial statements of 11 banks traded in Borsa Istanbul are employed for the period of 2006-2016. Return on assets, return on equity and earnings per share are chosen for financial performance measures. The independent variables related to the capital structure are capital adequacy, equity-to-asset, and financial leverage ratios. In addition, macroeconomic variables and bank-specific variables are also considered as control variables for the analysis. The data are analyzed by the panel data regression analysis as it provides more informative finding and less multicollinearity among variables than time series and cross-sectional analyzes.</p><p>The Hausman test results indicate that the random effects model is appropriate for the whole dependent variables. According to the findings; while equity-to-asset ratio affects return on assets positively, amongst the control variables specific to firms, firm size, asset quality and asset growth variables have significant effects on return on assets. It is found no significant effect of independent variables on return on equity, however, it is seen that asset quality has a negative and significant effect. Inflation and interest rates have a significant effect on both variables. Finally, it is seen that equity-to-asset ratio has a positive and significant effect on earnings per share. Only the effect of asset quality on earnings per share is found to be significant among the control variables. Findings of the study are consistent with the previous studies. In addition, the M&amp;M views are not supported by the findings related to return on assets and earnings per share but the return on equity.</p>

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