Abstract
Journal of Business & Technology (JBT) is an open-access journal published by the Department of the Commerce and Financial Management of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. The journal follows a double-blind peer-review process and is published bi-annually (January, July). JBT aims to publish scholarly research, critical reviews, case studies, practitioner reviews and technology reviews in the fields of business and technology.
Highlights
Corporate finance involves with 03 fundamental decisions: Investment decisions, Finance decisions and dividend decisions
This suggest that Economic Value Added of the firm could be deviate by +/- 4117.42 which give values between -6,234.36 and 2,000.48
This study investigates the impact of dividend policy on firm performance using both financial and market performance indicators in Sri Lankan context
Summary
Corporate finance involves with 03 fundamental decisions: Investment decisions, Finance decisions and dividend decisions. Dividend decision may arise when the firm begins to generate the profits. Dividend is the benefit to the shareholders in return for their investment and the risk that they bear. It determines how much of the profit should distribute among the investors and how much of profit need to be retain with the entity. Numerous scholars (David,2011; Amollo, 2013; Ajanthan,2013) paid their attention on study of dividend policy because its known as unsolved issue in corporate finance. Brealey (2002) lists dividends as one of the ten important unsolved problems in corporate finance. The profitability is one of the 20 | P a g e important factors that influence the dividend payout, and it has evident that highly profitable firms tend to pay high dividends which lead to high payout ratio (Amidu, 2006)
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