Abstract
Do good corporate governance practices affect the amount of intermediated debt used by corporations and their dividend payout decisions? This study addresses the direct effects of corporate governance practices on both the indebtedness and the dividend pay-outs in corporations listed on the Bratislava Stock Exchange in 2015–2017 in Slovakia. Because of the relatively weakly developed stock market, the hypothesis is set only to found whenever there is a correlation between those variables. For analyzing the data, Spearman’s rank correlation was used because of the absence of normal distribution. Furthermore, authors adjusted the data set specifically in both cases to reflect more precisely the situation and increase the significance of the models. The most important result of this paper is the finding that the application of the corporate governance principles affects financial decisions of companies. There is a correlation between the responsible application of corporate governance principles and the total debt of companies. Also, there is a correlation between the responsible application of corporate governance principles and the amount of dividends paid to shareholders.
Highlights
The term corporate governance and its everyday usage is a new phenomenon that appeared in the last decades
Do good corporate governance practices affect the amount of intermediated debt used by corporations and their dividend payout decisions? This study addresses the direct effects of corporate governance practices on both the indebtedness and the dividend pay-outs in corporations listed on the Bratislava Stock Exchange in 2015–2017 in Slovakia
We examined how corporate governance can influence the debt and dividend policies, since, different companies have different level of corporate governance practices
Summary
The term corporate governance and its everyday usage is a new phenomenon that appeared in the last decades. Good corporate governance practices became undoubtedly very important in terms of financial decision making, and corporate performance, social responsibility, the economy as a whole, corporate management’s areas and many others. Musa et al (2018) present the following positive impacts of good corporate governance practices on the corporate management’s areas:. The relationship between corporate governance and its role in financial decision making is widely researched by many authors. The aim of the paper is to find out whenever there is a correlation between corporate governance and financial decision making processes as debt and dividend policies.
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