Higher Financial Performance Research Articles

FINANCIAL FORECASTING AND PLANNING AS A PREREQUISITE FOR MAKING MANAGEMENT DECISIONS

Today, the modern conditions of economic activity constantly require competent financial planning and forecasting of economic activity of the enterprise. In countries with developed market economies, the improvement of tools and methods of financial planning and forecasting is constant and quite significant. Without financial planning, it is impossible to achieve the level of enterprise management, which ensures its market success, continuous improvement of capacity and social development of the team. No other type of planning can have such a general, global significance for the company, as finance covers all parties and areas of its activities without exception. The relevance of this work is to study the construction of plans and forecasts that allow the company to forecast and take into account current and future changes in the external environment, as well as adjust the internal factors of financial and economic activities for their development and further growth. The article examines the historical aspects of the emergence of financial planning and forecasting in enterprises, and defines the essence of planning (forecasting) as a management function. The paper highlights the types and functions of financial planning and forecasting, which significantly helps to understand the meaning of these concepts. The methodological aspects of the organization of financial planning and forecasting at the enterprise in making managerial decisions were also studied and the organizational and economic stages of financial planning and forecasting were determined. It is substantiated that the financial plan development is a logical conclusion of the enterprise business planning process as a whole and makes it possible to assess the net results of its management in the planning period. It is emphasized that the results of the financial plan are necessary to generalize information concerning the sources and time of flow of funds as well as the amount of these flows, their scope, meeting the demand for funds and their availability, as well as possible financial status during and at the end of the planning period. We analyzed the economic efficiency of financial planning and forecasting of the enterprise and highlighted methods for optimizing planning and forecasting in management decisions. It is proved that the company of interest can significantly improve its index number in the coming periods. It is concluded that the stability of the enterprise is achieved by efficient and rhythmic restructuring of the enterprise due to skillful management of the production assets and sources of their formation. Through planning or forecasting the enterprise’s activity is accompanied by optimal solutions and the right company profile, which contributes, to high financial performance.

A Model Examining the Effect of Generative Learning on the Relationship between Diversification and Financial Performance

Organizations are trying to attain and sustain competitive advantage in the highly competitive business world settings. It is argued that one of the strategies to achieve competitive advantage is to form learning organizations. Diversification strategies of organizations are important growth decisions managers need to make. In this paper, organizational learning, learning organization, fundamental diversification strategies and the link between learning and diversification in the literature were discussed shortly. Then, the link between them was revisited considering the literature with a schema. At last, a causal model was introduced. Model suggested that When a company decides to expand its operations by adding new products related to existing product line, with the aim of exploiting its existing knowledge base, this company can reach superior financial performance (financial performance means profitability) through generative learning. When a company decides to grow by adding a new product line irrelevant to existing product lines, with the aim of exploring new knowledge, then through generative learning, this company can introduce or develop new technologies in forms of new products/services, in other words make innovation. Unrelated diversification does not directly provide high financial performance. But gradually, as the innovation gain awareness, it brings in superior financial performance more than related diversification can bring in.

EMPRESAS EXITOSAS Y NO EXITOSAS DEL SECTOR DE PRODUCTOS DE CONSUMO FRECUENTE QUE COTIZAN EN LA BOLSA MEXICANA DE VALORES: UNA CLASIFICACIÓN MEDIANTE ANÁLISIS DISCRIMINANTE MÚLTIPLE

The objective of this article is to determine the financial reasons that discriminate the companies, with a high and low financial performance, of the sector of frequent consumption products that are quoted in the Mexican Stock Market. For this, the financial statements of 16 companies were compiled from 2001 to 2017 on a quarterly basis, with which variables were calculated that include financial ratios of liquidity, indebtedness, leverage, RION, INVESTRAT. For the methodological part, an objective classification based on the cluster analysis is first proposed, and then through the discriminant analysis, concluding that there are 10 financial reasons out of 37 considered in this study, which more contribute to discrimination, being: Current money, Acid test, Leverage, Times that the exchange loss is paid, Operating cash interest, Cash operating at foreign exchange loss, Collection days, Rotation of assets, Net profit margin and Return on equity.

Ethnic Albanian family businesses and COVID-19 pandemic: a gender-based comparison

PurposeThis qualitative research aims to analyze the effects of the global crisis known as COVID-19 in family businesses in North Macedonia and defines the strategies that Albanian entrepreneurs have used to overcome the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose of this study is to conduct a gender comparison between the behaviors of ten men entrepreneurs with ten women entrepreneurs in the city of Skopje. The data we collected by the interview method. The interviews were conducted by phone from June 1 to June 15.FindingsThe results of this research show that women entrepreneurs have overcome the crisis through defensive strategy compared to men entrepreneurs who have used more offensive approach. Due to the pandemic, the majority of women entrepreneurs have lost incomes, labor and clients. Men entrepreneurs have maintained their employees with the minimum salaries, but they have suffered the same loss in the aspect of revenues and clients. Findings show that in the category of women-owned enterprises lower financial results have shown those who operate in the textile industry and beauty salons. In companies with men entrepreneurship, the biggest loss is estimated in the luxury jewelry industry and restaurants, while pharmacies, supermarkets and detergent manufacturing companies proved to be profitable. Even companies that have shown high financial performance have encountered considerable problems in supplying raw materials due to the pandemic. This research will help SMEs in our country with useful suggestions to make the right decisions for the mentioned issue.Research limitations/implicationsThere are some limitations in this study that should be considered a guide for future research. First, this research includes only Albanian entrepreneurs located in the city of Skopje. The investigation will be complete if we add a more significant number of Albanian entrepreneurs from more cities in North Macedonia. Second, considering that this paper's topic is new, we did not have enough literature to compare or enrich the study. Third, due to the current situation caused by the virus, we have faced difficulties in convincing entrepreneurs over the phone to respond in our questionnaires.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a new topic comparing Albanian entrepreneurs' behaviors based on their gender in overcoming the pandemic in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Packages or systems? Working capital management and financial performance among listed U.S. manufacturing firms

This study examines how working capital management packages (WCMPs) can lead to higher financial performance. This is done by exploring the formation, importance, and systematic interdependencies within and between WCMPs. The data set consists of 589 U.S. listed manufacturing firms that are being studied during the fiscal period 2012–2019. WCMPs are studied from both a package and a system approach. This is done by combining fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis and panel data regression. In all, 11 effective WCMPs are found to be associated with high financial performance. Six of them constitute unique and empirically important packages and are also identified as systems. The findings can have consequences for managers and practitioners, as the study creates an explicit link between a firm’s working capital management and financial performance.

The Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance: A Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty

Within recent decades, researches on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been receiving more attention over the world. The existing literature on CSR is very diverse, both in evaluating the performance of CSR activities as well as and the relationship between CSR disclosure and firms’ outcome. This paper extends the literature of the latter case, that is, not only it aims to purely examine the relationship between CSR disclosure activities and corporate financial performance (CFP), but also consider this nexus under economic policy uncertainty (EPU) context. Our primary data is collected from more than 500 listed companies in the Vietnamese stock market from 2013 through 2017, while secondary data (CSR and EPU) are self-calculated under serial criteria. Our results support the hypothesis that the more companies intensively disclose CSR, the higher financial performance (both ROA and Tobin’s Q) they could obtain. More interestingly, we find that while EPU seems to weakly moderate the relationship between CSR disclosure and “internal financial performance” (ROA), it will significantly diminish the effect of CSR toward “external financial performance” (Tobin’s Q). The research shed light on an approach to measure CSR disclosure indexes for the emerging market as in Vietnam. Our findings encourage the firm’s managers to pay more attention to CSR disclosure activities due to the positive benefit that their firm could obtain and suggest policymakers to maintain a stable economic background for a sustainable market.

Financial Performance as Mediator on the Impact of Capital Structure, Wealth Structure, Financial Structure on Stock Price: The Case of The Indonesian Banking Sector

This research examines the financial performance as a mediating variable in analyzing the capital structure, wealth structure, and financial structure of stock prices by using trade-off theory and signaling theory. This study uses 145 secondary data in the form of bank financial reports listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Model testing uses structural equation (SEM) through the SmartPLS version 3.0 programs. The results of model testing show that capital structure and financial structure can reduce financial performance, wealth structure can improve financial performance. High financial performance cannot increase stock prices. The capital structure does not lower the stock price, the wealth structure raises the stock price, and the financial structure lowers the stock price. Financial performance does not mediate the effect of capital structure, wealth structure, and financial structure on stock prices.

Designing Global Sourcing Strategy for Cost Savings and Innovation: A Configurational Approach

Despite the well-acknowledged benefits of global sourcing (e.g., location specific advantage) in the international business literature, research driven mainly by the transaction cost economics and resource based view has cautioned about its potential negative effects (e.g., hidden costs, hollowing out effect) which might offset its potential gain, leading to a failure to achieve expected outcome and capture the value created in global sourcing activities. We argue that this issue is primarily explained by the misalignment between a firm's global sourcing strategy and value expected from its global sourcing activities. This study examines the role of global sourcing strategy on financial and innovation performance of global sourcing activities. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis on 235 firms engaging in global sourcing of business service activities, we identify configurations of global sourcing strategy—concerning (1) disaggregation, (2) dispersion of activities and (3) governance structure—that lead to high financial and innovation performance. The findings suggest that global sourcing strategy leading to high financial performance differs largely from global sourcing strategy leading to high innovation. While most studies selectively focus on one or two components of global sourcing strategy, our study highlights the need for firms to jointly consider the combined effect of degree of disaggregation, degree of dispersion of business service activities and governance structure as well as taking into account the expected outcome when crafting their global sourcing strategy.

Gri ilişkisel analiz yöntemiyle Türkiye’deki devlet üniversitesi hastanelerinin performans değerlendirmesi

Bu çalışma, Türkiye sağlık sisteminde önemli bir yere sahip olan devlet üniversitesi hastanelerinin finansal performanslarını Gri İlişkisel Analiz yöntemi (GİA) ile değerlendirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Sağlık hizmetlerinin sürdürülebilirliği sağlamak için finansal kaynakların etkin şekilde yönetilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu bağlamda, likidite, finansal yapı, devir ve kârlılık oranlarıyla analiz gerçekleştirilmiştir. Otuz iki devlet üniversitesi hastanesi için on finansal oran 2015 yılı itibariyle hesaplanarak analizde kullanılmıştır. Hastanelerin likidite oranları açısından ideal değerlerin altında olduğu, hastanelerin finansal yapısının borçlanma ağırlıklı, özsermayesinin zayıf olduğu ve karlılıkların düşük olduğu tespit edilmiştir. GİA analizi sonucunda, likidite ve karlılık oranları yüksek olan hastanelerin finansal performansının da yüksek olabileceği sonucuna varılmıştır. Ayrıca çalışma sonuçlarına göre finansal per-formansı orta ve düşük seviyede olan hastanelerin karlılık problemi ile karşı karşıya oldukları görülmektedir.

THE INFLUENCE OF BIOLOGICAL ASSET ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES ON THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MODERATING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY

High financial performance is the primary goal of all companies, including agricultural companies. In practice, the impact caused by various problems related to accounting policies of biological assets, principles of good corporate governance, knowledge about renewable energy and size of the company. This study aims to prove empirically whether there is an influence of biological asset accounting policy implications, good corporate governance practices and company size on financial performance along with the moderating role of knowledge about renewable energy in agricultural sector companies. Research data were collected through questionnaire instruments, face-to-face interviews and group discussion forums which were conducted in several places in Indonesia by sampling with non-probability sampling. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results showed that the implications of biological asset accounting policies, good corporate governance practices and company size had positive effects on financial performance and knowledge about renewable energy is playing a moderating role among the links. The plantation and forestry sector which is the unit of analysis is a limitation of this study because the agricultural industry includes not forests and gardens, but livestock and fisheries are also included in those who have biological transformed assets.Keywords: Biological Asset Accounting Policies, Good Corporate Governance, Company Size, Financial Performance, Knowledge about Renewable EnergyJEL Classifications: K32, G30, QDOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10240

Central coordination and profitability in large Latin American business groups

This study analyzes the profitability effects of central coordination in large business groups in Latin America. By adopting a configurational approach, we analyze the profitability implications from a core entity involvement in the areas of strategy definition, talent management, values and culture management, stakeholder management, corporate branding and corporate innovation. Using Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analyses on a sample of 17 of the largest business groups in Latin America, we contribute by identifying core entity’s configurations that are causally linked with business group high financial performance, measured as the highest average ROE between 2014 and 2017. Specifically, we find that business groups with the highest performance include strategy definition, talent management, values and culture management activities as part of their core entity coordination as necessary conditions. We also find that the relevance of the fourth role, stakeholder management, is linked to the macroeconomic conditions of the countries where affiliates operate.

Intellectual Capital Utilization And Intellectual Capital Growth In Improving Current And Future Financial Performance In Asean In The Era Of Asean Economic Community

This paper examines the association between intellectual capital (IC), rate of growth of intellectual capital (ROGIC), and firm financial performance in an emerging market context, which is ASEAN. The effect of Intellectual Capital and the rate of growth of Intellectual capital is tested towards firm financial performance, namely current financial performance and future financial performance. Panel data regression model analysis is used for a sample of manufacturing companies in ASEAN countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore during 2015-2018. The results showed that intellectual capital and ROGIC has a positive effect on firm financial performance, both current and future performance. This result indicates that intellectual capital can generate higher financial performance for the firms, both in the current period and until the future period. A similar result also found in the relationship between ROGIC which is the rate of growth of IC toward firm financial performance. This result implies that firms should utilize and maintain intellectual capital together with maintaining IC growth (ROGIC) to maintain and preserve its performance in the current and future term.

EVALUATION OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE BASE METAL COMPANIES OPERAND IN THE ISTANBUL STOCK EXCHANGE USING AN INTEGRATED MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING MODEL

Son yıllarda Borsa İstanbul’da yer alan sektörler veya endekslerdeki işletmelerle ilgili olarak yapılan performans analizleri hem ilgili firmalara ve sektörlere hem de bu işletmelerle ilgilenen yatırımcılara ve diğer paydaşlara değerli bilgiler ve yorumlar sunmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı Borsa İstanbul’da (BIST) hisseleri işlem gören Ana Metal Sanayinde yer alan 17 işletmenin 2013-2018 tarihleri arasındaki finansal performanslarının analiz edilmesi ve sonuçların karşılaştırılmasıdır. Çalışma kapsamında işletmelerin Bilanço ve Gelir tablolardan elde edilen 13 muhasebe kökenli oran kriteri kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen veriler “Çok Kriterli Karar Verme” (ÇKKV) yöntemlerinden Entropi ve WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product ASsessment) yöntemi ile değerlendirilmiştir. Belirlenen seçim kriterlerinin ağırlıkları Entropi tekniği kullanılarak hesaplanmıştır. Ardından WASPAS yöntemi kullanılarak karar seçeneklerinin göreli önem değerleri hesaplanmış, firmalar her yılın performans değerlerine göre sıralandırılmıştır. Çalışmada seçilen dönemler, kullanılan muhasebe oranları ve hibrid modele göre Ana Metal Sanayindeki 17 işletmenin performans analizi sonucunda, 6 yılın ortalaması olarak ÖZBAL Çelik Boru Sanayi Ticaret ve Taahhüt A.Ş. en iyi şirket olmuştur.

Impact of climate change mitigation policies on corporate financial performance: Evidence‐based on European publicly listed firms

AbstractThis study examines the relationship between climate change and firm performance in the context of European publicly listed companies. We conduct a multivariate regression analysis using Corporate Environmental Performance and Corporate Financial Performance as independent and dependent variables, respectively. A financial statement analysis of European publicly traded firms with high environmental performance shows that they register high corporate financial performance. Environmental performance positively impacts financial performance (β = .013, p‐value < .01). Return on equity (ROE) is positively related to firm size and CE1 (carbon emissions) intensity but negatively linked to CE2, CE1 & 2, and capital intensities. However, return on investment (ROI) is positively correlated with all the control variables, including capital intensity, firm size, and growth. The results confirm that the firm‐wide adoption of environmental practices reduces environmental risks, and thereby lowers production costs and increases profits. These findings can guide policymakers and organizations pursuing climate change mitigation and sustainable business solutions.

C.E.O FINANCIAL LITERACY AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIA: MEDIATING ROLE OF SOURCES OF INVESTMENT DECISIONS

Abstract. The present study attempts to examine the impact of C.E.O Financial Literacy on Corporate financial performance of SMEs through mediating role of sources of investment decisions comprising accounting information, advocate information and neutral information. The primary data has been collected from 301 executives of the SMEs in Indonesia. To examine the impact of incorporated variables on the corporate financial performance, Confirmatory factors analysis and Structural equation modeling approach are incorporated in the study, several tests were applied including descriptive analysis, KMO and Bartlett’s test, rotated component matrix, convergent and discriminant validity. The direct effects indicated that the financial literacy of C.E.O is the significant and positive drivers of corporate financial performance. While the indirect effects show that all incorporated sources of investment decisions significantly mediated the relationship of C.E.O financial literacy and financial performances. It is indicated that accounting information, neutral information and advocate information acts as a significant mediator between financial literacy of C.E.O and corporate financial performance. Also, the study embraces several theoretical, practical and policy-making implications for the financial management practitioners and strategy developers to attain high levels of financial performance and implement informed financial decisions. In the last, various limitations have been given along with the recommendations for in-depth findings by future researchers.

Individually Perceived Stress as a Mediator Between High Accomplishment Work Practices and Firm Performance

This research paper investigates the mediatory effect of Individually Perceived Stress in the direct relationship of high accomplishment work practices and financial performance of Firm. This research narrates different mechanisms and procedure through which work practices enhances firm performance. Cross Sectional research design is opted for data collection purpose. Data is collected from 500 employees of banking industry and analysis of data is done through Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis. The analysis of collected data shows that Individually Perceived Stress significantly affects the direct relationship of High-Performance Work Practices and Firm Financial Performance. Stress changes the direction of implemented practices in opposite direction due to which resultant results doesn’t match with the desired results. This paper contributes to literature by responding to the long waiting call for explaining importance of stress in high performance work practices and firm performance linkage. This paper also strengthens the literature by adding individual effect of four constructs of High Performance Work Practices. Current research also holds important and valuable implications for governing bodies or managing authorities of institutions.

Practical Machine Learning Approach to Capture the Scholar Data Driven Alpha in AI Industry

AI technologies are helping more and more companies leverage their resources to expand business, reach higher financial performance and become more valuable for investors. However, it is difficult to capture and predict the impacts of AI technologies on companies’ stock prices through traditional financial factors. Moreover, common information sources such as company’s earnings calls and news are not enough to quantify and predict the actual AI premium for a certain company. In this paper, we utilize scholar data as alternative data for trading strategy development and propose a practical machine learning approach to quantify the AI premium of a company and capture the scholar data driven alpha in the AI industry. First, we collect the scholar data from the Microsoft Academic Graph database, and conduct feature engineering based on AI publication and patent data, such as conference/journal publication counts, patent counts, fields of studies and paper citations. Second, we apply machine learning algorithms to weight and re-balance stocks using the scholar data and traditional financial factors every month, and construct portfolios using the “buy-and-hold-long only” strategy. Finally, we evaluate our factor and portfolio in terms of factor performance and portfolio’s cumulative return. The proposed scholar data driven approach achieves a cumulative return of 1029.1% during our backtesting period, which significantly outperforms the Nasdaq 100 index’s 529.5% and S&P 500’s 222.6%. The traditional financial factors approach only leads to 776.7%, which indicates that our scholar data driven approach is better at capturing investment alpha in AI industry than traditional financial factors.

Influence of firms’ financial performance on disclosure of sustainability initiatives and assurance of sustainability reports

This study provides a better understanding of the possible influence of firms’ financial performance on the disclosure of sustainability initiatives and assurance of sustainability reports (Perego & Kolk, 2012). The study analyzes the use of Big4 accounting, engineering, and boutique/consultancy firms for assurance of sustainability reports. A total of 2084 sustainability reports from 42 different countries were retrieved from the Global Reporting Initiative and the corresponding financial variables were obtained from the S&P Capital IQ database. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was undertaken to investigate the issue. We hypothesize that companies with higher financial performance will be more likely to choose an assurance provider from the Big4 (Carey, Simnett, & Tanewski, 2000). While we find that higher financial performers are no different from other performers (as proxied by EVA, TEV, or ROS) when it comes to Big4, we do find that engineering firms are approximately seven times more likely to be chosen as an assurance provider, after controlling for other variables (when EVA and TEV (not ROS) is used as a proxy for financial performance). Importantly, the number of employees and being in the manufacturing industry are significantly related to choosing an engineering firm as an assurance provider when EVA or TEV is used as a proxy for financial performance, and significantly related to choosing a boutique/consultancy firm when ROS is used as a proxy for financial performance.

Organized Complexity of Digital Business Strategy: A Configurational Perspective

How should firms configure organizational capabilities to achieve competitive advantage in complex digital environments? To answer this question, we investigate parsimonious configurations for high firm performance in digital environments characterized by organized complexity. We adopt a configurational perspective accompanied by a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to explicate complex nonlinear relationships among key digital and non-digital capabilities in the form of conjunction, equifinality, and asymmetry in producing the outcome. With this approach, we shift attention from individual capabilities to configurations of capabilities to develop a better understanding of the complex role of IT in the digital world. Our analyses, using a rare and unique dataset of 376 observations for organizations in healthcare, education, manufacturing, and service sectors in the United States, reveal three key findings. First, IT-enabled information analytics capability alone is neither necessary nor sufficient in any configuration for high performance; however, it is an important component of the configurations in which it plays multifaceted roles varying from an enabling role in some contexts, to no role or a counterproductive role in other contexts. Second, we document a few parsimonious configurations emergent from complex nonlinear interactions among six organizational capabilities. Interestingly, these configurations often have an isomorphic structure that produces both high financial performance and high customer performance simultaneously. Third, the structures of configurations for high performance differ from those of not-high performance, suggesting an asymmetric view of causality that underpins organizational performance. Together, the findings provide implications for further research on complexity theory in digital business strategy, and for managers to view and redesign digital business strategy as configurations of IT and organizational capabilities.

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures on Financial Performance of Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards primary stakeholders influences the financial performance (FP) of listed manufacturing companies (LMC) in Colombo stock exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka. Data on dependent variable and independent variables was collected from annual reports of thirty listed manufacturing firms for the period of five years. Dependent variable of financial performance was measured by Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) which was calculated from relevant figures which are available in statement of financial position and income statement and accounting notes. Content analytical technique was used to developed content indexes on five stakeholders groups namely Community, Customers, Employees, Environment and Investors based on disclosures which are available in global reporting initiative-G3 guidelines. The regression analysis of the study has found that there is a statistically significant positive association between CSR indexes on stakeholders and FP. The study firmly concluded that higher social responsiveness of listed manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka yielded higher financial performance than the firms which are lower position in term of social responsiveness.