the capital structure of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their diversification strategy. Both the international market (multi-country operations) and the product (multi-industry operations) dimension of diversification are integrated into the analysis and a switching of regression regimes methodology is employed that accounts for the bi-dimensional nature of the diversification strategy pursued by MNCs. The model identifies four types of diversification regimes. The results suggest that leverage
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The use of earnings forecasts in stock recommendations: Are accurate analysts more consistent?† Andreas Simon Orfalea College of Business California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA (email: ansimon@calpoly.edu) Asher Curtis David Eccles School of Business The University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT (email: asher.curtis@business.utah.edu) This draft: September, 2010. Forthcoming, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. ABSTRACT: We examine how analysts’ conflicting incentives
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selected a sample of 94 Pakistani firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange for a period of 6 years from 1999 – 2004, we have studied the effect of different variables of working capital management including the Average collection period, Inventory turnover in days, Average payment period, Cash conversion cycle and Current ratio on the Net operating profitability of Pakistani firms. Debt ratio, size of the firm (measured in terms of natural logarithm of sales) and financial assets to total assets ratio have
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initial public o!erings (IPOs). We "nd that the price}earnings (P/E), market-to-book, and price-to-sales multiples of comparable "rms have only modest predictive ability without further adjustments. This is largely due to the wide variation of these ratios for young "rms within an industry. P/E multiples using forecasted earnings result in much more accurate valuations than multiples using trailing 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. earnings. JEL classixcation: G24 Keywords: Initial public
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initial public o!erings (IPOs). We "nd that the price}earnings (P/E), market-to-book, and price-to-sales multiples of comparable "rms have only modest predictive ability without further adjustments. This is largely due to the wide variation of these ratios for young "rms within an industry. P/E multiples using forecasted earnings result in much more accurate valuations than multiples using trailing 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. earnings. JEL classixcation: G24 Keywords: Initial public
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Corporate Financial Management and Modeling Paper Data Analysis about 90-day U.S. Treasury Bill Rate and Civilian Employment-Population Ratio 1.1 Abstract This data set contains 132 monthly observations, from January 2002 to December, 2012, using three different rates: three-month Treasury bill rate from the secondary market, the implied three-month forward rate of interest computed by pure expectation, and civilian employment- population ratio. 2.1 Data Description Date is in the format of
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Section 1.1 Building Basic Skills and Vocabulary 1. How is a sample related to a population? A sample is a subset of a population. 3. What is the difference between a parameter and a statistic? A parameter is a numerical description of a population; a statistic is a numerical description of a sample. True or False? In Exercises 5–10, determine whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, rewrite it as a true statement. 5. A statistic is a measure that describes a population
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whether these investors can influence the management decisions of the local firms in developing countries. This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign institutional investors on corporate dividend policy in the Indian stock market. Using sample firms whose ownership by foreign investors was 5% or higher through the fiscal period from 2007 to 2011, we examine whether foreign institutional investors with more than 5% of a company's shares can exert a significant impact on dividends. In addition
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Nepal is one of the leading company is supply of bottlers and also it has better prospect for future profitability. The profitability trend is also good but not up to the market this can be because of lack of competition in the market. The current ratio company seems to be in the growing trend which implies that the firm is able to repay back its debts in time. Somehow, the company faces risk in the overall performance but cannot be considered as a risky business because it is earning a healthy profit
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rate is varied whereas the larger is kept constant. The ratio of the two streams depends upon a controlling parameter that is monitored downstream of the common injection point. Such monitoring can be performed automatically using on-line analytical equipment or manually by collection of samples. The manual collection method can provide a semi-automatic operation at best. The injection rate of the smaller stream is based upon the sample analysis. An improvement in this application would be a ration
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