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Jun 13, 2025Open Access
This study examines the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors on sovereign credit ratings in Sub-Saharan African countries using LASSO and Random Forest models. Sovereign credit ratings, issued by major rating agencies, play a crucial role in determining a country’s borrowing costs and investment attractiveness. Traditionally, these ratings have been influenced by macroeconomic factors; however, recent trends suggest that ESG considerations are becoming increasingly relev...
Feb 06, 2025Open Access
The research investigates the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on financial reporting quality (FRQ) in Egyptian firms. The study sample includes 68 nonfinancial firms obtained from the top 100 most active firms listed in Egyptian stock exchange (EGX). Secondary data was obtained from both the annual reports of Egyptian firms and sourced from Refinitiv Eikon Datastream for a 9-year period from 2014 to 2022. Using random effects multiple regression, findings reflect that not all corporate...
Jul 31, 2024Open Access
The study sought to examine the effect of Cash Management (CASH), Inventory Management (INV), Receivables Management (REC), and Payables Management (PAY) Practices on the Performance (PERF) of SMEs in the Efuttu municipality. The inquiry used an explanatory design and quantitative approach. By employing a purposive sampling technique to draw 130 SMEs and a Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling approach, the results indicated that all the short-term financial management practices ha...
Jun 01, 2023Open Access
The Corporate Governance practice has been in existence but became topical and the focus of research interest with the collapse of organizations such as Enron, Parmalat, Tyco, WorldCom, Barings, Volkswagen, and Lehman Brothers. The collapse of these organizations brought waves of panic to shareholders, stakeholders, and governments, which resulted in the establishment of well-developed corporate codes of governance in Europe and the United States of America (USA). But this has not been the case ...
Oct 28, 2021Open Access
During the period 2012-2018, nine Ghanaian banks went bankrupt, causing depositors and shareholders to lose billions of Ghana Cedis. This development stunned the whole Ghanaian community, as many had not anticipated the occurrence of a banking crisis of that magnitude, since most of these banks were renowned indigenous banks. One of the fundamental causes of these banks’ failure was a lack of sound corporate governance practices. In this regard, the current study attempts to focus on one of the ...
Nov 28, 2019Open Access
Effective planning, scheduling, and synchronization of all production activ-ities are the key responsibilities of the management of a manufacturing plant. Therefore, it is necessary for the management of the plant to design the production process so that the total production cost is minimized, subject to the available resources that cannot be compromised. In this study, a biscuit manufacturing plant is selected and an integer line ...
Jul 22, 2019Open Access
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the stock market has experienced many outbreaks of bull market, and stocks have gradually entered the public’s field of vision from a small investment field. In the era of big data, how can investors make correct information from a large amount of in-formation? The choice becomes the most critical issue. This paper selects 17 listed companies in the coal industry in 2018 as th ...
Apr 16, 2019Open Access
Purpose This research aims to compare the effect of board of directors’ characteristics on the firm’s value in Egypt as an emerging country and USA as a developed country. Five characteristics have been exposed from the literature review that may influence the enhancement of a firm’s value. In corporate governance, these characteristics are CEO duality, board independence, board size, board meetings and gender diversity. Design Th ...
Nov 23, 2018Open Access
By using the data of 2014 and 2015 about the 90 small and medium-sized en-terprises credit default and normal samples from a joint-stock commercial bank, this paper builds the credit risk assessment evaluation index system to the small and medium-sized enterprise of commercial bank. Based on the logit model, we make a test for the 30 enterprises of the testing samples. Finally, the evaluation model draws that the predicted probabi ...
Oct 24, 2018Open Access
China’s green finance is gradually developing and prospering under the impetus of the government. Green credit is one of the main manifestations of green finance, whose goal is to adjust the bank’s credit structure. Its main audience is environmentally friendly SMEs. Many scholars have studied the changes and potential risks that green credit may bring to bank performance, but only a small number of pe ...
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