scholarly journals COMPARING THE VALUE RELEVANCE OF SELECTED ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN CONSOLIDATED AND SEPARATE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: THE CASE OF NIGERIAN LISTED FINANCIAL SERVICE FIRMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 16-32
Author(s):  
Kassim Busari ◽  
Muhammad Mustapha Bagudo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Financial Service Firms

In a company with a group structure, financial information is presented in two folds via consolidated and separate financial statements. The reporting of the similarly classified elements of financial statements arranged side by side in two columns carrying two different figures may be puzzling. Consequently, investors and other financial information users having two different figures available to them need to be guided as to which set(s) of information they need to make predictions and decisions. This study provides evidence about the comparative value relevance of accounting information for consolidated and separate financial statement of listed financial service firms in Nigeria. The study population is the entire listed financial services firms throughout the period of 2014-2018. Accounting information was represented by earnings per share, book value per share, dividend per share, and cash flow per share. These proxies were regressed against the market price per share. Data for accounting information were sourced from the annual reports of sampled firms and market prices from the Nigerian stock exchange factbook. A census sampling was used after a three-point filter was applied to the original population. The results show generally that both consolidated and separate accounting information is value relevant. However, consolidated accounting information is found to be more value relevant than separate accounting information. The study thus recommends the strengthening of firms’ operations, re-evaluation of the dividend policy, and enhanced implementation of IFRS standards to enhance value relevant accounting information that will be useful to the shareholders in making informed decision and taking adequate actions.

scholarly journals Association between Accounting Numbers and Value of Food and Beverages Firms in Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Nyor Terzungwe ◽  
Nasiru Rabiu
Keyword(s):  
Value Relevance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Food And Beverages ◽  
Accounting Numbers

<p>The degree of statistical relationship between the contents of financial statements and market price of equity is what is termed Value relevance of accounting information. It explains stock market measures using financial information variables and it is a very useful guide to investors in pricing of shares. This study examines the extent of association between accounting information variables of earnings, dividend and book value of equity and market value of listed Food and Beverages firms in Nigeria. Data were collected from the published annual reports of the sampled firms and their market values obtained from the official daily list of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) over a period of 10 years (2001-2010). Using multivariate regression as technique for data analysis, the study established that accounting information of Food &amp; Beverages companies in Nigeria is value relevant. Accordingly, the study recommends the use of financial statements figures of Food and Beverages firms for investment decision.</p>

scholarly journals Marketing Islamic Financial Services: A Review, Critique, and Agenda for Future Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intekhab Alam ◽  
Pouya Seifzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Financial Service Firms

Islamic finance has experienced rapid growth globally, surpassing the USD 2 trillion mark in 2017. As a result, the literature related to Islamic finance and banking is rather rich. Despite the richness of the literature, our knowledge of the marketing issues related to Islamic finance is modest and somewhat ambiguous. Therefore, we review several decades of research about the Islamic finance in various parts of the world. We identify and discuss three main research themes that draw on different conceptualization and theoretical lenses. After synthesizing their respective findings, we propose several avenues for future research that integrate these three research themes with the goal of developing a more nuanced understanding of Islamic finance and its marketing. While we believe that our review will mainly serve as a crucial reinvigoration and launch point for future research on Islamic finance marketing, it is also of great practical benefit for policymakers of various countries and especially managers of financial service firms interested in marketing Islamic banking and financial services to their customers.

Consumer financial anxiety

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon S. Johnson ◽  
Mark Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Financial Anxiety ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Service Firms

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how small and medium-sized, regional financial service firms reacted to the financial crisis by helping their customers cope with their heightened state financial anxiety during the Economic Crisis of 2008. It also examines the variety of strategies pursued by these firms to rebuild consumer trust in their brands in the ensuing years. Design/methodology/approach – The authors relied on grounded theory as a methodological approach to understand the unfolding situation of the financial crisis and to inductively develop a framework explaining managers’ experience with consumer financial anxiety and trust. Data collection involved key informant interviews with 20 CEOs and senior marketing and sales professionals of financial service firms in the USA. Findings – The study discloses a desire among many retail financial institutions to re-personalize their relationships with customers following the financial crisis. One motivating factor for this has been a demand by regulators for more evidence that the firm really knows its customers. The paper also found that some managers are ambivalent about mentioning regulatory oversight and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance to customers because it is unclear whether these issues heighten or reduce consumer fears. More research is needed to provide guidance to managers on how mention of regulatory oversight may be used strategically in a crisis. Research limitations/implications – This study was limited to regional financial service firms in the USA with assets of less than$1 billion. The extension of the study to compare other geographical markets or to large financial service firms remains to be done. This investigation could tell us whether consumers now trust regional banks more than they do large national banks, difference in the strategies they employed and whether they resulted in different rates of brand equity recovery. Practical implications – This paper suggests that the 2008 financial crisis may have resulted in permanent changes in consumer attitudes to financial services. As one manager suggested, “consumers have moved from a trust-me phase to a show-me phase.” This implies that financial service managers need to rethink how they build consumer trust. Such managers would do well to consider ways of integrating actions that reinforce the company's integrity and commitment to its customers into different stages of their firms’ relationships with consumers. Social implications – Many small and medium-sized banks are re-embracing community-banking practices including building strong personal relationships with stakeholders after years of underinvesting due to these banks’ pursuit of property development investments. As a result of these developments, a stronger financial services industry could likely emerge. Accordingly, trust for this battered industry among consumers could improve. Originality/value – This paper discuss how the depersonalization of customer interactions by financial services firms through increased use of electronic channels and the use of call centers as primary interaction points may have weakened customer relationships and worsened consumer anxiety during the 2008 financial crisis. Additionally, it discusses both the failure of regulatory oversight and the symbolic effects of the big bank failures and the Madoff scandal in heightening consumer fears. Based on managerial interviews the paper discusses how financial service firms countered consumer anxiety by providing social support to customers, by repersonalizing customer interactions, and by reconnecting with local community values.

Interacting with Muslim customers for new service development in a non-Muslim majority country

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1017-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intekhab Alam
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Financial Service Firms

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of interaction with the Muslim customers in developing new Islamic financial services in a secular and non-Muslim majority emerging country, India. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using a multiple case study methodology in which the service managers of 23 financial service firms and their customers were interviewed. A total of 46 managers and 31 Muslim customers provided data for this paper. Findings A service firm must interact with its Muslim customers to obtain key input and information for developing new Islamic financial services, particularly in a Muslim minority country. The Muslim customers are willing to work with the financial service firms for the purpose of new service development and are a good source of information for new Islamic financial services. Practical implications The paper has implications for the financial service firms interested in achieving growth and prosperity by developing and marketing new services to the growing population of Muslim customers in the emerging markets, particularly India. Originality/value The issue of customer interaction in new service development is a key concept in the extant literature, yet no study has explored this concept for the Islamic banking and financial products in a non-Muslim majority emerging market. This is the first paper that has applied the customer interaction in new service development theory to the interaction process of Muslim customers in a non-Muslim majority country and, thus, addressed a worthwhile research gap.

scholarly journals Identifying Decisive Socio-Political Sustainability Barriers in the Supply Chain of Banking Sector in India: Causality Analysis Using ISM and MICMAC

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Wen-Kuo Chen ◽  
Venkateswarlu Nalluri ◽  
Man-Li Lin ◽  
Ching-Torng Lin
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Matrix Multiplication ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
Political Sustainability ◽  
Improvement Programs ◽  
Financial Service Firms

The banking sector often plays a crucial role in the improvement of infrastructure and economy of any country. In many emerging economies, it is apparent that a wide variety of social and political issues are related to the associated supply chain sustainability of financial service firms. Although such sustainability and its implementation issues have largely been addressed in existing research literature and in practice for many years, the attention towards socio-political sustainability aspects has been quite limited. Thus, this study attempted to explore the determinants for improving socio-political sustainability in financial service firms. Through adopting the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM), performing an exhaustive literature review, and conducting semi-structured interviews with the decision-makers of the service firms, nine key barriers for socio-political sustainability were first identified in this study. Then, the influence relationships of the key barriers were assessed by 15 experts. During the assessment process, the interrelationships and their dependence powers among key barriers were analyzed using the interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach and cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) methods. The assessment results show that among the studied barriers, “antisocial considerations”, “unstable political climate”, and “lack of political coherence” are the decisive barriers that affect the socio-political sustainability in the supply chain of financial service firms. The knowledge in understanding and reducing these decisive barriers can provide service sector practitioners, especially those with limited resources, the enhanced capability to conduct better planning and designing of effective and continuous improvement programs, so as to win over new consumers and retain existing clients by offering sustainable services.

Information Systems Expenditures and Firm Value

2004 ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram S. Sriram ◽  
Gopal V. Krishnan ◽  
Kam-Wah Lai
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Financial Services Sector

This chapter examines the value relevance of disclosures about IT expenditures. Using information about the amount of consulting fees paid to the incumbent auditor by their clients for designing and developing a financial information system (FIS), the study examines whether there is an association between market value of equity and IT expenditures. Since the financial services industry is an intensive user of IT and often relies on IT as a source of competitive advantage, the study uses a sample of firms from the financial services sector. This chapter contributes to our understanding of the importance of disclosures about IT expenditures in assessment of firm value. The results show positive association between investments in IT and market value of equity. Overall, the findings support the notion that investors perceive investments in IT as value-relevant.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document