scholarly journals Dividend Policy and Ownership Structure: An Applied Study on Industrial Companies in Amman Stock Exchange

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Al-Nawaiseh
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Dividend Policy ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange

scholarly journals Does Ownership Structure Affect Jordanian Companies’ Tendency to Practice Earnings Management?

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Zeyad Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Institutional Investor ◽  
Managerial Opportunism ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Management Ownership ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange

<p>The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure on a firm’s ability to practice earnings management. To achieve this goal all 77th Jordanian industrial companies listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) for the period 2000-2014 were selected resulting in 1089 firm-year observations. The empirical results suggest that the earnings management practices of Jordanian industrial companies listed at ASE are influenced by the ownership structure.  Precisely, the result shows that equity concentration, management ownership and institutional investor equity are associated inversely with the practices of earnings management. Our results are consistent with the Alignment of Interest Hypothesis and the Efficient Monitoring Hypothesis which suggest that large shareholders have less motivation to manipulate earnings, and can reduce the scope of managerial opportunism.</p>

Ownership Structure and Dividend Policy in Listed Industrial and Consumer Goods Firms in Nigeria: Heckman’s Two-Stage Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-308
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Dividend Policy ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Block Holders

The decision on the magnitude of dividend has been identified to be highly related to the decisions to pay or not to pay dividends in formulating dividend policy. However, literature seems to be homogeneous and focused on examining the effect of ownership structure on dividend level or probability of paying dividends. Therefore, the paper examines the effect of ownership structure on dividend policy using Heckman’s two-stage technique. Utilizing 304 firm-year observations from industrial and consumer goods firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period within 2009-2019, the result shows that in the first stage, only foreign ownership has a negative significant effect on the probability of paying dividends. However, after accounting for a possible correlation between the probability of paying dividends and dividend pay-out, the result on the second stage exhibits a significant negative effect with block-holders and foreign ownerships on dividend policy while institutional ownership reveals a positive significant effect. The overall results show that the lower the foreign ownership the higher the possibility of paying dividends. Also, higher dividend pay-out is associated with the lower level of block-holders and foreign ownerships coupled with higher institutional ownership in listed industrial and consumer goods firms in Nigeria.

scholarly journals The Impact of Cognitive Integration between the Traditional Balanced Scorecard and the Information Technology Balanced Scorecard on the Entrepreneurship Value of the Jordanian Public Shareholding Industrial Companies

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Usama Abdul Moneim ◽  
Ala Jaber Matarneh ◽  
Samer Akour
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Cognitive Integration ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
The Impact

Due to the increased competition between the various industrial companies at the local and international levels, there became a need to adopt modern and effective methods and tools that enable such companies to acquire and maintain competitive advantages that help them choose, apply and assess the strategies adopted. One of the most important tools is the Balanced scorecard according to the leadership concept and the decisions of the COBIT committee; this tool had a great concern and attention by researchers or businessmen; applying it led to a remarkable success in some companies, which made it move from a mere tool of management to an integrated system of strategic management. The method of measuring the balanced scorecard according to the COBIT committee helps the industrial companies’ measure their strategic performance wisely and even goes further in helping formulate the companies' industrial strategies in a pioneer method, translate them into strategic goals, translate these objectives into strategic measurements achieving a follow-up and finally assess the industrial strategy locally and globally. Accordingly, the study aimed at shedding light on the impact of the cognitive integration among the dimensions of the traditional balanced scorecard and the IT balanced scorecard on the Entrepreneurship value in the industrial companies. The study community consisted of all the public shareholding industrial companies listed on Amman Stock Exchange by the end of (2015) amounting to (63) (Annual Report of Amman Stock Exchange, 2016). (56) Companies were randomly selected to form the study sample. One of the most important results of the study is that the effectiveness of measuring the quality of applying the traditional Balanced Scorecard and the IT Balanced Scorecard will create the Entrepreneurship value of the industrial companies, thus contributing to achieving the company's strategic objectives. The study recommended the need that the industrial companies follow up the local and international issues linked with the IT related to applying the balanced scorecard to reach for the institutional leadership with the need that such companies encourage innovation processes, accepting new ideas and motivating employees to provide innovative ideas.

scholarly journals The ability of cash flows to predict the earning: Evidence from Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fawzi Shubita
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Prediction Ability ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
Great Support ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the ability of cash flows components to predict the earning and to know the extent of the relationship between accounting profits and cash flow measures. The study sample consisted of 77 industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange in Jordan for the period from 2006 to 2019. This study relied on the regression method to test the relationship between the study variables. The study findings showed that the cash flows from operating, investing, and financial activities have a statistically significant impact on predicting future earnings. The study also examined the effect of length of operating cycle and company’s size on the predictive ability of cash flows regarding future earnings. The main results for this aspect are that large companies and short operating cycle companies have higher prediction ability for future earnings than small and long operating cycle companies. This paper provides evidence of the information content of cash flows for future earnings in emerging markets like Jordan and is important for Jordanian shareholders by enabling them to evaluate company’s performance. AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Amman Arab University for its great support, and for funding this study.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE IN PROMOTING CONTINUITY - APPLIED STUDY OF A SAMPLE ON LISTED COMPANIES IN IRAQI STOCK EXCHANGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amer Mohamed Salman Al-Janabi ◽  
Hassnain Kadhem Ojah
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Specific Class ◽  
Control Environment ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽  
The Impact

The research aims to diagnose the property structure for a sample of listed companies shares in the Iraq Stock Exchange as well as determining the ability of the property structure in the continuity of the company, as the research problem is the effect of the structure of ownership of the corporate sample study in promoting continuity of companies? The research assumed a significant impact of the structure of ownership in enhancing the continuity of the sample of the research, the research reached that the diversity of the property structure is centralized through it is part of corporate governance mechanisms, as it is responsible for specific policies and decisions, which in turn has a solid control environment As well as the powers of the protection of shareholders, as well as the diversity of ownership structure leads to the protection of the interests of economic unity and the interests of all equity holders through that decisions do not have a specific class interests at the expense of the rest of the stock campaign, as well as non-continuity It is the results of many behaviors and non-right decisions and decisions of the ownership structure. The discovery of those factors and indicators contributes to avoiding non-continuation of the samples of the research sample. Those who have 5% stake through special statements are discriminated with financial reports to clearly identify the diversity of the property structure as well as account monitors should give an indication. The landmarks are clear in their reports and their views are clearly and impressed with regard to the imposition of continuity of economic units listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange.

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