Linking Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting With the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The approval of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within the 2030 United Nations Agenda represents a historic mark for sustainable development, allowing to companies to seek solutions that add value and solve the greatest global challenges, by linking organizational strategies and global priorities. Thus, listed companies will need to be able to assess their impact on the SDGs and review their strategies accordingly. Therefore, reporting can play a key role by informing the progress of listed companies in alignment with the SDGs. This article aims to analyse how Portuguese listed company reporting includes their contributions toward the SDGs. The study methodology is based on content analysis of the sustainability reports (SR) and non-financial statements (NFS) published in 2017, seeking to characterize the Portuguese listed companies that are concerned with SDG-related disclosure. The results indicate that from a sample of 46 listed companies, only 12 published SR or NFS, but 9 companies made the alignment with the UN goals.

Retired Government Officials On The Board Of Commissioners And Tax Aggressiveness In Indonesia

This study aims to determine the effect of retired government officials on board of commissioners on corporate tax aggressiveness. The presence of retired government officials on board of commissioners is assessed by categorizing companies into three groups: the company without any retired government officials on board of commissioners, the c[1]ompany with one retired government official on board of commissioners, and the company with more than one retired government officials on board of commissioners. Corporate tax aggressiveness is measured using effective tax rate (ETR). The analysis is conducted on 441 observation data generated using purposive sampling for all the listed company on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period of 2014 to 2016. The results reveal that relative to there being one retired government official on the board of commissioners, greater than one retired government official presence on the board of commisioners does not reduces corporate tax aggressiveness

Assessment of the Mandatory Non-Financial Reporting of Romanian Companies in the Circular Economy Context

Between the circular economy and corporate social responsibility, there is an ever-closer connection. Non-financial reporting of social responsibility actions is based on the circular economy concept, so reporting contributes to increasing the level of disclosure of circular strategies. In this context, large companies are required to report non-financial information to understand their activities better. The paper’s objective is to assess the mandatory non-financial reporting of Romanian companies active in the non-financial sector for 2017–2019. The empirical analysis consisted of creating and awarding an evaluation score to the reports of the companies. An econometric model was tested using a feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) regression to identify the link of the obtained Score with a series of variables representing the characteristics of the companies: Information on a website (I), Foreign ownership (F), Private ownership (P), Listed company (L), Return on assets (ROA), and Return on equity (ROE). Research results highlight a positive correlation between Score and all variables statistically significant in the model. Our study empirically validated the link between non-financial reporting and financial performance. The practical implications for managers can be to focus on improving the quality of non-financial reporting by better presenting the sustainability actions in a circular economy context.

Research on the Effect of Executives as Audit Committee Members on Internal Control Weakness

The Audit Committee is a specialized agency under the Board of Directors, and supervising the company's internal control is one of its duties. This article takes the 2012-2017 Shanghai-Shenzhen A-share non-financial listed company as a research sample, focusing on the chairmen, CEOs, CFOs, board secretaries and executive directors other than the CEO, discussing the impact of their concurrent appointment as audit committee members on the arising, correction and repair of internal control weakness in listed companies. The study found that different types of executives who are concurrently members of the audit committee would lead the internal control weakness to different directions. In general, excluding some less significant results, executives concurrently serve as members of the audit committee could stimulate the arising of internal control weakness and promote the correction and repair of the existing internal control weakness of the listed company. This indicates that when a listed company does not have internal control weakness, its executive layer intervention will weaken the effectiveness of the audit committee's governance and induce the arising of internal control weakness. Conversely, when the company inherently has internal control weakness, the intervention will strengthen the effectiveness of the audit committee's governance, making the audit committee more effective in monitoring internal control weakness. In addition, an important finding is that the existence of the Secretary of the board among the members of the audit committee will limit the chairs’ role in promoting internal control deficiencies.

Application of Data Envelopment Analysis Method Based on E-commerce Internet Supply Chain Management

Objectives: The department mainly studies the application of data envelopment analysis method based on e-commerce Internet supply chain management in China’s economic management. Methods: Taking the number of state-owned shares of the listed company and the size of the company as external environmental factors, firstly, the three-stage data packet analysis (DEA) is used to measure the operational efficiency of 312 e-commerce companies, thus a DEA model is established. Results: Secondly, the DEA projection analysis is used to quantify the output of the inefficient company, and the improvement plan of the company’s factor input is proposed according to the size of the projection value. Conclusion: Finally, the sample is selected for empirical analysis. The results show that projection analysis can effectively improve the economic operation efficiency of enterprises.

DETERMINANTS OF FIRM VALUE ON CONSUMPTION SECTOR IN INDONESIA

Abstract- The purpose of study is to understand the dominan determinants factor which is debt to asset ratio, current ratio, dividend payout ratio and firm size that will influence the firm value in consumer goods companies in Indonesia. To able to maintain dan increase the Indonesia economic growth, Investment and consumption are two main contributor to sustainable economic growth in Indonesia. The study seek for more understanding the determinant that influence the firm value that could support investor decision in consumer goods The study seek for relationship between determinants to predict firm value in the consumption industry which previously done in other sector with inconclusive result. The sample used in this research came from the financial report of 10 of 50 public listed company in IDX between 2013-2017 has high credibility and stability with purposive sampling. The Multiple Regression of modeling are used to analyze the relationship between determinants. The debt to asset ratio, current ratio, and firm size are affect the firm size significantly except for the devident payout ratio, with debt to asset ratio with the most effecting factor. DAR can reflect how financially stable a company is. The higher the ratio, the higher the degree of leverage and, consequently, the higher the risk of investing in that company. Keywords: Firm Size; Consumer Goods; Debt to Asset Ratio; Current Ratio; Firm Size; Dividend Payout Ratio

A Study on Regional Financial Risks Based on CoCVaR Model

For the purpose of accurate measurement of regional systemic financial risks and prevention of regional economic turmoil, this paper proposes a new measure called the CoCVaR model, based on the tail mean loss, which is applied to measure the impact of stock returns of each listed company on the overall stock returns in Guangdong Province, China, from January 2010 to December 2020. It is found that there are significant CoVaR and CoCVaR for real estate, finance, utilities, and energy companies, while the risk spillover to the real economy market in Guangdong Province is more significant when companies in these industries are in extreme situations. There are insignificant CoCVaR for daily consumption, information technology, and health care. The risk spillover to the real economy market in Guangdong Province is smaller when companies in these industries are in crisis.

How shareholder resources impact on the allocation of control power: example of China Vanke

Purpose This paper aims to explore the influence of founder shareholders’ resources on the allocation of control rights from the perspective of incomplete contract theory and resource-based theory. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyzes newspaper materials with NVivo11on a case of battle for corporate control in Chinese top-listed company-Vanke Group. Findings The research shows that human capital is the key resource and the holding proportion of financial resources directly affects the allocation of control rights. At the same time, social capital is unstable and easily broken. At last, institutional environment also affects the degree between the relationship of founder shareholders’ resources and the allocation of control rights. The influence of founder-shareholder resources on the allocation of control rights follows the path of “crisis – founder-shareholder’s resources – founder’s ability - allocation of control rights.” Research limitations/implications This study only selects the financial capital, human capital and social capital of Shi Wang, the founder of Vanke, as the analysis object. The study can expand the types of founder shareholder resources to verify and enrich the conclusions. Originality/value The current theoretical research in the literature focuses on the necessity of equity and shareholder’s resources versus the control rights. Some key factors and mechanism on the relationship have not been fully clarified. The results of this paper not only extend the combination research of social network and corporate governance, but also provide enterprise founders with references for making reasonable decisions during control battle.