1st ICARE Student's Conference - 2015
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Item The empirical relationship between board size and firm performance of listed companies in Sri Lanka(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Weerakkodi, W.A.S.L.A many studies investigate to the link between board size and firm performance in listed companies in Sri Lanka. The evidence on this area is very thin in Sri Lanka being a developing countries. The structure and size of the board and its impact on the performance of the firm is one of the most discussed issues of corporate governance. Board size, gender, duality, education, board age and Independent were the board structure variables, and ROA and ROE were the measurement device of firm Performance. Good corporate governance practices are regarded as important in reducing risk for investors, attracting investment capital and improving the performance of companies. Sri Lanka does not have large number of studies on corporate governance issues. Therefore, these kinds of studies on corporate governance issues will help to improve the corporate governance practice in Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study will provide a new perspective in studying the relationship between board size and firm performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between board size and firm performance in Sri Lanka for the extent of compliance of the CBP recommendations by the companies. Further, to investigate the relationship between the CEO duality and firm performance, to investigate the relationship between proportion of non-executive directors and firm performance.Item The investment of information technology on performance of the organization(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Pathirana, M.P.D.M.Many organizational leaders and strategy scholars would agree that the ability to effectively manage information within the firm has become critically important because it may provide a basis for gaining a competitive advantage (Tippins, 2003).Many business people invest large amount of funds for information technology to improve the performance of the organization. The objective of this research is to find the relationship between investment of IT and firm performance of the manufacturing organizations. According to this research independent variables are amount of investment of IT, Investment of IT percentage of total assets and Investment of IT percentage of total investment. Dependent variable is Return of assets (Weill,1992).Secondary evidence used for this research. Ten years of historical data on IT investment and performance was collected using Annual reports of CSE website. In the recent past, researchers have shown conflicting results regarding the returns to IT investment. Some researchers posit that the equivocal results of IT investment are due to inconsistent measurement of firm performance and investment (Lim, Richardson, Roberts, 2004).To gain best result used SPSS tools for analyze the variables and data. The important of this research is to gain more knowledge about IT and its effect of the organizations.Item Impact of ownership structure on firm performance in manufacturing sector in Sri Lanka(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Roshini, H.W.C.Corporate governance can be defined as a “Corporate governance involves a set of relationship between a company’s management, its board, its shareholders and other stakeholders also the structure through which objectives of the company are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance are determined” (Organization for economic Co-operation and Development principle of corporate Governance-2004). Corporate Governance is widely spreader concept. It consists of many factors such as ownership structure, board meeting, CEO duality …etc. Therefore, it is very difficult to look all these factors at once. Ownership Structure is one main characteristic of Corporate Governance. Therefore to get the deep understand about the relationship between ownerships structure and firm performance would be very useful. The Objective of this research is to find about the relationship between ownership and financial performance, how the Ownership structure makes the significant impact on company performance in manufacture sector companies on Sri Lanka .The sample of this study includes fifty listed companies in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). The Research samples consist with manufacturing companies that are listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in Sri Lanka. In this study consider period as 2013 and 2014. In this study Researcher will be used secondary data for conducting the research. The related data will be collected from Company annual reports, CD issued by CSE and CSE web site. This study analysed the annual reports of selected companies in the Manufacturing sector of last two years.