1st ICARE Student's Conference - 2015
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Item An impact analysis of financial sector institutions’ capital structure influence over its performance in Sri Lankan(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Balendra, V.The capital structure of a firm is basically a mix of debt and equity, which a firm deems as appropriate to enhance its operations (Kyereboah-Coleman, Anthony, 2007). A lot of investigations are being done on the implications of capital structure’s selection on organization’s value and its performance since the seminal work of Modigliani and Miller (1958). A wee little is empirically known about such implications in emerging economies such Sri Lanka. The purpose of this research is to explore empirically the impact of capital structure decisions on the financial sector organizations’ financial performance in srilanka as one of emerging economies. Regression analysis will be used in this research to identify the relationship between the leverage level and the performance of the financial institutions. Broad data covering the five year periods from 20102015 of financial institutions in srilanka will be gathered and analyzed with the regression analysis. The data all are quantitative in nature and already available on Colombo stock exchange database (secondary evidence).There are 69 financial institutions in Sri Lanka and most of them are levered firms. Based on Return on Capital Employed financial performance measurement and a financial institution’s leverage level the results are expected to reveal that capital structure has a moderate level of impact on organization’s financial performance.Item The impact of total quality management practices on performance and competitive advantage(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Farook, T.N.This empirical study examines the association between Total Quality Management ,performance and competitive advantage. The article investigates the impact of Total Quality Management on performance and competitive advantage, following the evolution during a ten years. This study supports the hypothesis that Total Quality Management practices positively impact the performance and competitive advantage. The study reports that successful adoption and implementation of Total Quality Management practices results in improving the performance and competitive advantage of organization. The main implication of the findings for managers is that with Total Quality Management practices, manufacturing organizations are more likely to achieve better performance in customer satisfaction, employee relations, quality and business performance than without Total Quality Management practices. And competitive advantage focuses on performance variables revenues, market share, product quality and customer satisfaction. This study supports the hypothesis that Total Quality Management practices positively impact the performance and competitive advantage. Questionnaire using for collected data from the private organization in Sri Lanka and tested proposed model. The results of this study supported a model proposed.Item Political changes affect to business success(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Senanayaka, D.J.During the latter half of the twentieth century an increasing number of developing countries have been exposed to internal political conflict and consequent civil war. The developing countries have also been experimenting with different policy regimes and planning exercises to achieve economic development. How did the different actors sustain and protect their own interest during he war and wha source of alliances if any, were formed and for what reason? Why did the conflict move towards were ceasefire and peace talks in 2002? What are the political economy consideration for peace and Reconstruction? For that evaluate Gross Domestic Product ratio, Population ratio, Gross National Product ratio. And use Central bank annual reports for finding variance. They identify unemployment rate of Sri Lanka. Some data set taken from paper on the Sri Lankan Security Sector prepared by K.M De Silva for the clingendael Institute in 2002. The purpose of this paper was to contribute to the current debate on the relationship between economic development and political conflict in developing countries through a case study of the ‘twin political conflict’ in Sri Lanka. The strategic development problem faced by developing countries is not limited only to the provision of basic needs to its population. The overall political conflict in Sri Lanka has its roots in the contradictions in the country’s historical development process, resulted from policy errorsItem Corporate governance and company performance(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dehipegedara, B.Corporate governance and its impact to the company performance are much debated areas. In the past incidental research has shown significant relationship between various corporate governance features and corporate performance. Good corporate governance is effect to the lower risk of the investors, attaching more investments and improving the performance of companies. And also agency theory suggested that a better governed firm should have better performance and higher valuation due to lower agency cost. For example, better governed U.S. firms have higher Return On Equity and higher Return On Assets.(Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003)).However impact of corporate governance is vary between developing countries and developed countries. This study examines the relationship between corporate governance features and company performance in Sri Lanka. Some of corporate governance variables are Board size, Proportion of non-executive directors, leadership style and Board committees and ROE and ROA can be used as Performance measures. The selected sample is 20 listed firms from top 25 listed companies in the business today top 25 2012- 2013. Data collection methodology is secondary sources. Data will be obtained by Annual reports. Data will be analyzed by using SPSS model to obtain quantitative measures of descriptive statistics, regression analysis and correlation. The importance of this analysis is, it provides the evidence to find the positive relationship between Board sizes, Board committee, Non-executive directors’ impact, leadership structure firm performance which results in higher return.