Financial inclusion, financial management, and micro business performance

Business Process Management on Financial Performance

Background and Aim: Business process management is a comprehensive management approach that aims to align all dimensions and activities of the organization in line with customer needs and automates all processes of the organization. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of business process management on the financial performance of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Materials a...

Business strategy and financial reporting readability

Business strategy exerts a considerable impact on complexities, risk and corporate environmental uncertainties as well as the way of providing financial reporting. On this line of argument, therefore, the present study seeks to scrutinize the effect of business strategy on corporate financial reporting readability. In doing so, Fog and Fletch indices are employed to measure financial reporting ...

Integrating Financial Management and Performance Management

Improving Financial Inclusion: towards a Critical Financial Education Framework

Empirical research suggests that financial inclusion initiatives – such as facilitating access to financial resources or providing microcredit – are alone not enough to lower socioeconomic disparities. In this article, we adopt a critical stance as a guide for our empirical investigation. Our aim is to propose a financial education framework, tailored to low-income micro-entrepreneurs, that emb...

Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion

M obile financial services are among the most promising mobile applications in the developing world. Mobile money could become a general platform that transforms entire economies, as it is adopted across commerce, health care, agriculture, and other sectors. To date, at least 110 money mobile systems have been deployed, with more than 40 million users. The most well-known system, M-PESA, starte...