This paper is in an attempt to examine the financial performance of privatelisted commercial banks in Bangladesh in terms of profitability. The study is based on cross-section data of annual financial statements of 15 listed commercial banks for the period 2008-2012. Five determinants have been chosen for this study. The Correlation matrix shows that profitability, asset quality, operating perf...

Conservation agriculture (CA) practices are being widely promoted in many areas in sub-Saharan Africa to recuperate degraded soils and improve ecosystem services. This study examined the effects of three tillage practices [conventional moldboard plowing (CT), hand hoeing (MT) and no-tillage (NT)], and three cropping systems (continuous maize, soybean-maize annual rotation, and soybean/maize int...

This study analyzed the economics of feeding dried poultry droppings as supplement in ram production. Gross margin analysis and profitability ratio was used to analyze the data collected. The result of the budgetary analysis revealed that highest total cost of ₦5292.98/ram was incurred, highest total revenue of ₦7565.40/ram, highest gross margin of ₦3272.41/ram and highest net farm income of ₦2...

This study examines profitability as a mediating variable to explore variables that affect the capital buffer in commercial banks. The research population is conventional banks operating Indonesia, with an observation period of 2017–2020. A purposive sampling method was used, during which 90 observations were found. Data analysis used multiple regression and Sobel test for role profitability. r...

Conventional open netcage systems for salmon aquaculture are under scrutiny and criticism partially because they are believed to generate adverse environmental impacts on other resource users and the surrounding environment. One alternative to preventing or minimizing these impacts is to use enclosed systems. Experience indicates that these enclosed systems are technically feasible and environm...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the nationwide smoking ban, imposed in 2007, had an impact on the profitability of Belgian restaurants. DATA AND METHODS Objective financial reporting data on 1613 restaurants were analysed with return on assets as the outcome measure. The data were collected from the Belfirst database and cover the period 2004-2009. To assess the impact of the smoking ban, a diff...

working capital management is an essential part of the short-term finance of a firm. with an efficient working capital management, a firm can release capital for more strategic objectives, reduce the financial costs, and improve profitability. the present research studies the relationship of working capital management on performance of firms listed in tehran stock exchange (tse). average collec...

While there is growing consensus on the benefits of going green, relative revenue-enhancing and cost-cutting effects environmental practices over performance have remained a more conservative less explored phenomenon in corporate management studies. The present study investigates two parallel mediation cost-saving revenue generation profitability through practices. A bootstrap method employed t...