Company strategy expresses a basic idea of how to reach company objectives. A whole range of models of strategic management are used in practice. The concept of strategic management should fulfill some basic requirements to make it applicable for both the typical, but also more specific company environment. The financial strategy plays an important role in corporate strategy. The paper develops...

The paper presents a multi-document summarization system which builds companyspecific summaries from a collection of financial news such that the extracted sentences contain novel and relevant information about the corresponding organization. The user’s familiarity with the company’s profile is assumed. The goal of such summaries is to provide information useful for the short-term trading of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether financial ties to one drug company are associated with favourable results or conclusions in meta-analyses on antihypertensive drugs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Meta-analyses published up to December 2004 that were not duplicates and evaluated the effects of antihypertensive drugs compared with any comparator on clinical end points in adults. Fi...

The purpose of the present paper is to help bring some advances in the characterization of the emerging stakeholder model of corporate governance. This shall be achieved by analyzing CSR function at board level, board diversity and stakeholder engagement and by examining its relationship with financial performance. Based on an empirical study of an international sample of large companies, we fo...

Text data analysis has found its way in many applications, and our study focuses on the financial fields. Previous studies in financial indicator prediction are mostly based on econometric models. In recent years, with the advance of text mining techniques, more and more studies employ financial news as the data source for analysis. Most studies, however, aim to predict stock prices, identify t...

The aim of research is to model the dependency of enterprises on their financial ratios for predicting bankruptcy using artificial neural networks combined with fuzzy logic. A sample of companies which are financially distressed but not yet bankrupt is considered for conducting experiments. The data extracted from financial reports of financially distressed companies for past five year forms th...

1. All of the authors (JMJ, DW, YD, JU, VK, DC, CEM) have declared a financial interest in a company whose (potential) product was studied in the present work. 2. Several of the authors (CEM, DC )have declared a financial interest in a competitor of a company whose (potential) product was studied in the present work. 3. All of the authors (JMJ, DW, YD, JU, VK, DC, CEM) are employed by a company...

This study aims to use financial variables, corporate governance variables, and cash flow variables to construct financial information fraud warning models for the manufacturing industry, and applies logistics regression and back propagation neural network (BPNN) to determine the accuracy rate of identifying normal company samples and fraudulent company samples. In a ratio of ‘1:2’, this study ...