The Effect of Debt To Equity Ratio, Total Asset Turnover, Return On Assets And Return On Equity On Dividend Policy In Manufacturing Companies

An industry has a clear goal, which is to reap profits in each of its performances, the profits generated by the industry in its performance cannot be separated from the donations of financial managers. The purpose of this study is to find out that dividend policy can increase business growth and development. The study method uses secondary data, obtained from the annual report of each industry with the year published 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The total population of 182 obtained by 25 industries as an illustration with a year of observation as far as 5 years, so that an illustration of as many as 182 is obtained. 125 observations. The conclusions obtained in the results of this study that investors and potential corporate investors will be more careful and also pay attention to financial ratios that can be considered in carrying out investments.

Balancing Community and Autonomy – To What Extent Does the Regime Reconcile ISA Regulatory Authority and Investment Protection for Corporate Actors?

Chapter 7 assesses the extent to which the deep seabed mining regime in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as developed and enforced by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), strikes an appropriate balance between the dual common heritage goals of community and autonomy. Chapter 7 focuses on reconciling the ISA’s right to regulate on behalf of humanity with investment protection rights for deep seabed miners. It considers whether the UNCLOS deep seabed mining regime incorporates protections that are functionally equivalent to international investment law rights, backed by binding dispute resolution options. These are crucial considerations for corporate investors, and may influence the commercial viability of the regime. Chapter 7 then evaluates whether such investment protection rights may be balanced alongside the ISA’s right to regulate concerning the communitarian aspects of the common heritage, thereby achieving an overall balance between community and autonomy within the regime.

Corporate Investors in Top U.S. AI Startups

Corporate investors are a significant player in the U.S. AI startup ecosystem, funding 71 percent of top U.S. AI startups. The authors analyze the trends in top corporate funders and the startups receiving corporate money.

Corporate Landlords and the Climate Crisis

This chapter explores the nexus of finance and climate change by examining the concurrent rise of extreme weather disasters and corporate landlords. Wealthy, white corporate investors use their financial resources to profit from extreme weather. In the wake of hurricanes and floods in Lumberton, North Carolina, corporate investors swooped in to buy single-family homes and rent them out for profit. These landlords have created precarious housing for Lumberton’s Black, Brown, and lower-income white families, who were more likely to be displaced by extreme weather and then were forced to put more of their comparatively lower incomes toward rent. Corporate landlords’ speculation on single-family rentals around the country capitalizes on the racialized displacement that will likely worsen with climate change.

Monuments to the Impossible

What tools do cultural interventions offer us to face and speak back to the horrors of a colonial archive that continues to grow and expand in its mechanisms of dehumanizing and silencing the populations it targets? How do we respond to a horizon of reality that seems surreal? What weapons do we have left to fight or speak back when we know that the walking and living archive—officers, policymakers, schoolteachers, corporate investors, and the people successfully disciplined by them—denies the lives of the people who tirelessly labor for it? Facts, research, and logical argument barely hold up against the almost surreal arsenal of deliberately woven lies and institutional racism we face. This article briefly analyzes three discrete responses linked by unfathomable horror, beauty, and anger (a song, a cry of rage, and a sacrificial act of self-assertion) to the horrors of anti-Black brutality.

The impact of the news on the value and trading volume of the USA pharmaceutical companies stocks

Intensive development of the global pharmaceutical industry has led to a significant increase in its attractiveness to market investors. At the same time, there is a clear lack of academic work in world financial science that would reveal the specifics of the shares pricing for pharmaceutical companies, including the nature of the influence of various types of news information. The study made it possible to partially solve this problem, significantly expanding the range of available scientific conclusions. Based on a situational and econometric analysis, the authors characterized the influence of a wide range of news information on the dynamics of stock prices and trading volumes, assessed the possibility of insider trading. It is shown that usage of news information by investors can potentially lead to extra profit on market transactions. The findings of the study can be useful to both private and corporate investors, including portfolio managers, in transactions with shares of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

Do Managerial Ability Impact Indonesian Firm Risk-Taking Behavior?

This study aims to examine the role of managerial in firm decisions. This study recognizes that managerial plays an important role in corporate decision making. Decisions carried out by the company are not only influenced by the manager's explicit mandate to maximize firm value, but also by the manager's ability to manage the company. In previous research it was found that high-ability and low-ability managers have opposite effects on firm behavior and firm value. High-ability managers accept risk-taking whereas low-ability managers refrain from taking risks. Managerial Ability in this study was measured using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) while for firm risk-taking behavior using the return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and research and development costs to total assets (R&D). The model used in this study is a causality model or the relationship of influence between research variables. The proposed model is analyzed using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) causality technique. This research was conducted on manufacturing companies listed on IDX (Indonesian Stock Exchange) in 2013-2017. However, unlike previous studies, the results of this study indicate that highly capable managers play a role in minimizing corporate risk taking. This research contributes as a reference for Indonesian corporate investors and also regulators as a reflection of the effectiveness of regulations made in Indonesia.

Occurrence and Severity of Physiological Disorders of Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq. L.) in Uganda

In Africa, oil palm is grown in 25 countries supported by corporate investors. In Uganda, commercial oil palm cultivation began in 2005 in Bugala Islands. Seedlings were imported from countries with established breeding programs. These seedlings were grown in areas with different environmental conditions which have resulted in a number of physiological disorders. The aim of this research was to determine the major physiological disorders in oil palm fruit bunches in Uganda. The study was carried out in the adaptive trials in Kagadi, Bugiri, Buvuma and Masaka Districts and in the different smallholder farmer blocks in Kalangala District. Data was collected on bunch rot, bunch failure and uneven ripening. Sampling was carried out in oil palm plantations above five years of age. Three fields were selected from each unit and three units from each block by the help of the Agricultural Extension Officers (AEOs). Palms were randomly sampled and assessed for presence of bunch rot, bunch failure and uneven ripening symptoms. The incidence was expressed as a percentage of the total number of palms sampled while the severity of bunch rot disease was scored on a scale of 0-4. From the results, the differences in bunch rot and bunch failure in adaptive trials were statistically significant as well as across seasons (P < 0.05). Uneven ripening was not statistically significant and severity of bunch rot in the different farmer blocks in Kalangala was statistically significant (P = 0.03). Uneven ripening was high across smallholder farmer blocks in Kalangala and was statistically significant (P = 0.05) even across seasons (P < 0.05). These results are important for sensitization of farmers on management of oil palm disorders and essential for guiding policy makers and investors as the oil palm industrial sector is being developed in Uganda. This study calls for determination of water deficit at the various ecological zones and its relationship to physiological disorders as a guide for further oil palm estate development.