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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDo Firm Size and Financial Performance Affect Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Employees' and Environmental Dimensions?Mohammad Ebrahim NawaisehThe paper empirically tests the impact of company size and financial performance on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure (CSRD), from the Employees' and Environmental Dimensions perspective with reference to the disclosure frequency and quality of these dimensions among Jordanian industrial public share holding companies; whether there is an impact of firm size measured by total assets, ROA, ROE and Leverage on … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 12 · 29 Nov 2015 · 8,326 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMODEL SELECTION VIA ROBUST VERSION OF R-SQUAREDShokrya SalehR-squared (R2) is a popular method for variable selection in linear regression models. R2 based on Least Squares (LS) regression minimizes the sum of the squared residuals; LS is sensitive to outlier observation. Alternative criterion based on M-estimators, which is less sensitive to outlying observation has been proposed. In this study explicit expression for such criterion is obtained when the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 9 Oct 2014 · 7,460 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTHE CONSIDERATION AND PURPOSE OF BORROWING: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA LISTED COMPANIESVentje Ilat, Winston PontohDebt often graced in most of capital structure of companies, particularly in financial statement and became issues in context of trade off theory and pecking order theory in most studies. Debt usually related with profit matter, because it is always want to be achieved by every companies. It started when companies own equity is insufficient to create investment in company’s … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 7 · 2 May 2014 · 7,002 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInfluence of Environmental Risk on the Financial Structure of Oil and Gas ProjectsBagilya Karsybayeva, Alberto De MarcoThe risk profile of a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project affects its debt service ability. In particular, the total risk profile of an oil and gas project is heavily influenced by its environmental risk exposure. However, this risk is often not given a considerable weight in risk analysis, resulting in underestimation of project’s total riskiness and consequent overestimation of the debt capacity. … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 22 Jan 2013 · 7,195 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Study on the Behavior of Volatility in Saudi Arabia Stock Market Using Symmetric and Asymmetric GARCH ModelsAjab Al Freedi, Ahmed Shamiri, Zaidi IsaProblem statement: This study examines several stylized facts (heavy-tailedness, leverage effect and persistence) in volatility of stock price returns exploiting symmetric and asymmetric GARCH family models for Saudi Arabia. Approach: This study is carried out using closing stock market prices over 15 years covering the period 1 January 1994 to 31 March 2009. The sample period is divided into three … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 7 Feb 2012 · 7,577 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn M-Learning System Based on Mobile Phones and Quick Response CodesHend S. Al-KhalifaProblem statement: Many instructors in academia wish to know how much their students understand the content of the lecture; however, doing this manually will be very difficult and time consuming. Similarly, most students have communication problems with their instructors and they wish if they can ask their questions without any fear. So a need for a technology to bridge these … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 9 Mar 2011 · 6,931 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImpact of Firm's Characteristics on Determining the Financial Structure On the Insurance Sector Firms in JordanGhazi F. Momani, Majed A. Alsharayri, Mwafaq M. DandanProblem statement: The question of the funding structure took a great importance in developed countries, but it has been neglected in developing countries. Approach: This study came with the aim to examine the effect of the following factors: Volume, assets structure, return on assets and growth rate on the capital structure of the insurance sector companies listed in Amman stock … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,739 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIncome Statements Transparency and Firms' Characteristics of Companies Listed on the Bursa MalaysiaSazilah Mohd Saad, Syed Noh Syed Ahmad, Kamaruzaman Jusoff et al.Problem statement: This research was intended to contribute to the one of Corporate Governance mechanism on transparency and disclosure on the financial statements. Approach: As in the recent development of findings from Financial Statements Review Committee (FSRC) that company did not disclose of Material expenses and not classified accordingly. Results: This study provides an evidence for the transparency level on … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2009 · 7,527 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards Persistence Framework-Based Rapid Application Development Toolkit for Web Application DevelopmentChoon H. Choo, Sai P. LeeSoftware systems must be delivered quickly in order to respond to today's rapid changing business environments. Persistence framework was introduced to overcome the problem of object-relational impedance mismatch, occurred in most enterprise applications that need access to a relational database. However, most of these persistence frameworks are difficult to configure and use, thus do not really contribute much to the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2008 · 6,767 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Volatility and Asymmetry of Won/Dollar Exchange RateSeok Yoon, Ki Seong LeeThe study on volatility and asymmetry of the exchange rate by applied to the daily Won/Dollar exchange rate shows that past volatility of the exchange rate still has strong persistency at present and asymmetry effect and the leverage effect, which explain that volatility shock has an effect on the uncertainty of the exchange rate, are also existent after the free … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2008 · 8,567 accessesView PDFCite