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Protection of Minority Shareholder Investment in the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

  • KANTHAPANIT, Chinnapat;KANTHAPANIT, Chutiya
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.451-459
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to examine the relationship of the four factors that increase the protection of minority shareholder investment. The factors are non-controlling shareholders, corporate governance, free cash flow, and shareholder wealth. The data for this study is obtained from the 2017 annual reports of 136 Thai public companies listed in the Market of Alternative Investment of Thailand (MAI). The analysis uses a multiple regression model to determine which factors encourage and which inhibit the protection of minority shareholder investment. The study tests four hypotheses. The results rejected H1 because non-controlling shareholders have negatively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta -0.155 and p-value 0.050). The results accepted H2, H3 and H4 as follows. H2: corporate governance has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.17 and p-value 0.031). H3: free cash flow has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.214 and p-value 0.007). H4: shareholder wealth has positively correlated with minority shareholder investment protection (beta 0.318 and p-value 0.000). The major findings suggest strong minority shareholder investment protection was enhanced by increasing corporate governance, free cash flow and shareholder wealth. The protection of minority shareholder investment needs to reduce non-controlling shareholding pattern.

Firm Characteristics and Cash Holdings Speed of Adjustment: Evidence from Vietnam

  • TRUONG, Khiem Dieu
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.8
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2021
  • The study investigates the existence of an optimal level of cash and the firm characteristics influencing the decision to hold cash, and the adjusting speed of the cash holdings to the target level. It highlights the heterogeneity of cash adjustment speed in the Vietnam market. The research employs the 417 samples of Vietnamese non - financial listed firms in the period of 2010 to 2019. The study uses the Pool OLS model, Fixed effect model (FEM), Random effect model (REM), and GMM model. According to the research findings, there is an optimal amount of cash at which the firm's value is maximized in Vietnamese listed firms, and the majority of the firms in the sample retain cash over the target level. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that firms actively modify their cash holdings to the optimal level with an adjustment speed of less than one owing to adjustment cost constraints. This speed varies between groupings of enterprises with different characteristics, underlining the heterogeneity of the adjustment speed even more. Small deviation firms adjust more rapidly than large deviation firms. Large free cash flow (FCF) firms adjust more readily than small FCF firms, and fiscal deficit firms modify more rapidly than firms with a financial surplus.

Cash flow Forecasting in Construction Industry Using Soft Computing Approach

  • Kumar, V.S.S.;Venugopal, M.;Vikram, B.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.502-506
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    • 2013
  • The cash flow forecasting is normally done by contractors in construction industry at early stages of the project for contractual decisions. The decision making in such situations involve uncertainty about future cash flows and assessment of working capital requirements gains more importance in projects constrained by cash. The traditional approach to assess the working capital requirements is deterministic in and neglects the uncertainty. This paper presents an alternate approach to assessment of working capital requirements for contractor based on fuzzy set theory by considering the uncertainty and ambiguity involved at payment periods. Statistical methods are used to deal with the uncertainty for working capital curves. Membership functions of the fuzzy sets are developed based on these statistical measures. Advantage of fuzzy peak working capital requirements is demonstrated using peak working capital requirements curves. Fuzzy peak working capital requirements curves are compared with deterministic curves and the results are analyzed. Fuzzy weighted average methodology is proposed for the assessment of peak working capital requirements.

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Influences of Cash Flows from Operating Activities on Debt Repayment Capability in General Hospitals and Hospitals (병원 영업활동으로 인한 현금흐름이 부채상환능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Ha, Au-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2017
  • The medical institution considers liability management problems as a direct factor in managerial risks, such as bankruptcy. Cash Flow provides useful information to necessary funds and predicting bankruptcy. The study for 24 general hospitals and 23 hospitals, a regression analysis was performed to determine the impact of cash flows on the debt repayment capability, a multivariate discrimination analysis was conducted to find out how to manage cash flow for the risk posed by debt. The analysis results, For general hospitals, the level of debt repayment capability was done to net income, increase of payables from operating activities and decrease of patient receivables and inventories from operating activities. If there is no dept repayment capability, it is necessary to increase the net income, increase the expenses not involving cash outflows, decrease of patient receivables and increase of payables from operating activities. For hospitals, the level of debt repayment capability was done to net income, increase of expenses not involving cash outflows and payables from operating activities, decrease of income not involving cash inflows, decrease of patient receivables and inventories from operating activities. If there is no dept repayment capability, it is necessary to increase of payables from operating activities.

MODELING ACCURATE INTEREST IN CASH FLOWS OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TOWARD IMPROVED FORECASTING OF COST OF CAPITAL

  • Gunnar Lucko;Richard C. Thompson, Jr.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.467-474
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    • 2013
  • Construction contactors must continuously seek to improve their cash flows, which reside at the heart of their financial success. They require careful planning, analysis, and optimization to avoid the risk of bankruptcy, remain profitable, and secure long-term growth. Sources of cash include bank loans and retained earnings, which are conceptually similar in that they both incur a cost of capital. Financial management therefore requires accurate yet customizable modeling capabilities that can quantify all expenses, including said cost of capital. However, currently existing cash flow models in construction engineering and management have strongly simplified the manner in which interest is assessed, which may even lead to overstating it at a disadvantage to contractors. The variable nature of cash balances, especially in the early phases of construction projects, contribute to this challenging issue. This research therefore extends a new cash flow model with an accurate interest calculation. It utilizes singularity functions, so called because of their ability to flexibly model changes across any number of different ranges. The interest function is continuous for activity costs of any duration and allows the realistic case that activities may begin between integer time periods, which are often calendar months. Such fractional interest calculation has hitherto been lacking from the literature. It also provides insights into the self-referential behavior of compound interest for variable cash balances. The contribution of this study is twofold; augmenting the corpus of financial analysis theory with a new interest formula, whose strengths include its generic nature and that it can be evaluated at any fractional value of time, and providing construction managers with a tool to help improve and fine-tune the financial performance of their projects.

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System Model for focused Management of Cash Flow (Cash Flow 중점관리 시스템 모델)

  • Lee Yeong-Joo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.485-488
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    • 2006
  • 기업의 올바른 경영과 꾸준한 성장을 위해선 원활한 자금흐름이 필요하다. 더욱이 장기간의 경기 침체와 급변하는 금융환경의 상황에서 기업은 자금에 대한 유동성 확보 및 향후 예측력이 필요하고 체계적으로 자금흐름을 관리하여야 한다. 즉 정확한 자금흐름을 예측하여 합리적 자금조달과 운용을 실시하며 그 결과에 대한 실적 및 분석을 통해 의사결정 정보를 적시에 제공함으로써 기업 경쟁력을 강화 시키기 위한 시스템이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구는 Cash flow 중점관리라는 효율적인 자금관리 측면의 새로운 개념의 업무 개선 방향을 정립하고 자금수지관리를 체계화 시킬 수 있는 표준 자금수지 시스템 모델을 제시하여 향후 업무 자동화 및 그룹 업무 표준화를 이루고자 한다.

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Analysis of Free Cash Flow(FCF) on Korean Hospitals in Terms of FCF Hypothesis (잉여현금흐름가설의 관점으로 분석한 한국 병원의 규모별 잉여현금흐름(Free Cash Flow) 분석)

  • Lee, Joo-Young;Jang, Ha-eun;Kim, Kyong-Beom;Noh, Jin-Won
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.510-521
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    • 2020
  • Recently, transparency in accounting for medical institutions has been emphasized. However, due to the current system problems and structural limitations, there is a lack of diagnosis on the financial status of domestic hospitals. This study is based on the financial statements per 100 beds of 374 including domestic hospital level to tertiary hospital, and analyzed the Free Cash Flow(FCF) by hospital size from the perspective of Free Cash Flow Hypothesis. After deriving Operating Cash Flow(OCF) through the profit or loss statement of medical institutions, FCFs were analyzed through the prior and current financial statements and OCFs, and the correlation between financial variables was confirmed. According to the analysis, first, hospitals with 160 to 299 beds and 300 beds or more have relatively high FCFs. Second, certified tertiary hospitals, hospitals with less than 160 beds, and general hospitals have negative(-) FCFs. Thus, there's a need to narrow the FCF gap based on the size of the hospital, maintaining an appropriate level of FCF. This study is meaningful in that it was the first FCF analysis based on hospital size. This study is also expected to offer an informative resources in setting differentiated strategies according to the size of medical institutions when establishing new accounting policies in the future.

Persistent Large Cash Holdings and Operating Performance (지속적인 현금보유와 영업성과)

  • Kim, Byung-Mo
    • The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.137-164
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    • 2008
  • This paper examines the operating performance of firms that for a four-year period, held more than 15% of their assets in cash and cash equivalents. During next four years, operating performance of firms maintaining high cash persistently is greater than the performance of firms matched by size and industry or firms adopting transitory high cash policy. Furthermore, the effect of persistent cash holdings on operating performance depends on the ownership structure and the level of information asymmetry. Foreign investors deteriorate the operating performance of high cash firms, suggesting that potential M&A and the pressure of excessive dividend reduce the usefulness of cash. The level of information asymmetry enhances the operating performance for the firms adopting persistent high cash policy. It suggests that cash holdings reduce the costly external financing and underinvestment problem for firms with high information asymmetry.

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DCF Formulae for the Case of Simultaneous Random Variations of the Rates of Inflation and Return (할인율과 인플레율이 동시에 확율분포를 취할 경우의 DCF공식)

  • 최진영;정동길
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.6 no.9
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 1983
  • This Paper represents time-dependent stochastic variations of common discounted cash flow formulae with explicit consideration given to inflation. The cash flow, the ratio of discounting or compounding, and the rate of inflation are allowed to vary with time in a random fashion in equations for the compound amount of a single payment, present worth of a single payment, amount of an annuity, periodic deposits to accumulate a future amounts, present worth of an annuity and capital recovery And all formulae are derived for the case of discrete random variations.

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Evaluation of Economic Alternatives with Dynamic Measures (동태적 측도를 이용한 경제성 평가)

  • Park, Choon-Yup
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 1998
  • This paper presents a new present value measure, the dynamic present value, or DPV. DPV takes into account not only the value of the realized cash flow but also that of potential cash flow. The DPV approach enables the analyst to observe differences in the present value of the alternatives every period over the whole time period of interest. This is the most fundamental advantage of the DPV approach over the traditional present value approach in which the present value of the alternatives is evaluated only one particular point of time. The concepts of the realized and potential cash flows are also developed in this paper. These new concepts are found to be useful elements in evaluating economic alternatives.

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