• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2018

Purpose - This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial reporting quality. Corporate social responsibility is a way for firms to take responsibility for the social and environmental impacts of their business operations. Corporate social responsibility is a broad concept that can take various forms depending on the firm and industry. Through corporate social responsibility programs, firms can benefit society. At the same time, firms improve their reputations by increasing engagement in corporate social responsibility activities. However, corporate social responsibility activities are not directly related to profitability, especially for distribution firms. Research design, data, and methodology - 229 distribution & service firm-years between 2011 and 2016 are used for the main analysis. In Korea, Korean Economic Justice Institute evaluates the ethical performance of Korean firms, and the institute annually discloses the scores of top firms. This study uses the KEJI Index scores to measure firm-level corporate social responsibility activities. Discretionary accruals are used as a proxy for financial reporting quality. Discretionary accruals can be used opportunistically, and thus distort the information in earnings. We extract financial data from the KIS Value database. Results - We find that distribution & service firms' engagement in corporate social responsibilities is positively related to their financial reporting quality. First, there is a negative correlation between implementation of corporate social responsibility activities and discretionary accruals. In addition, we find that the coefficient of CSR is significantly negative, supporting our prediction. The result is significant at the 1% level. Conclusions - We examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility activities of distribution firms and their financial reporting quality while most prior studies examine the engagement in corporate social responsibility activities of manufacturing firms. The results of this study show that distribution & service firms engaging in corporate social responsibility activities are likely to maintain high-quality financial reporting.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.255-265
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• 2020

This study examines whether the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has increased financial statement comparability among firms and reduced undervaluation of Korean firms in the capital market by enhancing financial statement comparability. The so-called Korea Discount, which indicates an inefficient allocation of capital, has been attributed to lack of transparency and comparability of accounting information. Therefore, an efficient distribution of capital in the market was intended when IFRS was first adopted in Korea, but such progress is based on a premise of enhancement in Korean firms' accounting information comparability. This study conducts empirical analysis by using a comparability measure by De Franco et al. (2011). More specifically, it analyzes differences among comparability of domestic firms following IFRS adoption, with firms in the EU, which adopted IFRS in 2005, and with firms in the U.S., China and Japan that do not follow IFRS. The analysis of changes in domestic firms' comparability finds that their comparability improved following IFRS adoption. Meanwhile, the examination of cross-national differences in comparability demonstrates that, although there has been no significant change in comparability with firms in the U.S. and the EU across Korean industry since IFRS adoption, comparability with China has decreased while that with Japan improved.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.804-813
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• 2020

기존의 국내 무부채 기업에 관한 연구는 부채 그룹과 대비되는 의미에서의 무부채 단일 그룹의 동질적인 그룹 특성 연구에 중점을 두었다고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 국내 무부채 기업군을 단 변량 분석과 다 변량 로짓 회귀분석을 사용하여 배당금을 지급하는 그룹과 지급하지 않는 그룹으로 나누어 실증 분석한 결과 국내 기업들이 무부채 전략을 선택하는 동기에 있어서 크게 두 종류의 기업군으로 분류 될 수 있음을 발견했다. 첫 번째 기업군은 주로 기업 크기가 작은 신생 기업들로서 금융시장에서 부채를 조달하는데 어려움이 있고 이런 재정적인 어려움 때문에 무부채를 선택하는 기업들이다. 이런 종류의 기업들은 배당금을 지급할 수 있을만한 유동성이 없다. 두 번째 그룹은 비교적 크고 성숙한 기업들로서 현재 부채 조달에 어려움은 없지만 미래 성장에 필요한 투자 자금 확보를 대비해서 현재의 부채 사용을 억제하여 필요한 시점의 원활한 부채 자금 조달을 위한 재정적 유연성을 갖고자 무부채 전략을 선택하는 것으로 보인다. 재정적으로는 비교적 안정되어 있고 배당을 지급하지 않는 그룹보다 수익률과 영업 현금흐름에서 더 높지만 성장가능성은 상대적으로 더 낮다. 요약하자면 무부채 그룹은 단일 공통된 특성의 그룹이 아니다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.107-124
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• 2005

ERP systems are comprehensive sorfware packages that seek to integrate the complete range of lbusiness processes and functions in order to present a heuristic perspectives of a firm from a single information and information technlogy architecture. The ERP systems have delicate internal controls with built-in devices. It is known that the delicate internal controls help to enhance the accounting transparency. We empirically investigate the relationship between the ERP systems inplementations and an accounting transparency. In order to measure the accounting transparency differences, we compare the ERP systems implementation firms with firms which did not implement the ERP systems by 6 financial ratios (accruals, net profit margin, operation cash folo to sales, total debt to equity, accounts receivable changes, assets quality). Data are collecte from 135 firms implemented the ERP systems and 135 firms non-implemented the systems (the firms listed in the Korea Stock Exchange). We analyze financial statements from 270 firms for the period 2001-2003 to ezamine the 6 financial ratios differences. The results of 810 firms analyses over the 3-year period indicate that the ERP systems implementation firms show the statistically significant differences in the accrual ratio, the net profit margin ratio, operating cash flow to sales ratio, and total debt to equity ratio from the ERP systems non-implementation firms. But there is statistically no differences between the two groups for accounts receivable changes to sales ratio and assets quality.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.819-826
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• 2021

This study aims to determine the impact of product consumption strategy and financial autonomy on the competitiveness of technology firms in Vietnam. This study employs panel data of 27 technology firms collected from listed financial statements of the business for the period (2010-2019). The study also uses some indicators reflecting the macroeconomic situation of the economy collected from the World Bank. Instead of Exploratory Factor Analysis which has been used before, the study uses the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimation as the main method. The FGLS corrects the variance changes and autocorrelation on the dataset of these Vietnamese technology firms. The results reveal that the strategy of product consumption and financial autonomy positively affect the competitiveness of technology firms. These are also two core factors of the technology industry, which have a strong impact on the increase in the competitiveness of firms. The findings of this study suggest that technology firms do not need to invest in many long-term assets, but mainly in short-term assets in order to quickly respond to the strategies for consuming new technology products of the business. In addition, the increase in Gross Domestic Product per capita also positively affects the increase in the competitiveness of technology firms.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.111-131
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 데이터마이닝 기법의 일종인 자기조직화지도(Self-Organizing Map, SOM)를 이용하여 비외감기업의 부실화 유형을 구분하고자 한다. 자기조직화지도는 인공 신경망을 기초로 자율학습을 통해 입력된 값을 유사한 군집끼리 묶어내는 방법으로, 기존의 통계적 군집 분류 방법보다 성능이 뛰어나고, 고차원의 입력데이터를 저차원으로 시각화할 수 있다는 장점 때문에 다양한 분야에서 각광받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 연구의 주요 분석대상이었던 외감기업에 비해 부실화 빈도는 높지만 데이터 수집의 어려움으로 인해 분석대상에서 다소 제외되었던 비외감기업의 부실화 유형에 대해 알아보고, 유형별 구체적인 사례도 소개하고자 한다. 재무자료수집이 가능한 100개의 비외감 부실기업에 대해 분석한 결과, 비외감기업의 부실화 유형은 다섯 가지로 구분되었다. 유형 1은 전체 집단의 약 12%를 차지하며, 수익성, 성장성 등 재무지표가 다른 유형에 비해 열등하였다. 유형 2는 전체 집단의 약 14%로, 유형 1보다는 덜 심각하지만 재무지표가 대체로 열등하였다. 유형 3은 성장성 지표가 열등한 그룹으로 기업간 경쟁이 극심한 가운데 지속적으로 성장하지 못하고 부실화된 경우로 약 30%의 기업이 포함되었다. 유형 4는 성장성은 탁월하나 부채경영 등 과감한 경영으로 인해 유동성 부족이나 현금부족 등의 이유로 부실화된 그룹으로 약 25%의 기업이 포함되었다. 유형 5는 거의 모든 재무지표가 우수한 건전기업으로, 단기적인 경영전략의 실수 또는 중소기업의 특성상 경영자의 개인적 사정으로 부실화 되었을 가능성이 큰 그룹으로 약 18%의 기업이 포함되었다. 본 연구 결과는 부실화 유형을 구분하는데 기존의 통계적 방법이 아닌 자기조직화지도를 이용하였다는 점에서 학문적 의의가 있고, 비외감기업의 재무지표만으로도 1차적인 부실화 징후를 발견할 수 있다는 점에서 실무적 의의가 있다고 할 수 있다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.1-38
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• 2019

Given capital market imperfections, an entrepreneur can alleviate financial frictions by creating a pyramidal business group in which a parent firm offers its subsidiary firm internal finance. This endogenous creation of pyramidal business groups can beget asymmetric financial frictions between business-group firms and stand-alone firms. I build a model to show that these asymmetric financial frictions can have sizable effects on resource allocation. On one hand, the financial advantage of pyramidal business groups can foster productive firms by incorporating them as subsidiaries. On the other hand, the asymmetrically large amount of external capital controlled by pyramidal business groups can be expended by unproductive business-group firms and push up the equilibrium price of capital. The model suggests that with fine investor protection or low financial frictions, the benefits of pyramidal business groups can be dominated by their costs because the probability of fostering productive subsidiaries diminishes as the efficiency of external capital markets improves, while the prevalence of pyramidal business groups is not attenuated due to their continuing asymmetric financial advantage.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.486-495
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• 2009

The purpose of this research was to investigate whether the perception of KPIs by restaurant managers from financial and non-financial perspectives was affected by BSC implementation. The perceptions that were examined were importance, adoption, performance, and utilization of KPIs. We surveyed managers from multinational restaurant chains that were adopting BSC and those that were not. From a non-financial perspective, the difference in perceived importance between BSC adopted firms and firms that did not adopt BSC was significant. The managers of BSC adopted firms perceived KPIs more seriously than the others. Secondly, according to the managers' working experiences, the difference of perceived utilization in the internal business process perspective was significant between BSC adopted firms and firms that did not adopt BSC. In addition, from the learning and growth perspective, the difference in perceived adoption and utilization between the two groups was significant. Finally, in the BSC adopted firms, the perceived importance of the managers affected the other perceptions like adoption and utilization from both the financial and non-financial perspectives.

• 융합경영연구
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper empirically investigates what factors contribute to management decisions by corporate governance in the Korean stock market. In the paper, dividends and investments were imployed as management decisions and major stockholders' shares and foreign investors' shares were used as corporate governance. Research design, data, and Methodolog - Samples are constructed by manufacturing firms listed on the stock market of Korea as well as those who settle accounts in December from 2001 to 2018. Financial institutions are excluded from the sample as their accounting procedures, governance and regulations differ. This study adopted the panel regression model to assess the sample construction including yearly and cross-sectional data. Results - This results support the literatures that major shareholders showed insignificance to dividends, positive significance to investment in financially unconstrained firms and negative significance to investment in financially constrained firms. Whereas foreign investors favor firms to increase dividends but they decrease investments only in financially constrained firms. Conclusion - This paper documented evidence that financial constrained firms use dividends for their investment and foreign investors decrease investments under financial constraints. But for dividends decisions, foreign investors give significant positive impacts irrespective of financial constraints.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1654-1662
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 $\"{O}$.Arslan et al.(2006)의 연구방법론을 적용하여 국내 기업의 현금보유(cash holdings)가 투자-현금흐름 민감도(investment-cash flow sensitivity)에 어떤 영향을 주는지를 분석하는 데 있다. 1981년부터 2009년까지 외환위기 이전과 이후 그리고 외환위기 기간으로 분류하여 각 기간별로 현금보유가 투자-현금흐름 민감도에 어떤 영향을 주는 지를 비교 분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 전체 기업을 재무적 제약(financial constraint) 에 대한 고려 없이 3개의 기간으로 분류해서 살펴본 결과 외환위기 기간을 제외한 외환위기 이전과 이후 기간에서는 현금보유가 많은 기업일수록 투자-현금흐름 민감도는 감소하였다. 둘째, 기업규모나 배당지급 기준에 의해 재무적 제약하에 있지 않은 기업으로 분류된 경우에는 현금보유가 많을수록 투자-현금흐름 민감도는 오히려 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 $\"{O}$.Arslan et al.(2006)의 연구와 일치하지 않는 결과인데 첫째, 기업규모나 배당지급 여부는 국내에서는 기업의 재무적 제약을 나타내는 기준으로 불완전하며 둘째, 본 연구에서 고려하지 못한 투자-현금흐름 민감도에 영향을 주는 다른 요인들이 존재할 수 있기 때문이다. 하지만 현금보유기준에 의해 재무적 제약하의 기업으로 분류된 경우에는 투자-현금흐름 민감도는 낮게 나타났다. 이는 $\"{O}$.Arslan et al.(2006)의 연구결과와 일치한다. 끝으로 전체 기간 동안 현금보유 결정요인은 다음과 같다. 현금흐름(cash flow)과 시장가/장부가비율(market to book ratio)은 증가할수록, 단기부채와 투자지출 그리고 기업규모는 감소할수록, 기업의 현금보유증가에 양(+)의 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다.