International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) was made compulsory for European firms beginning from 1 January, 2005. This has attracted several studies on the impact of IFRS adoption on European manufacturing/sales-based firms’ earnings management and its goals. However, Mal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/20575
This study analyses the determinants of Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) liquidity performance in Ghana using the CAMEL regulatory measures and macroeconomic variables with RCBs’ market jurisdiction as a moderating variable. 114 rural and community bank-specific panel data from 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/24121
Halal food concept was simply defined few years ago by Muslim scholars with banning some foods. However, pesticide products and Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) bring new discussions among Muslim countries and Non-Muslim countries. Some countries responsible from halal certificat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23861
Improvements in technology and information systems as well as changes in climate and economies have resulted in an increasingly competitive environment for the agribusiness sector. A better understanding of firm level competitiveness of this sector hence provides the necessary fr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/24152
This study has examined the dynamic relationship between certain macroeconomic variables and stock prices in the UK and South Africa. Using the Johansen co-integration technique based on vector error correction model (VECM), the study finds one co-integrating vector for the UK da...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/22524
Aims: In the conditions of advanced countries industrial markets’ competition escalation the issue of creating new economy on the basis of global technologies is becoming more and more important. New global technologies have appeared due to convergence of Nano-bio-info and cogno(...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/24151
Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) are the powerhouses of the economic development of many countries. This paper probes the dynamics on how Government Policies, Internationalization and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) usage of SMEs stimulate the growth and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23552
This paper measures the relationship between intangible structural capital variables (systems and programs, research and development and corporate reputation) and competitiveness’ enhancement among telecommunication companies in Rwanda. Factor and multiple linear regression analy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23234
It is observed that, while existing literature on the 2008/2009 Nigerian banking crisis has emphasised causal factors, which can be classified as remote causes, it is silent on the immediate cause of the financial crash. Therefore, this study seeks to identify the trigger of even...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23656
Aims: In modern conditions on international market, there are tends of strengthening the relations between manufacturers and members of distribution network, which allows enterprises to adapt more flexibly to the changing demand in the foreign market, to optimize transaction cost...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/20708