This paper investigates capital structure determinants of New Zealand-listed firms. This study is an extension from previous studies conducted by Boyle andEckhold (1997) and, Wellalage &Locke (2012). Boyle and Eckhold and, Wellalage and Locke examine capital structure choices in New Zealand, especially the debt choices of NZ's corporate firms. Using a balanced-panel of 79 New Zealand-listed firms, this study employs a balanced panel method, using dynamic-panel Instrumental Variable-Generalised Methods of Moments (IV-GMM) as it corrects heteroskedasticity and endogeneity problems which might result in an unbiased and inconsistent estimation. All variables, apart from non-debt tax shields and profitability exhibit a significant impact on total debt. Overall, these variables confirm the trade-off theory,

This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance and intellectual capital on firm performance in Indonesian-listed firms. Using a balanced-panel of 120 Indonesian-listed firms, this study employs a balanced panel method, using non linier IV 2SLS and non linier IV-GMM. All variables, apart from commissioners, directors, education and capital employed efficiency exhibit a non significant impact on Tobins'Q, while all variables are statistically non significant for ROA. The findings are less conclusive than that of previous studies in developed countries. This study provides recent evidence for the corporate governance and intellectual capital in affecting firm peformance of listed-firms in Indonesian Stock Exchange. Though most listed-firms in Indonesia is owned by group or family, the appointment should be strictly complied to the regulations set, as current evidence indicates that independent commissioners and directors have no impact on firm performance, hence an awareness of good corporate governance conduct should be massively disseminated.

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This study attempts to examine the impact of working capital management (WCM) on profitability and examine the working capital conditions of several companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The sample used is 135 listed firms and were selected from each sector, such as plantation, pharmaceutical, telecommunication, investment, retail, and the cement and metal industries from 2000 to 2019. The variables employed in this study are working capital investment strategy (WCIS), working capital financing strategy (WCFS), cash conversion cycle (CCC), days sales outstanding (DSO), days inventory outstanding (DIO), days payable outstanding (DPO), debt ratio (DR), size, age, and current ratio (CR). The ordinary least squares (OLS) was employed to analyze the data. The results revealed that the working capital investment approach has a positive and significant effect on return on assets (ROA) in all regression models used; the working capital financing approach has a negative effect on ROA but not significant; the working capital investment approach to the gross profit margin in all models shows a negative and significant coefficient; and the working capital financing approach shows a negative and significant sign for all capital used. Based on the type of industry, companies that use a lot of aggressive working capital investment approaches are the agriculture industry and the infrastructure, utility and transportation industries. Meanwhile, companies that mostly take a conservative working capital investment approach are the consumer goods industry, the basic chemical industry and the miscellaneous industry. Contribution/Originality: This study is one of very few studies that have investigated working capital management on profitability and also examines the working capital conditions of several companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) using considerable and diverse firms as the sample. tenure of current liabilities and choose the right kind of debt that matches the tenure of a firm's assets. Working capital is required for a firm to carry out its daily operations. Working capital is the overall value of a firm's current assets, which are also referred to as gross working capital, and consist of cash, receivables, inventory Asian Economic and Financial Review

Abstract:The committee on board includes audit committee and nomination committee that currently has been questioned as to whether the firm value is also affected by the committees' performance that has been the subject of attention. Apparently, this study is the first to attempt providing an evidence of committees' role on to the extent of its contribution to firm value in the context of Indonesian Sharia-listed firms as the establishment of Islamic-compliance firms is currently experiencing an upward trend in many countries. Hence it is enticing to examine the impact of committee on board as part of corporate governance mechanisms on firm value in the Indonesian Sharia-listed firms. Using an Indonesian Sharia-listed firms which counts for 30 firms in the quarterly period of 2009 to 2015, this study employs a 720 balanced panel, using Generalized Least Square. The results reveal that the audit committee and the nomination committee have a significant impact on firm value (Tobin's Q). The non-significant result for ROA suggesting that the mixed measured of book and market is viewed more reliable for investors as it indicates the overall performance measure. Meanwhile the result of the number of audit committee meeting yielded no significant impact on firm value; this may be due to no restrictions on the number of positions of audit committee serves in firms, therefore,

This study attempts to investigate the impact of board structure and ownership structure on firm performance of blue chip firms listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. Blue chip firms is referred as LQ45 in Indonesian Stock Exchange, and it consists of 45 the most liquid firms among other firm listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange. Using balanced panel of 45 blue chip firms which spans from 2010 to 2014; this study employs a logistic regression. The findings reveal that apart from independent commissioner and audit committee, all variables have a significant impact on firm performance.

This study aims to compare the financial performance between foreign and domestic mining firms in Indonesia for a period of 2012-2016. Not only comparing the financial performance, this study is also aimed at analyzing the impact of liquidity ratio, solvability ratio and activity ratio on financial performance and at analyzing which ratio provides the highest contribution on the financial performance of foreign and domestic mining firms in Indonesia for a period of 2012-2016. The total sample employed is 15 foreign firms (PMA) and 15 domestic firms (PMDN). The independent variable used is liquidity ratio, solvability ratio and activity ratio in which each proxies used are current ratio (CR), debt to equity ratio (DER) dan total assets turnover (TATO). Meanwhile the dependent variable used is profitability ratio in which proxies used are return on assets (ROA) dan return on equity (ROE). The analysis technique used in this study is independent samples t-test and multiple regression equation. The results reveal that: (1) There is no significance difference of variance value for all variables (CR, DER, TATO, ROA dan ROE) between foreign and domestic firms; (2) Apart from CR, TATO, ROA and ROE, only debt to equity ratio (DER) shows a significance difference for foreign and domestic firms; (3) CR, DER, TATO, ROA and ROE for foreign firms is better than domestic firms; (4)Ccurrent ratio (X1), debt to equity ratio (X2), and total assets turnover (X3) have a positive and significant impact simultaneously on the financial performance for both return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) for foreign and domestic firms; (5) Total assets turnover (X3) is the only variable providing the highest contribution to the improvement of financial performance for both return on assets and return on equity for foreign and domestic firms. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan kinerja keuangan antara perusahaan pertambangan asing dan domestik di Indonesia periode 2012-2016. Tidak hanya itu, penelitian ini juga menganalisis pengaruh rasio likuiditas, rasio solvabilitas dan rasio aktivitas terhadap kinerja keuangan perusahaan serta menganalisis rasio manakah yang memberikan kontribusi paling besar terhadap kinerja keuangan perusahaan pertambangan asing dan domestik di Indonesia periode 2012-2016. Total sampel yang digunakan adalah 15 PMA dan 15 PMDN. Variabel independen dalam penelitian ini adalah rasio likuiditas, rasio solvabilitas dan rasio aktivitas dengan masing-masing proksi current ratio (CR), debt to equity ratio (DER) dan total assets turnover (TATO). Sedangkan variabel dependen adalah rasio profitabilitas yang diproksikan dengan return on assets (ROA) dan return on equity (ROE). Teknik analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah uji beda dua sampel (independent samples t-test) serta persamaan regresi berganda (multiple regression equation). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) tidak terdapat perbedaan secara signifikan nilai varian untuk semua variabel (CR, DER, TATO, ROA dan ROE) untuk kedua kelompo...

This article investigates the effect of Islamic debt announcement on stock returns. Using data from 80 Malaysian firms and 20 Indonesian firms, which span from 2000 to 2009, an event study analysis is employed in this study; hence, the data of the daily closing stock prices for 2 years prior and 1 year after the announcement date are required in order to calculate the abnormal return using the abnormal return benchmark (mean adjusted return, market adjusted return and market model return). The findings for the event study analysis, using three benchmarks, reveal that there is a negative and significant impact for both average abnormal returns (AAR) and cumulative average abnormal returns (CAAR) for Malaysia. In contrast to the findings for Malaysia, the impact of Islamic debt announcement, using three benchmarks, is positive and significant for both AAR and CAAR for Indonesia. The unit root test result for Malaysia indicates that the market is efficient in the context of weak form efficiency, which suggests that the price movements are unpredictable. In contrast to Malaysia, the unit root test result for Indonesia indicates that the market is inefficient in the context of weak form efficiency, which suggests that the price movements are predictable.