The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between strategic planning as business management dimensions and financial management (FM) practices. To achieve this objective, employees from various firms working in Kuwait are under observation. A survey questionnaire is developed, considering fifteen items of strategic planning and five for financial management practices. A final sample of 276 respondents is considered for investigating the empirical relationship between the selected variables. Both descriptive and traditional linear regression modelling techniques are applied. However, the study findings are pre-tested through model specification for all five items of FM. It is found that various strategic planning items are significantly associated with financial management proxies including staff turnover, safeguarding physical and financial assets, and development of financial budgets in selected firms. Significance of the study can be viewed as emerging contribution in the present literature while assimilation strategic planning with financial management too. Besides, the study findings are useful for both strategic planning and finance departments in the business organizations for their better future development. Limitations of the study cover limited sample size and application of traditional method of analysis. Future studies should be in direction while addressing these boundaries.

This study focuses on the factors of financial supply chain (FSC), financial institutions, and inventory for supply chain efficiency through various cost dimensions. To address this objective, a questionnaire is developed, based on various items of selected variables and it is presented to a targeted sample of supply chain practitioners, business managers and industry experts. A final sample of 216 respondents is observed for both descriptive and inferential analysis. To check the significance of each indicator under FSC, financial institutions and inventory factors, confirmatory factor analysis is conducted. Empirical facts explain that factors like financial supply chain as risk prevention strategy had a significant influence on supply chain efficiency. Through inventory factors, communication with vendors for raw material also indicate a significant impact on efficiency of Supply Chain (SC). This study would help both industry experts and business managers integrate financial supply chain, inventory factors and financial institutions for cost efficiency of supply chain. The limitations of the study includes a limited sample size and restricted indicators of inventory management. Future studies can be implemented while addressing these limitations through improved econometric methods. .

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of five indicators of credit risk on four financial stability measures under the title of return on assets, return on equity, Z-Score of ROA, and ROE. While economic growth, inflation and financial sector development are added as control variables. Based on the sample of top 20 banks in GCC, regression models are developed for the financial stability, credit risk indicators and control variables. It is observed that NPLs (credit risk indicator) to gross advances is significantly impacting on all stability measures. While, the impact of non-performing loans to equity ratio on stability is also significant for the whole sample. Under first sub sample of top 10 banks, both non-performing loans to gross advances and provision against NPLs are significant determinants to create instability in the banks. Besides, effect of NPLs to equity ratio is found to be negatively significant for both ROA and ROE under 2nd sub sample of the study. The effect of financial sector development is positively significant for the banking sector stability in both full and sub samples. Contribution of the study can be viewed from both theoretical and practical context as it is a very first attempt to consider credit risk indicators, stability measures, financial sector development and economic growth for Gulf states. Core limitations covers the limited sample size and focus on the present decade which can be reconsidered with better sampling and adding the time duration of last decade as well.Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature from the context of credit risk and its integration with financial stability. Earlier studies have done their focus on emerged economies while GCC member states are not reasonable addressed.

Under the situation of complex business firms, organizations are trying to enhance their earning capacity while competing in the marketplace. The core objective of the present study is to consider the Trading Income Ratio as a core indicator of earning capacity of the business through both firms based and regional economic indicators during the first half of the present decade. For this purpose, size, LR, credit expansion through the provision of loans, BDPS, GDP, and CPI has been considered. The effect of robust regression equations along with fixed and random effect explains that size, LR, and GDP are among the significant predictors for the earning capacity from 2011 to 2015. For the difference between the coefficient of fixed and random effect, the Hausman test is applied which indicates that the marginal effect of stated indicators is acceptable which are not correlated with the individual entities. In addition, the comparison through OLS dummies, fixed and areg (a category of linear regression) explains that again the size, LR and GDP are found to be the significant determinants of business earnings in the region of Kuwait.

The key objective of present study analysis is to investigate the impact of various indicators on the value of debt to equity mixture (leverage) of the selected firms in the region of Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman during the time of 2011 to 2016. The key method being implemented in the present study is based on the robust multiple regression equations. The time of the study is from 2011 to 2016 with the factors like current assets, operating fixed assets, the net book value of fixed assets, admin expenses, earnings before interest and tax, return on assets, gross profit and finally the age of the firm. Findings of the study indicate that in the overall sample of the study key factors like of operating fixed assets along with net book value of the fixed assets has their significant contribution to predicting the value of financial leverage in the business. As per the originality/value of the study, it is found that in the selected region, this is a very first attempt to check the impact of selected indicators on the value of leverage over time. However, the limitation of the study includes the limited sample size which can be covered in the coming time for the better generalization of the results and suitable decisions. Besides, the study is contributing to existing literature while providing in-depth analysis of selected firms in three regions.