Purpose of Study: The objective of this study is to investigate the financial literacy among the SMEs in food and beverage sectors in Malaysia. Methodology: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in countries’ economic growth. However, the failure rate among SMEs getting higher. The literature stipulated that the lack of financial literacy is one of the main reasons caused this failure. Results: The results of 122 returned questionnaires shows that the socio-demographic factors such as age and marital status have influenced SME’s financial literacy. Moreover, the financial attitude and financial behavior found to be positively related to the financial literacy among the SMEs.
One of the main objectives of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the board variables (namely: board size, board meetings, board compositions, board diversity, and CEO duality), variables and Qatari financial institutions’ performance measured by ROA, ROE, and EPS. Another objective of this paper is to compare the performance of conventional financial institution are more profitable than Islamic ones. The study uses 56 listed financial institutions in the Qatari exchange market. The panel data regression was used to analyse the data in this paper. The results found that the board meeting is positively associated with all performance measures. Moreover, board size has a positive relationship with EPS while board compositions are positively associated with ROA. However, board diversity has a negative relationship with all performance measures. Finally, the results failed to report any statistically significant and negative relationship between CEO duality and financial institutions’ performance. In addition, the results indicate that Islamic institutions are of lower performance compared to non-Islamic institutions.
This study attempts to determine the factors influencing youth’s intention to venture into agriculture sector. Since Malaysia is a developing country, unemployment is one of a major issue especially youth unemployment. Malaysia government recognised that agriculture sector is an important sector to contribute nation GDP followed by service and manufacture. Government implemented actions through programmes for attracting youth’s intention. However, youth still lack of intention to venture into agriculture sector. Data was gathered through survey questionnaire on a total of 245 respondentswho are 15 to 40 years old. Data was analysed by using SPSS system and analyse methods are descriptive analysis, factor analysis, Chi square analysis and multiple regression analysis. Based on the result, it can conclude that youth’s intention will be affected by knowledge, attitude and acceptance as well as gender, age, marital status and education field of youth. By setting agriculture as an obligatory subject and offering agriculture based activities, there are recommended to government, agricultureagencies and universities to take responsibilities of attracting youth to venture into agriculture sector.
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