The impact of liquidity on bank profitability: Case of Tunisia (Published)
Liquidity and profitability are two important variables in the banking industry. In this article, we studied. The impact of liquidity on bank profitability in the Tunisian context. We used a sample of 18 banks over the period (2000…2017). We employ 2 models of panel static in the empirical research. We found that (liquid assets / total assets) and (total credits / total deposits) have a positive and significant impact on return on assets (ROA) whereas (current assets / current liabilities) have not significant impact on ROA. Also, we found that (liquid assets / total assets), and (total credits / total deposits) have a negative and significant impact on ROE (return on equity). Whereas (current assets / current liabilities) have not significant impact on ROE.
Keywords: Bank, Liquidity, Profitability, panel
The Application of Accounting System at SMES in Pematangsiantar (Published)
One of the weakness of a small or medium business especially in Pematangsiantar is that they do not implement an adequate system of financial records or in another word, he does not apply accounting system in his business. Accounting provides information on the resources available to a firm, the means employed to finance those resources, and the results achieved through their use. Mostly, small and medium enterprises in Pematangsiantar does not apply the accounting system for their business management because of some problems, there are: the business is a small business, it will spend much money applying accounting system, less knowledge regarding to it
Keywords: Accounting System; Business, Bank, Business Industry, UMKM
A Critical Analysis of Financial Performance of Agricultural Development Bank (Adb, Ghana) (Published)
Until recently, many of the banks in developing countries were state owned or locally established with varied mandates to focus on different sectors of the economy. Some of these state banks are bedevilled with peculiar set of challenges making some of them inefficient and unprofitable and in some instances insolvent. Financial performance analysis is aimed at keeping the banks in checks by highlighting low and high performance areas with the understanding that it will bring about improvement in performance. The PELARI (Profitability, Efficiency, Liquidity, Asset Quality, Risk Measures and Investor analyses) model was developed for analysis by the researchers which is similar to the CAMELS’ rating. Financial ratio analysis is employed in the analysis. Troubled signals models such as the Altman z-score for non-manufacturing companies and risk index were also used to measure risk. The Altman z-score generated for 2011 and 2012 showed a figure of less than 1.1 which put the bank in the distress zone category. It was evident from the analysis that ADB’s focus on agricultural financing is diminishing since a sector analysis of loans and advances indicates that the agriculture sector lost its first position to the services sector which recorded 38% compared with agriculture 29% in 2012. The bank’s liquidity showed a downward trend and slipped further down in 2010 confirming the Ghana Banking Survey (2011) assessment that the bank is illiquid.
Keywords: Analysis, Bank, Development, Financial Performance, Liquidity