Background: Dividend and dividend policy is a research topic that is well known and frequently studied in financial economics. However there is no definite answer to if the dividend has an effect on the firm's value. The research surrounding dividend and its effect on firms value have shown a variety of different results. Aim: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the main independent variable dividend and control variables; total assets, revenue and Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) on the dependent variable stock price. Method: The paper will be done in a quantitative approach based on a deductive research approach. The sample data of 60 companies for this study will be collected through Business Retriever, Orbit, Morningstar and annual reports of each company between the years 2011 to 2020. Results: The results in this study show that dividend has a statistically significant effect on the stock price of the companies observed. Furthermore the results indicate that Earnings Before Interest and Taxes, EBIT, has amedium-strong relationship with stock price, which shows a small significant association. The study could not prove that revenues and total assets have an effect on stock price in the regression analysis. However in the correlation analysis it was shown that there was a reasonable relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables.

The cost of mining companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have not been immune to inflationary pressures. Increasing cost pressures, lower grades, and reduced electricity supply imply that management will have to apply rigorous cost saving measures to mitigate the effect on profits. One such measure is value based management (VBM). VBM is a powerful management framework with the aim to focus all managerial processes on shareholder wealth creation. It therefore encourages all staff levels within the organisation to focus on value creation. Various metrics have been developed to measure the value creation process within the organisation. Discounted cash flow to the present value at the weighted average cost of capital lies at the heart of these metrics. Through the use of value mapping, underlying value drivers are linked to the overall strategy of value creation. While value-based management is used to increase shareholder value, one of the serious drawbacks is the short-term focus on immediate results to the detriment of long-term sustainable competitive advantage. A quantitative study was done on the mining sector to determine if investors can use productivity as a value based management measurement to predict share price movement. The results from this study indicate that productivity measures do not influence share price. Productivity is good for determining shareholder value, but not adequate for determining stock performance. Even though it was found that investors do not rely on productivity measures, companies should still focus on creating value for the shareholders. It is beneficial to investors to understand what value based management is, and to understand management actions in terms of value creation. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.

The cost of mining companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have not been immune to inflationary pressures. Increasing cost pressures, lower grades, and reduced electricity supply imply that management will have to apply rigorous cost saving measures to mitigate the effect on profits. One such measure is value based management (VBM). VBM is a powerful management framework with the aim to focus all managerial processes on shareholder wealth creation. It therefore encourages all staff levels within the organisation to focus on value creation. Various metrics have been developed to measure the value creation process within the organisation. Discounted cash flow to the present value at the weighted average cost of capital lies at the heart of these metrics. Through the use of value mapping, underlying value drivers are linked to the overall strategy of value creation. While value-based management is used to increase shareholder value, one of the serious drawbacks is the short-term focus on immediate results to the detriment of long-term sustainable competitive advantage. A quantitative study was done on the mining sector to determine if investors can use productivity as a value based management measurement to predict share price movement. The results from this study indicate that productivity measures do not influence share price. Productivity is good for determining shareholder value, but not adequate for determining stock performance. Even though it was found that investors do not rely on productivity measures, companies should still focus on creating value for the shareholders. It is beneficial to investors to understand what value based management is, and to understand management actions in terms of value creation. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.

The thesis is a summary of the basic principles of bank trading focusing on the differences between business of traditional and "low-cost" banks. Furthermore, this thesis contains the analysis of operational revenues and costs of selected banks subsequently analyzed the structure of sources operational profit of selected traditional banks in comparison with selected "low-cost" banks in ČR. This thesis includes analyzis of trends that currently move the banking sector and following the trends analysis of non-banking services provided by banks in ČR which can be considered as an alternative source operational profit of traditional banks. The last part of the thesis includes evaluation of the survey, which was carried out to determine customer satisfaction with bank services in ČR.

[pt] A busca por modelos de avaliação cada vez mais precisos tem sido uma preocupação permanente no âmbito das finanças corporativas. No entanto, para que estes modelos gerem bons resultados, é preciso que estimativas do comportamento futuro de contas como receitas, custos, despesas e investimentos estejam bem avaliadas. Dentro deste contexto se insere a importância da previsão das taxas de crescimento. Elas dependem de diversos fatores, externos e internos à empresa e que são, muitas vezes, de extrema complexidade. Na tentativa de tornar esta estimativa mais objetiva, o presente trabalho procura avaliar a hipótese de que índices de mercado bastante utilizados pelos analistas financeiros, como preço de mercado da ação-lucro, preço de mercado da ação-valor patrimonial por ação e preço de mercado da ação - vendas, são capazes de fornecer indícios sobre o comportamento futuro das contas receita bruta, EBITDA e lucro operacional de empresas listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (BOVESPA) durante o período 1994-2003. Através do teste estatístico não- paramétrico de Wilcoxon, o estudo fornece indícios de que a variável preço de mercado da ação - valor patrimonial por ação possui valores maiores para empresas de baixo crescimento e menores para empresas de médio e alto crescimento. Para as variáveis preço-lucro e preço-vendas não se observam diferenças significativas de valor entre os grupos de baixo, médio ou alto crescimento. / [en] The search for more accurate evaluation models has been a permanent activity within the field of corporative finances. A successful model must forecast, with a high degree of confidence and accuracy, the future behavior of incomes, costs, expenditures and investments. Companies´ growth rates are also important; they depend on several internal and external factors and their evaluation can be a very complex task. Our work evaluates critically some valuation ratios used by financial analysts like: price-to-earnings, market-to-book and price-to-sales ratios, in order to obtain useful information about the following itens future behavior: Gross Revenue, EBITDA and Operating Profit of companies listed at São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) during the period 1994-2003. The Wilcoxon´s nonparametric test suggests: an inverse relationship between the market- to-book index to the registered companies growth rate and no noticeable relationship between price-to-earnings ratios and price-to-sales ratios to the same companies´ growth rate.

[pt] A recente internacionalização da economia, o processo de integração dos mercados e a perspectiva de obtenção de condições competitivas via maior escala suscitaram a reestruturação produtiva e fomentaram a maior concentração econômica por meio de contínuas fusões e aquisições de empresas. Esta situação insere o estudo acerca das taxas de crescimento de indicadores contábeis das companhias entre os temas mais relevantes no âmbito das finanças corporativas. As variáveis contábeis utilizadas neste trabalho foram as taxas de crescimento anuais da receita bruta, do EBITDA e do lucro operacional de empresas listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (BOVESPA) durante o período 1994-2002. A conclusão acerca da variabilidade e da não-persistência destas taxas de crescimento constitui-se obstáculo aos exercícios de previsão no mercado brasileiro. Simulações adicionais foram realizadas visando auferir o efeito do porte e dos múltiplos de transação das respectivas ações destas empresas sobre as taxas de crescimento. Visando maior detalhamento sobre a forte resistência à persistência de taxas anuais consecutivas superiores à mediana do mercado durante os oito anos de análise, foram aplicados testes econométricos essenciais ao modelo ARIMA (Box e Jenkins), constatando a não correlação e a não correlação parcial das taxas de crescimento anuais das empresas para todas as variáveis analisadas, caracterizando um processo clássico de white noise e fornecendo indícios para um comportamento típico de random walk ou random walk with drift. / [en] The recent economy internationalization, the market integration process and the perspective of obtaining differentiated conditions through scale led to production restructuring and fomented a higher economic concentration by means of continuous mergers and acquisitions of companies. This scenario inserts the study of the variability and persistence of growth rates of accounting indicators of companies among the most relevant subjects of corporate finance. The accounting variables selected in this work were the annual growth rates of the gross revenue, of the EBITDA and of the operating profit of companies listed at São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) during the period 1994-2002. The observed variability and the non persistence of the growth rates represents a relevant obstacle to forecasting exercises in the Brazilian market. Additional simulations were performed, in order to test the effect of the firms` size and of the transaction multiples of their respective stocks ont growth rates. Looking for a deeper understanding of the strong resistance to the persistence of consecutive annual rates above market median values along the eight years period of analysis, econometric tests essential to ARIMA model (Box and Jenkins) were applied, and the resuts portrayed the non correlation and non-partial correlation between the annual growth rates for all variables, characterizing a classical white noise process, signaling a typical random walk or a random walk with drift behavior.

This thesis is dealing with a performance measure Economic Value Added and its application in the optimalization of company´s products structure. In the first part of this thesis is analysis of the company, theory of Economic Value Added and adjustments of accounting model that lead to the economic model. Following main part is focused on unit products of company and its calculations of Economic Value Added. Last part suggests a new company´s product structure with regard to EVA results.

This thesis deals with evaluation of the utility of modern methods of evaluation of the financial situation of the company and their comparison with older, classic indicators. The theoretical part deals with the financial analysis of the company and the classical indicators and with the modern indicator Economic value added. This paper describes the concept of the EVA indicator and the transformation of the accounting data leading to the economic data and the items entering the calculation of the EVA are defined in detail. The practical part contains calculations of classical indicators based on the accounting data of company Kern-Liebers in years 2012-2016. The main part of this thesis deals with transformation of accounting data of the company for subsequent calculation of the EVA indicator. In addition, the EVA indicator is decomposed, the company is compared with sectoral values by using the INFA system and in the last step the results of the classical indicators with the modern EVA indicator are compared and the conclusions are interpreted.

The financial situation and financial economy could be controlled by a whole range of indicators in the time progress and context so that the evaluation of the situation may reflect the whole economic state of the company and enable to point out causes of the actual situation. If the company shall be economically succesful, the financial planning and analysis has to be a part of the complex of the company´s financial management, because it provides a feedback between the expected effect of managing decisions and present. This diploma work is focused on detection of weak and strong characteristics of the company. All datas used in analysis are taken from the public sources and internal company documentation. The point of my diploma thesis was to present a financial analysis containing my theoretical experience, which I gained during my study at the VUT.Brno.

This diploma work assess the financial health of the company in the years 2002–2006 on the basis of selected methods of the financial analysis. It includes proposals of possible solutions of identified problems which should result in the improvement of financial situation of the firm in the following years.