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Effect of Capital Structure on Financial Performance of Selected Commercial Banks in Rwanda: A Case of Bank of Kigali, Equity Bank and I&M Bank
No full textThe global financial crisis of 2007-2009 highlighted the importance of bank Managerial efficiency and effectiveness. This study seeks to assess the effect of capital structure on financial performance of commercial banks in Rwanda. The aim of the study is to examine the effects of Capital structure on financial performance of listed commercial Banks in Rwanda, a case study of selected commercial banks in Rwanda (BK, I&M bank, Equity). It is important to distinguish the banking sector from the general financial sectors and other sectors. The banking industry being a key pillar in the financial industry and economy as a whole needed to be studied in this context. This study was prompted by the knowledge gap generated by the insufficient studies and inconsistent findings about the effects of capital structure. By shedding light on the impact of capital structure on the financial performance of listed commercial banks in Rwanda, the research study's findings were helpful to the management of BK, I&M Bank, and Equity, investors, shareholders, and academics, as well as the government of Rwanda, the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE), and the Capital Market Authority (CMA). Leverage level affects a listed commercial bank's financial performance, according to capital structure theories (including the irrelevance theory of capital structure, the Trade-off theory, the pecking order theory, and the agency cost theory that have been investigated). This study adopted descriptive research design. Therefore the overall annual financial reports of 10 of Commercial Banks formed the target population. The main source of data for the study was Secondary data. The financial and income statements panel data covering seven year period from 2016 to 2022 summarized and ratios calculate and analyse using SPSS version 20 to produce inferential statistics using multiple regression analysis so as to determine the relationships between dependent and independent variables. The multiple regression models used considered performance as the dependent variable and was measured in terms of ROA and ROE. Time series data from 2016 to 2022 extracted from the financial statement of the selected banks, and descriptive statistics, financial analysis techniques and ratios, correlation analysis and regression used to determine how capital structure affect the financial profitability of commercial banks. Different research findings revealed that films with a positive foreign equity share performed better after the global financial crisis, it was argued by literature that, this could be because FDI is the more stable source of financing for firms and is less prone to sudden outflow. Moreover, it could provide firms with access to an internal capital market when external markets are tight or distressed. The focus of this paper is selected Bank’s equity share to the total foreign liabilities, the research findings shows that the selected banks grew by 18.8 percent on account of the growth of deposits and capital. The capital position of the banking sector remained above regulatory requirements. As at end June 2022, the aggregate Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of banks stood at 23.1 percent, higher than the minimum regulatory requirement of 15 percent. Selected Banks continue to hold adequate liquidity buffers both in short- and long-term perspective.as at the end of December 2022 The Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) that measures the ability of banks to fund cash outflows for 30 days stood at 224.7 percent, well above the minimum requirement of 100 percent. During the same period, the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) that gauges whether banks hold enough stable funding to cover the duration of their long-term assets stood at 130.9 percent, higher than 100 percent minimum regulatory requirement. Despite the improvement in bank loan book indicators, credit risk remains the major risk facing the banking industry. The financial sector is expected to remain sound and stable on the back of sufficient capital and liquidity buffers. However, risks remain due to heightened uncertainties in global and domestic macroeconomic environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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