Nabil Ahmed Mareai Senan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of financial performance, firm liquidity and financial leverage of Indian listed firms. This study uses both static models (pooled, fixed, and random effects) and Generalized Moment Methods (GMM). Financial leverage (FINLE) is defined by the ratio of total liabilities to total assets, whereas the current ratio and the quick ratio are used as firm liquidity factors. Further, a set of financial performance determinants such as return on assets, profit after tax, return on capital employed, return on equity, and Tobin-Q are used as independent factors. The results indicated that profit after tax, return on equity, return on capital employed, and Tobin-Q are the most significant financial success variables that influence financial leverage of Indian listed companies. Furthermore, profit after tax, return on capital invested, return on equity, and Tobin-Q are considered to have a substantial effect on financial leverage among the financial success indicators. In the case of firm liquidity, the findings show that the current ratio and the quick ratio have a substantial effect on the financial leverage of Indian listed companies.

This study aims to examine the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure determinants on profitability of Yemeni Islamic financial institutions. The empirical study was based on a balanced panel for twelve years from 2005 to 2016. Banks’ profitability is measured by four indicators such as return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), profit after tax (PAT), and earnings per share (EPS), while corporate social responsibility, financial leverage, inflation rate, asset size, and age of Islamic banks are considered as independent variables. The results of this study with regard to ROA indicated that corporate social responsibility, asset size, inflation rate, and age of Islamic banks have a significant influence on profitability (ROA). With respect to ROE, the result indicated that financial leverage, asset size, and inflation rate are the most important variables affecting bank profitability (ROE). Concerning PAT, the outcome revealed that financial leverage and age of Islamic banks have a significant effect on profitability (PAT). Finally, the result with respect to EPS indicated that financial leverage, asset size, inflation rate, and age of Islamic banks have a significant impact on bank profitability (EPS). The result will be beneficial to scholars, investors, stakeholders, managers, and policymakers in the Islamic financial sector.

This study examines the influence of corporate-specific factors and external factors on capital adequacy of Indian banks listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). This study used a GMM estimation (pooled, fixed, and random) for the period 2009–2018 to study thirty-seven Indian listed commercial banks. Banks’ capital adequacy (CAAD) is used as a dependent variable measured by equity to total assets. While corporate specifics factors include bank size, asset quality, liquidity ratio, deposit ratio, asset management, operating efficiency, return on assets, net interest margin, and non-interest income, external factors are economic activity, exchange rate, and interest rate. The results of this paper found that the deposit ratio, asset management, bank size, and operating efficiency are the main factors influencing banks’ CAAD of Indian listed firms during the period of the study. The outcomes revealed that the deposits ratio, asset management, and bank size have a negative and significant influence on banks’ CAAD, while operating efficiency has a positive and significant impact on CAAD. In terms of external indicators, the results revealed that gross domestic product and interest rate have a negative and significant effect on CAAD of Indian listed banks, except that the exchange rate has a positive and significant influence on CAAD.

Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank the Arab Open University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for supporting this research paper.

This paper aims to analyze the link between the disclosure of zakat information and the performance of Islamic financial institutions in Yemen. Panel data of three Islamic banks working in Yemen were used. The study used a 16-item disclosure index to measure zakat disclosure information, and the financial performance of banks was calculated using two proxies, such as return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Based on secondary data, this study used correlation matrix, descriptive analysis and regression analysis. ROA results revealed that zakat data and the age of a bank significantly affected financial results calculated by ROA, while the size of Islamic banks had an insignificant influence of banking performance. Zakat information and the size of Islamic banks have a positive effect on bank performance, while the age of the bank negatively influences the performance of banks. The results concerning ROE indicated that zakat data and the age of a bank have a strong and significant influence on the performance of banks, determined by ROA, while the size of a bank has a negative and insignificant effect on the performance of banks, determined by ROE.