The study was conducted to examine the determinants on the choice of a Big Four auditor of listed firms in the Vietnamese stock market. Data were hand-collected from 511 non-financial firms in the period 2015 – 2017. The research results show that ownership concentration and foreign ownership had a positive significant impact on the choice of a high-quality Big Four auditor. Meanwhile, board size was negatively associated with the selection of large auditing firms. However, there was no statistical evidence on the effect of the proportion of independent directors and CEO duality on the likelihood of choosing a Big Four auditor.

This article focuses on identifying the determinants of financial decisions of the firms. To accomplish this section, the author collects data of 110 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, over the period of 2011-2018. For the analytical methods, the author uses Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to estimate the study model. This method has the great advantage which is able to control the potential endogenous and overcome the regression hypotheses that are violated. The study results show that financial decisions (FD) are negatively affected by the return on assets (ROA), liquidity (LIQ), and tangibility (TANG). In addition, the financial decisions (FD) are also positively affected by the firm size (SIZE). With these findings, the firm managers will have a solid basis to make financial decisions appropriately.

The paper examines the impact of corporate governance (CG), capital structure (CS) on firm value (FV) of firms in Vietnam. The study used different regression methods using the data collected at enterprises listed on the stock market in Vietnam over the period 2008 - 2018, with 2937 observations. The research results find that the size of the Board of Directors, the independence of the Board of Directors, the percentage of women participating in the Board of Directors had a positive influence on FV. Besides, in the case of the Chairman of the Board of Directors controlling the CEO, the frequency of the Board meeting had a negative effect on FV. The study has determined that CS has nonlinear influence on FV, in addition, the research results also prove that firm size had positive relationship to FV. The empirical research results are a useful basis to help businesses improve FV, thereby helping businesses need to consider the elements of the Board of Directors in each enterprise, determine the appropriate capital structure.

This paper studies the impact of the factors reflecting the capital structure on the performance of construction companies listed on the Vietnam Stock Exchange by using a sample of 59 listed construction companies in three years (177 observations). This research is accomplished by applying a linear regression model and correlation analysis. The results show that: (1) factors such as number of years of operation, asset size, debt/equity do not affect return on assets (ROA) and return on equities (ROE); (2) the factor of total fixed assets / total assets yields a positive and significant impact on ROA and ROE; (3) the ratios of total debt / total equity and long term debt / total equity maintain negative impacts on ROA; and (4) debt / equity has a strong positive effect on ROE.

This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of disclosure quality on capital structure in an Iranian Auto industry. The proposed study considers the financial information of the biggest Iranian automaker named Iran Khodro. The study gathers the necessary information from 18 Iran Khodor firms whose shares where accepted on Tehran Stock Exchange over the period 2008-2011. Using some statistical tests, the study has concluded that while there was not any meaningful relationship between disclosure quality and capital structure, market disclosure could influence positively on return on assets as well as return on equities.

This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of free cash flow, share diversification and capital structure on Tobin-Q in selected firms on Tehran Stock Exchange. The population of the survey includes 520 firms listed on this exchange until year 2012 and the survey uses a sample of 105 firms, randomly. The study uses the models originally developed by Palepu (1985) [Palepu, K. (1985). Diversification strategy, profit performance and the entropy measure. Strategic Management Journal, 6(3), 239-255.] to measure the effects of different factors on Tobin Q. The study has indicated that while capital structure and free cash flow influence positively on Tobin Q, diversification has maintained a negative and meaningful relationship with Tobin Q.

This study aims to determine the relationship between the capital structure and economic value added. In this context, the rates of total debt to total asset, total current debt to total asset, total long debt to total asset and total debt to total equity are distinguished as the measures of capital structure. The data used in this study consisted of a sample of 133 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2012. To analyze the data and to perform hypothesis tests, a linear regression model, based on combinatorial methods or data panel, and also a nonparametric Spearman correlation analysis have been applied. The results of the research hypothesis tests based on regression analysis revealed an insignificant relationship between capital structure and economic value added. Furthermore, the results showed that, there was an inverse moderate relationship between rate of total debt to total asset and total current debt to total asset with economic value added. There is an inverse weak relationship between rate of total long debt to total asset and total debt to total equity with economic value added.

Capital structure plays essential role on financial strength of business units and there are literally many studies to confirm the relationship between capital structure and return growth. In this paper, we re-examine this relationship by investigating on 12 Iranian private banks using structural equation modelling over the period 2005-2011. The proposed study of this paper designs a questionnaire and distributes it among experts and analyse it use LISREL software package. The result indicates that there is a positive and meaningful relationship, when the level of significance is five percent between capital structure and stock return in private banking industry in Iran. The implementation of Pearson and Spearman correlation tests also validate the findings.

One of the most complicated and challenging issues in today & apos; s financial managers is the relationship between the components of capital structure in terms of bonds and shares used for financing and share price of their company, and its effects on the macroeconomic variables. This research aims to study the relationship between the capital structure and performance of the production market in some firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). In this research, the index of capital structure is debt ratio and that of production market performance is sales growth and return of assets (ROA). The statistical sample of this research includes 128 companies, which have been active in 11 various industries and listed on TSE over the period 2005-2010. The statistical techniques used to test the hypotheses of this research include correlation coefficient and pooled least squares regression (panel data). Based on the results of our survey, there is a strong and significant relationship between debt ratio and return on assets among the companies listed on TSE and most industries especially based metals at the confidence level of 95%. In contrast, there is no strong and significant relationship between debt ratio and sales growth in the above-mentioned companies and in most industries.

Capital structure plays an important role on market growth investigation. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between capital structure as dependent variable and seven independent variables including tax rate, firms & apos; growth rate, fixed assets, firms & apos; size, operating risk, profitability and industry type. The proposed study of this paper uses the financial information of 107 selected companies from 18 different industries listed on Tehran Stock Exchange over the period of 2004-2011 covering 40% of total number of companies listed in this stock exchange. We use ordinary least square technique to study the relationships. The results of the survey indicate that the there is a positive relationship between tax rate and firm & apos; s growth rate, and capital structure. The result of the survey also indicates there is a negative relationship between firm & apos; s profitability and capital structure. However, there is no evidence to believe that there was any relationship between fixed assets and capital structure. We have also concluded that there was a negative relationship between firm & apos; s profitability and capital structure but the results of our survey did not indicate that there was any difference between the mean of profitability in various sectors.