The article discusses the concept of value-based management adapted to the specificity of public cultural institutions. The adaptation process involves mainly the consideration of the advantages generated by cultural institutions and the application of a discount rate in social calculations. The presented concept makes it possible to assess the social rationale behind the activity of non-commercial cultural institutions. In order to explain the suggested solutions better, a numerical example illustrating the methodology covered in the paper has been used.
PL
W artykule zaprezentowano koncepcję zarządzania wartością VBM dostosowaną do specyfiki publicznych instytucji kultury. Proces dostosowawczy obejmuje przede wszystkim uwzględnienie społecznych korzyści generowanych przez instytucje kultury oraz zastosowanie w kalkulacji społecznej stopy dyskontowej. Prezentowana koncepcja umożliwia ocenę społecznej racjonalności działalności prowadzonej przez niekomercyjne instytucje kultury. W celu lepszego zobrazowania proponowanych rozwiązań przedstawiono przykład liczbowy prezentujący omawianą w artykule metodykę.
Using the firm-level panel data for Polish companies, we analyze the determinants of liability maturity with particular attention paid to the factors of financing constraints and information asymmetry. Consistent with prior research, we find that asset tangibility, liquidity, leverage and profitability significantly influence liability maturity choices. Additionally, we evidence that financing constraints may alter the impact of these factors. Companies identified as being financially constrained appear to have lower maturity of liabilities. Firms quoted on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange are shown to hold a higher proportion of long-term liabilities compared to those quoted on New Connect, a stock exchange dedicated to young small cap companies. We also find that constrained status may determine firm’s financing decisions under crisis settings. Our empirical results show that companies experiencing financing constraints are likely to reduce liability maturity during a crisis, while their unconstrained counterparts may recur to additional long-term external financing in order to accommodate the repercussions of a trough. These findings contribute to the discussion of the financing constraints theory and shed light on some of the firms’ tactical financing decisions in an emerging economy
Purpose – The article investigates the patterns of asset impairment recognition in search of signs of “big bath” earnings management practices across an internationally diversified sample of public companies. It also elucidates the incentives that may underlie such practices and explores possible safeguards embedded in the existing corporate governance mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach – The article applied static panel and binary logit models to an international firm-level panel dataset of 1045 public companies observed between 2003 and 2018. Findings – Our empirical results suggest that recognition of asset impairment has no determinate impact on earnings volatility. Investigating the possibility of “big bath” earnings management practices, the authors found no impact of asset impairment recognition on total senior executive compensation in firms, which pay performance-based remuneration. The quality of corporate governance has appeared to impact the firms’ intertemporal proclivity to recognize asset impairment with those having the more entrenched and management-controlled boards being more likely to time impairment recognition by delaying it during exceptionally good and exceptionally bad years. While generally unlikely, recognition of asset impairment in a period with a recorded negative operating performance is found to be closely associated with key executive departures. Originality/value – The article corroborates the salient role of corporate governance mechanisms in shaping the intertemporal patterns of asset impairment recognition. The possible remedies to the phenomenon should be derived therefrom.
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