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- Ayalew Ali; Bayelign Abebe
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- PLOS ONE · Public Library of Science · 2024-05-14
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- Adjacent research, not a directly sampled family-office study. Applicability to a family office requires separate assessment. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the literature review and develops the hypotheses; Section 3 describes the research method; Section 4 reports result and discussions; the last section concludes the paper and offers suggestions and directions for future research. The findings of the study are subject to limitations. First, the financial policy indicators selected for the study were limited to only debt policy however; financial policy is also proxied by, dividend policy and investment policy. Therefore, should be more research done in this area, taking into account investment and dividend policies. Second, the corporate governance related explanatory variables that have been used for this study where: board size, board meeting and board gender diversity and the explanatory variables used for balance sheet features are asset size, liquidity and asset tangibility. Those variables are not the only variables that affect the financial policy of cooperatives under the study area. Third, probability-sampling method was not applied to select the sample from the population, which reduces the sample bias. Finally, the results of this study are not generalized to other sectors other than cooperatives. Therefore, investigations will be made including other institutions.
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