http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/122 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:34:52 GMT 2026-06-17T07:34:52Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12718 Title: A study of the relationship between financial leverage and profitability of listed chemicals and pharmaceuticals companies in Sri Lanka Authors: Saseela, S. Abstract: The major objective of this paper is to analyze and understand the relationship between financial leverage and profitability of the firm. This paper aims to know the impact of financial leverage on profitability for the listed Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals companies for the period from 2005 to 2010 in Sri Lanka. This study also explains the relationship of debt financing, total assets and size of the firm on the profitability of listed Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals companies in Sri Lanka. In this study, listed Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals companies are taken for analysis and hypothesis are examined with the help of Pearson's correlation and regression analysis. Simple least square model is used in the estimation of a function relating to the Return on equity with the independent variables including Equity multiplier, Total assets turnover, and size of the firm. The results indicate that debt negatively affects companies' profitability and Firms with high percentage of debt have less profitability. Further Total assets turnover positively affects companies' profitability and Firm size has a significant effect on companies' profitability. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12718 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12717 Title: Profitability of listed Telecom Companies in Sri Lanka: An inter and intra Comparison of SLT PLC & Dialog PLC Authors: Saseela, S.; Saradhadevi, A.; Subramaniam, V.A. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12717 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12716 Title: Capital Structure and Profitability of Listed Construction and Engineering Companies in Sri Lanka Authors: Saseela, S. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12716 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12715 Title: Impact of Board structure on Performance of listed Financing sector in Sri Lanka Authors: Balagobei, S.; Anandasayanan, S. Abstract: Over recent years, corporate governance has become a major and highly contentious issue in all advanced economies, as well as in developing countries. Board size and composition constitute two of the most prevalent corporate governance factors, attracting wide theoretical attention. This paper examines the relationship between two of the most pertinent corporate governance factors that is, the size of the Board of Directors and the proportion of non-executive directors and firm performance on a sample of 19 listed companies from financial sector over the period 2008-2010. Our results reveal that board size and board composition significantly impact on ROE and Tobin’s Q of the firms in financial sector. Further there is a negative relationship between the board size and firm performance but the positive relationship between board composition and the firm performance. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12715 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z