Dividend Payout Policy in Respect of company Performance: An Overview of Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

  • Nisar Ahmad Bazmi Lahore College for Women University, Lahore
  • Ayesha Sandhu Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan
  • Husnain Mubashar Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Lahore-Pakistan
  • Laiba Abrar Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan
Keywords: Dividend Payout Policy, Municipal supremacy index, descriptive statistics, correlation exploration regression, debt and equity ratios

Abstract

Purpose: The suggestion between dividend distribution policies and the commercial success of Pakistani cement business is explained by the current study.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Four factors were used to control the relationship between the dividend distribution strategy and business success, taking into account pertinent theories. These factors include the firm's Extent and growth, its debt to equity ratio and its municipal supremacy index. Over the course of six years from 2012 to 2017 panel data was used.

Findings: The study lays out a route that may direct further investigation into more definitive and useful discoveries. Future research may be examined the potential upshots of tax laws, regulations, occasions, and bonus payout patterns on upshotiveness and payout strategy would likely be of interest to academics and other stakeholder. Future research should take into account additional controlling analysts and industry performs, to see if they can be significant in creating a bonus strategy.

Implications/Originality/Value: Present-day investigation's discoveries has a number of ramifications and help to simplify the bonus payout strategy's business performs in non-fiscal firms in Pakistan's top manufacturing sectors. Given that pay out-based bonus payout rules increase a firm's upshotiveness, fiscal executives are advised to develop a commitment to these rules and take steps to stabilize their bonus payment rules.

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Author Biographies

Ayesha Sandhu, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan

Research Scholar, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan

Husnain Mubashar, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Lahore-Pakistan

PhD Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Lahore-Pakistan

Laiba Abrar, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan

Research Scholar, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore-Pakistan

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Published
2023-12-31
How to Cite
Bazmi, N. A., Sandhu, A., Mubashar, H., & Abrar, L. (2023). Dividend Payout Policy in Respect of company Performance: An Overview of Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan. Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 9(4), 537-552. https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v9i4.2789