Hariem Ahmed Abdullah
Accounting Department, College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani
Email: [email protected]
DOI: 10.23918/ICABEP2021p32
Abstract
The purposes of this study is to investigate the impact of profitability and leverage ratios on the determination of dividend policy for Turkish financial firms listed on Borsa Istanbul. In order to do so, secondary longitudinal data were collected for the listed financial firms from DataStream database over the period 2005-2017. The research expects that both profitability and leverage have significant correlation with dividend payout ratio. Consistent to the findings of the majority of the prior empirical studies, the results of this study found that both profitability and leverage are negatively associated with dividend payout ratio.
Keywords: Dividend policy, Profitability, Leverage, financial firms, and Borsa Istanbul.
ICABEP2021
International Conference on Accounting, Business, Economics and Politics
3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.
