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    The Impact of Dividend Policy on Shareholders’ Wealth and Business Performance of Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dilshani, L.D.C.; Abeywardhana, D.K.Y.
    The Dividend policy play a major role in current business as most important financial policy not only from the viewpoint of the company, but also from that of the shareholders, the consumers, employees, regulatory bodies and the government. The study aims to identify how the dividend policy influences the shareholders ‘wealth and the business performance of listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. Dividend per share (DPS) and Dividend yield (DY) use as Dividend policy indicators while Return on Equity (ROE) use as business performance indicator and earning per share (EPS) and Market share price (MSP) use as shareholders’ wealth indicator. The study use secondary data of 30 manufacturing companies covering the period of 2012 to 2017. Data analyze using regression analysis. The result reveals that dividend policy has significant positive impact on shareholders’ wealth and the business performance of listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. The previous empirical studies provide evidences that dividend policy has significant positive impact on shareholders’ wealth and the business performance
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    The Impact of Dividend Policy on Shareholders’ Wealth and Business Performance of Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dilshani, L.D.C.; Abeywardhana, D.K.Y.
    The dividend policy plays a major role in current business as most important financial policy not only from the viewpoint of the company, but also from that of the shareholders, the consumers, employees, regulatory bodies and the Government. The study aims to identify how the dividend policy influences to the shareholders ‘wealth and the business performance of listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. Dividend per share (DPS) and Dividend payout (DPO) were used as Dividend policy indicators while Return on Equity (ROE) used as business performance indicator and earning per share (EPS) and Market share price (MSP) used as shareholders’ wealth indicator. The study used secondary data of 41 manufacturing companies covering the period of 2012 to 2017. Data were analyzed using regression analysis and EViews package.The result reveals that dividend policy has positively significance impact on shareholders’ wealth and the business performance of listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka
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    Impact between Dividend Policy & Share Price Volatility; Evidence from Manufacturing Firms Listed in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Jayamanna, K.D.A.P.; Wijesinghe, K.D.G.N.
    Dividend policy is one of the main indicators of any organization and especially all investors are concerning about the dividend policy. This study aims to identify how dividend policy affects to the share price. Research is focused on manufacturing sectors as it a fast growing industry sector. Data collected on 20 listed manufacturing companies for the period of 8 years from 2011-2018. Dividend policy measured through Dividend yield, Earnings volatility, Dividend Payout ratio. Growth in asset, Firm size were used as control variables. In order to measure relationship between dividend policy and stock prices, data were analyzed using regression analysis. The result reveals that Dividend payout has significant positive impact on share price volatility and dividend yield has negative impact on share price volatility and Firm size, earning volatility, asset growth explain the stock price volatility.