Examining Liquidity, Growth Strategy, Capital Structure, and Earnings Growth

Business leaders might have an incomplete understanding of growth drivers. Grounded in the firm growth theory, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between liquidity, growth strategy, capital structure, and earnings growth. Multiple regression was used to identify a predictive model. The results indicated no statistically significant relationship between liquidity, growth strategy, capital structure, and earnings growth. The study\u27s findings have implications for positive social change as business leaders might direct resources from project investments to support social programs in the local community. Recommended Citation Posey, S. R. (2020, October 1-2). Examining liquidity, growth strategy, capital structure, and earnings growth [Poster presentation]. Walden University Research Conference 2020 (online). https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/researchconference/2020/posters/15

Insect pest management approaches among currently recommended sugarcane varieties in Louisiana

The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.), (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is responsible for more than 90% of the total insect damage to sugarcane in Louisiana. The decision to apply insecticides is complex and influenced by numerous variables. Included among these variables are insect infestation levels, varieties, weather conditions, production input levels, and environmental concerns. Predicting damage that may result from infestations occurring at a particular time of the crop production season is also important. The objective of this research was to evaluate the impact of these variables on sugarcane borer populations and subsequent yield loss. Results from a two-year survey indicated a state average of 2% sugarcane borer damaged internodes in the 2000 growing season and revealed that most fields received only one application of insecticide. However, in Central Louisiana, where spring rainfall occurred, some fields required three insecticide applications for sugarcane borer control. In 2001, the survey showed a state average of 4% bored internodes, and most fields received less than one application of insecticide. In a two-year sugarcane borer management study conducted at the St. Gabriel Research Station, St. Gabriel, Louisiana, results from the plant cane crop (2001) and from the first ratoon crop (2002) showed some differences among the variety-management threshold regimes in percent bored internodes resulting from sugarcane borer larval feeding. For the resistant variety HoCP85-845, all thresholds for percent bored internodes were not significantly different from the untreated control, suggesting some flexibility in management when using the recommended 5% threshold level. In 2001for the highly susceptible variety HoCP91-555, the 10 percent threshold had significantly higher percent bored internodes than did the 5% and 5%/10% threshold treatments. HoCP91-555 also reached insecticide treatment levels before the other varieties. The selected threshold management regimes varied insecticide application timing and frequency to maintain sugarcane borer infestations below the designated thresholds. This study showed the importance of rainfall as a contributing factor for an increase in sugarcane borer levels and the role of resistant and highly susceptible varieties in a management strategy

The Infra‐Red Absorption Spectrum of Mono‐Deutero‐Ethane under High Resolution

The infra‐red spectrum of C2H5D has been investigated under high resolution. As expected, the bands corresponding to degenerate vibrations of C2H6 are split into two components with oscillations in the symmetry plane and normal to the symmetry plane respectively. Analogues of several of the inactive C2H6 frequencies have also been observed, including a pair at 1122 cm−1 and 1159 cm−1 corresponding to a Raman line of ordinary ethane which has been predicted at about 1170 cm−1 but has not as yet been found.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69718/2/JCPSA6-17-2-182-1.pd

The Cauchy-Schlomilch transformation

The Cauchy-Schl\"omilch transformation states that for a function $f$ and $a, \, b > 0$, the integral of $f(x^{2})$ and $af((ax-bx^{-1})^{2}$ over the interval $[0, \infty)$ are the same. This elementary result is used to evaluate many non-elementary definite integrals, most of which cannot be obtained by symbolic packages. Applications to probability distributions is also given

The 2020+ Project: Using WordPress to Organize, Evaluate, & Discuss the College of the Future

The provost of Providence College asked the Library+Commons to compile scholarly materials on the future of higher education in order for the Academic Affairs Committee to prepare for the college of 2020. The committee needed an easily accessible, annotated bibliography that would allow for commenting and more. The research and education librarians focused on topics like teaching and learning, accountability, and student and faculty characteristics. The research end was challenging, and the librarians continue to explore avenues to find appropriate resources online. They experimented with many platforms before choosing WordPress as the best open-source vehicle to organize and present the multimodal scholarship

Examining Liquidity, Growth Strategy, Capital Structure, and Earnings Growth

Many businesses experience financial deterioration after a growth period. Business leaders of firms with market capitalization value between $50 million and$300 million, known as microcap companies, might have an incomplete understanding of growth drivers. Grounded in the firm growth theory, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between liquidity, growth strategy, capital structure, and earnings growth. The population consisted of the more than 1,400 constituent firms from the 2019 Russell Microcap Index. Archival data from the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database were collected, organized, and analyzed for 119 randomly selected firms. Multiple regression was used to identify a predictive model. The results indicated no statistically significant relationship between liquidity, growth strategy, capital structure, and earnings growth; F (3, 108) = 2.22, p = 0.90, R2 = 0.058. The current study’s findings might encourage business leaders to alter their assumptions about liquidity, growth strategy, and capital structure as determinants of earnings growth. The implications for positive social change include the potential for increased donations to support social programs in the local community and local economic stability

Seven Management Techniques that Move Cow-Calf Producers towards Profitability

Most cow-calf producers don't generate a positive return to equity for the efforts they put forth. The cow-calf sector of the cattle industry is among the most heavily subsidized in agriculture--it is subsidized by "off-the-farm income. This sector has limited sources of "on the ranch revenue: the selling of weaned offspring and the selling of culled animals (bulls, cows and replacement heifers). However, adopting management techniques for better reproductive efficiency, increasing production and reducing production costs can significantly improve a producer's profit margin

Range Extension of the Paleback Darter

Surveys from 1990 through 1992 resulted in a significant range extension of the paleback darter, Etheostoma pallididorsum, which is endemic to the Ouachita Mountains. Prior to 1990, it had only been collected in the upper Caddo River drainage and a tributary to the Ouachita River below Lake Ouachita. The collections that extended this darter\u27s range occurred in tributaries of the Ouachita River above Lake Ouachita

New Distributional Records for Freshwater Mussels in the Ouachita River, Arkansas

Two freshwater mussel species thought to have been extirpated from Arkansas have recently been rediscovered in the Ouachita River in the vicinity of Camden. Prior to this survey, Wheeler (1918) last reported Arkansia wheeleri Ortmann and Walker, the Ouachita rock-pocketbook, and Cumberlandia monodonta (Say), the spectaclecase, from the Ouachita River near Arkadelphia. Quadrula apiculata (Lea), the southern mapleleaf, has been reported from Arkansas on two occasions, but due to taxonomic uncertainty, it has not been recognized in recent compilations of Arkansas freshwater mussels. During this survey, the southern mapleleaf was collected from the Ouachita River which verifies its occurrence within Arkansas. Quadrula fragosa (Conrad), the winged mapleleaf, is reported as a new state record. Arkansia wheeleri and Quadrula fragosa are listed as threatened and endangered species, respectively, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service