A study on the effects of accounting disclosures on firm performance of publicly listed companies in the Philippine Stock Exchange under the food, beverage & tobacco subsector from 2010-2014

In this study, the researchers aim to determine if the most useful accounting disclosures for company forecasts as identified by Steele and Trombley(2012) and Titman et al., (2011) have a significant effect on firm performance based on the measurement model formulated by Santos and Brito (2012) on the publicly listed food, beverage and tobacco companies in the Philippines. Twenty-one (21) companies in the Philippine Stock Exchange under the food, beverage and tobacco subsector, which are assumed to be the representative of the whole population, were used in this study. Data analysis included the use of multiple regression analysis, normality testing, heteroscedasticity, and autocorrelation in determining whether a significant relationship between variables in consideration of the five-year period. The researchers were able to determine that accounting disclosures, specifically, prior firm sales growth, day sales outstanding, capital expenditures, change in margin, current ratio, acid test ratio, accounts receivable turnover ratio, inventory turnover ratio, debt ratio, times interest earned, fixed asset turnover, age and size will significantly affect the financial and strategic performance of the company. However, results showed that disparate accounting disclosures significantly affected the firm performance for each dependent variable. With that, the researchers recommend that future researchers may opt to consider a longer time period of study, preferably 10 years or more, so that prior financial trends could provide more accurate forecasts for the companies. Moreover, a similar study may be conducted for other sectors or subsectors of publicly listed companies in order to determine if the study would also provide a fairly accurate data

Treatment of stress fracture of the olecranon in throwing athletes with internal fixation through a small incision

<p>Abstract</p> <p>The present study is a report of retrospective case series of stress fracture of the olecranon. Six patients presented posterior elbow pain in throwing in baseball and softball, but fracture was not diagnosed in radiographs. We detected stress fracture of the olecranon using computed tomographic (CT) scan and treated the patient with internal fixation with a headless cannulated double threaded screw through a small skin incision. All patients returned to competitive level without elbow complaints after the operation.</p> <p>When throwing athletes present with unusual posterior elbow pain and no significant findings on radiographs, a CT scan examination should be performed. We recommend surgical treatment of internal fixation with a screw through a small skin incision, as a good option for stress fracture of the olecranon in order to allow early return to sports activity in competitive athletes.</p