NON- FINANCIAL REPORTING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIFTY AND NON-NIFTY COMPANIES

Authors

  • Prakhar Wadhwa Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

Keywords:

Non-financial reporting, Non-financial information and Non-financial accounting, National Stock Exchange, Nifty companies

Abstract

This paper tries to compare the performce of Nifty and Non-Nifty companies and how reporting of non-finnacial information affects the perforamance of Nifty and Non-Nifty companies. For comparative analysis, we have taken few financial and non-financial factors which can explain the performance of a firm. The results shows us that Nifty companies have high market capitalization as compared to non-Nifty companies. But, reporting of non-financial information havepositive impact on the market performance of Nifty firms as compared to non-Nifty companies.

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Published

15-05-2017

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Prakhar Wadhwa. (2017). NON- FINANCIAL REPORTING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIFTY AND NON-NIFTY COMPANIES. International Education and Research Journal (IERJ), 3(5). Retrieved from https://ierj.in/journal/index.php/ierj/article/view/949

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Vol. 3 No. 5 (2017): MAY ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH JOURNAL

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