The Korea‘s franchise industry has repeatedly grown explosively, but with the side effects from low entry barriers emerging as a social problem recently, it has become even more importantly to understand accounting information that can help companie...
The Korea‘s franchise industry has repeatedly grown explosively, but with the side effects from low entry barriers emerging as a social problem recently, it has become even more importantly to understand accounting information that can help companies make rational decisions. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the relationship between the financial ratio index and the management performance of a company is related to the profitability of sales and the return on equity, a measure of profitability and capital profitability, which is calculated according to the type of franchise company, among the factors affecting the quality of the Korean franchise industry.
The independent variables of this study were selected through the current ratio of the liquidity ratio analysis, the debt ratio of the safety ratio analysis, the revenue growth rate of the growth rate analysis, and the turnover ratio of the activity ratio analysis as variables for the financial ratio index. The business sector of the franchisor and the size of sales were controlled as a control variable and the management performance of the sales net income ratio and the return on equity were analyzed as a dependent variable. The research targets collected five-year financial ratio indicators from 2013 to 2017 of 128 franchises in three industries from listed companies and other entities that are considered transparent to the financial statements in the Electronic Disclosure System of the Financial Supervisory Service, which were used as variables. For statistical analysis, the statistical analysis was performed using a statistical processing program called "SPSS 25.0". Based on these findings, the results of the survey and analysis are as follows.
First, in the case of the restaurant industry, the assumption was made that the financial ratio was related to the profitability of sales and capital gains. Second, in the wholesale and retail industries, the hypothesis of the financial ratio was related to sales profitability and it was rejected. But the theory that the financial ratio was related to capital profitability was adopted. Third, in the service industry, the assumption about the financial ratio and the revenue profitability was related and it was also rejected, but the increase in sales was judged to be a statistically significant variable. The hypothesis about the financial ratio and capital profitability was related to be adopted. Fourth, for small businesses with an average turnover of less than 40 billion, both assumptions have that the financial ratio is related to revenue profitability and that the financial ratio is related to capital profitability was rejected, but the current ratio and revenue profitability were considered to be statistically significant variables. Fifth, for medium-sized companies with average sales of more than 40.1 billion to 80 billion, the hypothesis about the financial ratio is related to revenue profitability and capital profitability was all adopted. Finally, for large enterprises with average sales of more than 80.1 billion, the hypothesis that the financial ratio is related to revenue profitability was rejected, but the hypothesis that the financial ratio is related to capital profitability was adopted.
The analysis suggests that finding ways to increase sales in a practical sense can be a way to improve the profitability of a company, as it means that it is operating liquid assets inefficiently, although reducing reliance on other people's capital, increasing liquidity and increasing the overall asset's efficient use at the same time as lowering the debt-to-equity ratio and increasing liquidity can be a way to improve the profitability of the company. However, this study has limitations on the sample because it only targets listed companies and other companies that can obtain data from the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system. In addition, it is limited in generalizing the analysis results of the relationship between the financial ratio and management performance, given that only the financial performance indicators that did not include the non-financial performance are defined as the management performance of the franchise company and the empirical analysis is conducted.