TY - JOUR AU - Koerniadi, Hardjo PY - 2013/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Impact of Corporate Governance on Financial Practices of New Zealand Companies JF - Applied Finance Letters JA - AFL VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Articles submitted to regular issue DO - 10.24135/afl.v2i2.14 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/applied-finance-letters/article/view/14 SP - 14-19 AB - This study examines the effects of firm level corporate governance on financing policiesof New Zealand firms. Using a unique self-constructed corporate governance index andemploying the methodology of Fama and French (1999) of financing of firms, we can reportthat firms with weak corporate governance generally issue more debt and have significantlyhigher cost of capital than do firms with strong governance. It is further observed thatcorporate governance does not have significant impact on dividend policy in New Zealand. ER -