Impact of Corporate Governance on Financial Performance of Oil and Gas in Pakistan

Submitted by: Mudassir khan Roll no: 68

Supervisor: Shoaib Aslam A research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bs Commerce Department of commerce Islamia university of Bahawalpur 2011-2015

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Table of contents AbstractIntroduction..Literature review..Hypothesis development..Research methodologyResults and discussions...ConclusionReferences.

Abstract:

Objective:The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of corporate governance, measured by no. of directors, no. of meetings of audit committee and no of committees, on the firm performance measured using ROA, ROE and EPS of oil and gas sector of Pakistan.Research methodology:For this specific study data was collected using annual reports of oil and gas sector listed in KSE for three years i.e. from 2012-2015. The statistical analysis was conducted using a form of SEM tool named as Partial Least Square (PLS) graph.Findings:From the selected variables it was found that corporate governance did not affect firm performance. Research limitations:The limitations of this study are its results are applicable to only one sector and could not be generalized. Only few variables were selected for this study for both corporate governance and firm performance while other variables were ignored. The period was of only three years that was a short period.Key words:Corporate governance, firm performance, PLS, Pakistan.Paper type:Research paper

Introduction

History of petroleum sector in PakistanPakistan economy is growing slowly. Today, the current resources of oil and gas are needed to fulfill the current requirements of the country in Pakistan these recourses are not enough to full the increasing demand of oil and gas in the countrys major part of oil and gas is imported from the foreign country oil and gas reserves are proven 300 million barrels in January Pakistan is considered as petroleum province 1866 at Kundal first well was drilled. In 1886 small scale of oil is produced in Khattan (Baluchistan) in 1915 commercial oil is discovered in Potwar basin (Punjab).the first company for oil and gas is developed in Pakistan oil and gas company limited (OGDCL) in 1960 which works efficiently for the discovery of oil and gas reserves in Pakistan. In 1973 in government and private sector impressive discoveries are made in the field of oil and gas. In 2006 initial recoverable are estimated 52 TCF of which 33 TCF are remain to produce and oil reserves are 844 million bbl and remaining balance is 309 million bbl due to increase in automobiles the demand for oil and gas is increased and consumption of oil is 350 thousand barrels and 80% of oil is imported from the foreign countries. The transport sector is considered as the biggest user of oil it consumes about 48% of total 36%is used by the power generation and remaining 12% is consumed in residential sector. The four major national companies are involved namely oil and Gas Company limited (OGDCL) Pakistan petroleum (PPL) Pakistan state oil limited and Pakistan oil fields limited (POL). Oil & Gas Development Co Ltd 100% Exploration and Production. Pakistan Petroleum Ltd 93.4 Mari Gas Co. Ltd. 40.00%.Pakistan Oilfields Ltd11.00%. National Refinery Ltd. The oil is refined by the companies namely Oil Refining 55.00% Attock Refinery Ltd. 26.00%.Pak-Arab Refinery Co. Ltd. 60.00%.and marketing and distribution by Pakistan State Oil Co. Ltd. Oil Marketing and Distribution 55.22%. Agency theory describes the relationship of principal and management (agent). The reality behind this theory is shareholders which are actually the owners of the firm select a candidate which work as an agent for them. The theory attempts todealwith two specific problems:first, that thegoalsof the principal and agent are not in conflict (agency problem), andsecond, that the principal and agentreconciledifferent tolerances forrisk. The CEO (agent) works for the best interest of their principal (shareholders). The origins of agency theory starts from 1960s&1970s economists worked on the risk sharing among individuals and groups the problem arises when the parties have different attitudes toward the risk. Corporate governance term most generally utilized is "the framework by which organizations are regulated and controlled" (Cadbury Board, 1992). All the more particularly it is the schema by which the different stakeholder investments are adjusted, or, as the IFC states, "the connections among the administration, Directorate, controlling shareholders, minority shareholders and different stakeholders". Corporate Governance manages the courses in which suppliers of money to partnerships guarantee themselves of getting a profit for their speculation. How do the suppliers of account get administrators to give back a percentage of the benefits to them? How would they verify that administrators don't take the capital they supply or put it in awful undertakings? How do suppliers of fund control chiefs? Corporate administration is of gigantic viable imperativeness. Indeed in progressive business sector economies, there is a lot of contradiction on how great or awful the current legislation components. (Andrei Shellfire and Robert W. Vishny18 APR 2012) Corporate legislation components and divulgence transparency measured by the level of Web budgetary reporting (IFR) conduct. We measure corporate influence by shareholder rights, possession structure, board arrangement, and review council attributes. We create a revelation record to measure the degree of each one specimen association's IFR by presentation design, data content, and corporate influence exposures. Results demonstrate that organizations with powerless shareholder rights, a lower rate of square holder possession, a higher rate of autonomous chiefs, a more persevering review board, and a higher rate of review council parts that are viewed as monetary specialists are more prone to take part in IFR. The discoveries propose that corporate influence systems impact an association's Web revelation conduct, apparently because of the data asymmetry in the middle of administration and speculators and the ensuing organization costs. Extra exploratory investigation shows that the relationship between corporate administration and IFR fluctuates with firm size. Our results recommend that new administrative direction in corporate legislation prompts enhanced revelation transparency through IFR. (Kenton, Ya-wen Yangb). Corporate influence is about settling on educated choices and giving business certainty. (Kirkpatrick, G., the Corporate Administration Lessons from the Budgetary Emergency, in Money related Business sector Trends2009, OECD: Paris.) Corporate administration is the procedure and structure used to coordinate and deal with the business and undertakings of the organization towards upgrading business success and corporate responsibility with a definitive destination of acknowledging long haul shareholder esteem, whilst considering the enthusiasm of different stakeholders.( Source: Cover Corporate Influence, Malaysia) Corporate Influence alludes to the way in which the force of a company is practiced in the stewardship of the enterprise's aggregate arrangement of advantages and assets with the target of keeping up and expanding shareholder worth and fulfillment of different stakeholders in the connection of its corporate mission. It is concerned with making a harmony in the middle of financial and social objectives and in the middle of individual and shared objectives while empowering productive utilization of assets, responsibility in the utilization of force and stewardship and the extent that this would be possible to adjust the investments of people, organizations and society. (Source: Private Part Corporate Administration Trust, Kenya). Corporate administration alludes to the set of frameworks, standards and techniques by which an organization is legislated. They give the rules in the matter of how the organization could be steered or controlled such that it can satisfy its objectives and goals in a way that adds to the estimation of the organization and is additionally useful for all stakeholders in the long haul. Stakeholders for this situation would incorporate everybody running from the top managerial staff, administration, shareholders to clients, representatives and society. (January 18, 2009 | Lisa Mary Thomson, ET Authority) Corporate Legislation is "A situated of frameworks, procedures and standards which guarantee that an organization is represented to the greatest advantage of all stake holders." It gives a promise of transparency and recognition of morals in set of principles and release of obligations by all the persons included in the issues of the organization. It concentrates on agreeability of different statutes and lawful necessities alongside essential revelations in order to permit the stakeholders make an educated and suitable assumption about the organization.Corporate Governance is to a great extent focused around office hypothesis suggestions. It is concerned essentially with the partition of obligations between principals stockholders and executors managers. Organization hypothesis guarantees that operators may be enticed to take after move and make choices that are not to the principals' advantage. (Corporate legislation in practice. Scientist, Pylaia, Thessaloniki, 54352, Greece) Corporate influence (CG) systems ensure speculators that they will get sufficient profit for their venture (Shleifer and Vishny, 1986). Corporate influence is ordinarily followed path back to the early 1930s and the distribution of Berle and Implies' "The Advanced Company and Private Property". Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means noted that with the division of possession and control, and the wide scattering of proprietorship, there was viably no check upon the official self-rule of corporate supervisors. In the 1970s these thoughts were further refine.The remaining paper is assembled as Section 2 literature review, Section 3 hypothesis development, section 4 methodology, section 5 results and discussions and finally conclusion.

Literature review:It is comprehended that the route operator for the continuance and the advancement of the organization is mainly its 'Corporate Governance' approaches. Corporate influence alludes to the arrangement of way through which organizations are gone for and controlled. Whether the organization takes after the stakeholder model (where all the stakeholders are meticulous just as fundamental) or takes after the shareholder representation (where more weight is given to shareholders as they are the holders of the organization), the act of corporate influence is progressively getting to be basic. Charreaux and Desbrires (2001) contended this extremely key purpose of contrast between stakeholder worth and shareholder esteem. The increment in monetary and managerial traps has guided the speculators to progressively more search for exactness and expert administration in taking care of the organization's business.The thought of corporate legislation has been in survival for quite a while yet it was formalized in UK in the early 1990s. It all started with Cadbury Committee Report (1992) which was an advisory group formed in UK because of a substantial scourge of monetary traps and corporate disappointments in the 1980s. It was shaped by the London Stock Trade, the Money related Reporting Gathering and the bookkeeping experts. The principle attempt of the council was to banter about money related parts of Corporate Administration. This report was followed by Greenbury Report (1995) which was a study on Directors compensation; Hampel Report (1998) was a committee on Corporate Governance and Turnbull Report (1999) which talked about requirements of directors. Till then the majority of the Asian nations did not have any enactment concerning corporate administration not, one or the other were they wanting to movement towards any here. In 1997, the world watched what came to be known as South East Asian money related emergency when all the ASEAN gatherings running from Thailand to South Korea confronted a monetary emergency which prompted deceleration of financial improvement in the range. Parcel of investigative work has been carried out to place out the reasons that guided to this calamity. It was thought that there was a security between corporate administration and the South-East Asian cataclysm. Did the cataclysm uncover corporate legislation hurts, or did corporate administration damages trigger the onset of the crisis? This was one of the boss inquiries before the scientists. Some examination works avowed that absence of clarity and enacting toward oneself administration were one of the thought processes in the Asian catastrophe while a portion of the articles expressed that the emergency uncovered such issues and associations like the IMF stressed on having great influence applications to deflect it in future. After the crisis, there was an appearance of the Korea SE Act and Business code in 1999, the Code of Corporate Influence in India in 1999 and comparative developments on this front in other Asian nations. In Indias case also, in 1999 SEBI comprised a committee under Kumarmanglam Birla to advocate corporate governance measures to be pursued by Indian companies. SEBI felt a need to make to accommodate the exposures by the organizations in the wake of tricks like MS Shoes and so forth. The panel turned out with a report in 2000 yet it was not executed instantly. The recommendations were thought to be excessively strict in Indian setting. Yet after the Enron avoid in 2002, an alternate council was shaped under Narayan Murthy (2003) to concoct material measures to utilize corporate influence. The suggestions of these two panels took the blueprint of Condition 49 of the posting contract lastly actualized in 2006.Afsharipour (2009) expresses that India's change deliberations have exhibited that while corporate influence standards may unite on a formal level with Old English American corporate administration principles, nearby attributes have a tendency to thwart changes from being more than simply formal. India's powerlessness to viably execute and demand its broad new decides verifies the contention that wide union is restricted, and that the transmission of plans starting with one framework then onto the next is exceedingly mind boggling and troublesome, obliging political, social and institutional revisions that can't be made effortlessly.Oh Seok-Hyun (1999) in the repercussion of the impact of the South East Asian Emergency on Korean economy meets about the lacunae in Korea in the ground of corporate influence. He demonstrates the structural disparities in the Korean economy and particularly in the way chaebolsare race. Kim and Woochan Kim (2008) , discuss the top legislation hones in Korea which were seen for the most part in three sorts of organizations: (1) recently privatized organizations; (2) huge partnerships run by expert association; and (3) manages an account with respectable value ownership in the hands of remote financial specialists. The legislation practices of large portions of these organizations met the worldwide custom. At the flip side, of the band, then again, were a lot of people extensive chaebol-associated or family-run firms that declined to change and evaded administrative adjustment measures. Great legislation serves to develop an exchange name for the organization and it enhances the certification of speculators and stakeholders of the organization. Presence and arrangement of the board (counting the quantity of official and non-official chiefs to be specific autonomous executives and subsidiary/ candidate chiefs), compensation to the board parts, relations with shareholders (counting cooperation in the AGM), responsibility and review, panels built to manage basic systems are few parameters with which influence might be measured. Quantitative estimation of these components is not sufficient, the reason being variables, for example, freedom of the executives or autonomy of the reviewer must be measured from the qualitative features and not quantitative. Zahra and Pearce (1989) propose particular connections among four board properties (arrangement, attributes, structure and procedure) and three basic board parts (administration, system and control). Lacker, et al (2004) checked the connection between a broad set of corporate influence reasons and different measures of authoritative conduct and managerial presentation. Speculators depend vigorously on financial explanations and reports arranged and distributed by the organization for any data about it. One of such reports is the yearly report. Because of neighborhood enactments and prerequisites it has been practical that yearly reports of the vast majority of the organizations have a distinction segment on corporate influence. This section blankets the greater part of the mandatory exposures like board working and its autonomy, shareholders rights and dissimilarity of investment.Singhvi and Desai (1971) additionally discuss the nature of corporate budgetary divulgence. A speculator searches for return in an organization while using. Increment in returns could be broke down by the ascent in offer cost. Taking into account the pondering that financial specialists depend on yearly reports for the budgetary data and other data about the administration squad to know the way the organization capacities which incorporates corporate influence and they are searching for comes back to use or keep their venture made in the organization in place, in this paper the instigator investigates and studies whether any connection exists between corporate legislation and different return parameters considered critical by speculators, for example, Return on Holdings, Return on Value and the development in offer costs . Return on possession measures organization's income in connection to all the stores it has at its leeway. It is accepted better the influence demonstrate; more productive would be the benefit use. Return on Value measures the amount return is constantly created by the organization on the cash contributed by the shareholders. It is a standout amongst the most essential parameters for the speculators in the organization. Maher and Andersson (1999) discussed impact of corporate influence took after by organizations on their budgetary execution.

Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis development

H0: Corporate Governance has no impact on Financial Performance of Oil and Gas sector in PakistanH1: Corporate Governance has significant impact on Financial Performance of Oil and Gas sector in Pakistan

Variables:Return on assets (ROA) (Net profit after tax Preferred Dividend)/Total Assets

Return on equity (ROE)Operating profit/total assets

Earnings per share(EPS)Earnings available to common stock holders/number of shares outstanding

Number of directors (NOD)Total numbers of persons working as the directors of the company

CEO duality (CD)1 if CEO holds two positions otherwise 0

Number of committees (NOC)No. of committees in each organization

Number of audit committee meetings (NOAC)

Audit committees held during specific period

Description of variables:Return on assets (ROA) is calculated by subtracting the preferred stock dividend from net profit after tax and divide the answer with total assets. Return on equity (ROE) is calculated by dividing operating profit by total assets. Earnings per share, (EPS) is calculated by dividing earning available to common stock holders by number of shares outstanding.CEO duality means the CEO of the company holds two positions in the company . He holds CEO position as well as the Director of board. NOC shows the number of committees working in the organization and NOAC means the number of audit committee meetings are held in the organization.

Methodology:

The main objective of this study to examine the impact of CG on financial performance of oil and gas sector in Pakistan. For this purpose we selected all listed oil and gas companies in KSE (Krachi Stcok Exchange). Data is collected from the published audited annual reports for the three year period from 2011 to 2013. A structural equation modeling (SEM) tool called partial least squares (PLS) (Chin, 1997), was used here, the main characteristics of this tool is that it handles small amount on data. According to PLS procedures, the most complex model will involve:(1) The indicators on the most complex formative construct (or)(2) The largest number of antecedent constructs leading to an endogenous construct. Sample size requirements become at least ten times the number of predictors from (1) or (2), whichever is greater (Barclay et al., 1995). In the context of Figure 1, there are no formative constructs and five antecedent constructs. A PLS model is analyzed and interpreted in two stages:(1) An assessment of the reliability and validity of the measurement model.(2) An assessment of the structural model (Barclay et al., 1995; Hulland, 1999)The measurement model was assessed by examining for:1. Individual item reliability;2. Matrix of loadings and cross-loadings;3. Convergent validity/internal consistency; and4. Discriminate validity.Individual item reliability was assessed by examining the loadings of the measures with their respective constructs. A rule of thumb is to accept items with loadings of 0.70 or more, which implies more shared variance between the construct and its measures than error variance (Barclay et al., 1995).

For the purpose of this study, one of the countries in Asia was chosen, namely, Pakistan. Pakistan economy is growing slowly. Today the current resources of oil and gas are needed to fulfill the current requirements of the country .in Pakistan these recourses are not enough to full the increasing demand of oil and gas in the countrys major part of oil and gas is imported from the foreign country oil and gas reserves are proven 300 million barrels in January Pakistan is considered as petroleum province 1866 at kundal first well was drilled. In 1886 small scale of oil is produced in khattan(Baluchistan) in 1915 commercial oil is discovered in potwar basin (Punjab).the first company for oil and gas is developed in Pakistan oil and gas company limited (OGDCL) in 1960.which works efficiently for the discovery of oil and gas reserves in Pakistan. In 1973 in government and private sector impressive discoveries are made in the field of oil and gas. In 2006 initial recoverable are estimated 52 TCF of which 33 TCF are remain to produce and oil reserves are 844 million bbl and remaining balance is 309 million bbl. due to increase in automobiles the demand for oil and gas is increased and consumption of oil is 350 thousand barrels and 80% of oil is imported from the foreign countries .the transport sector is considered as the biggest user of oil it consumes about 48% of total 36%is used by the power generation and remaining 12% is consumed in residential sector. The four major national companies are involved namely oil and Gas Company limited (OGDCL) Pakistan petroleum (PPL) Pakistan state oil limited and Pakistan oil fields limited (POL). All the ten companies chosen are listed companies in Karachi stock exchange. Data was collected from published annual reports and websites of the companies. All the data collected was secondary in nature. The time period of the study was three years from FY 2011 to FY 2013.The share prices of each company was taken for the time period Jan 1 2011 to December 31 2013. All this data was collected from various websites. Return on Assets is calculated as Net Income / Total Assets. It is expressed as percentage. Similarly, Return on Equity is calculated as Net Income / Shareholders Equity. It is also expressed in percentage terms. Parameters specific to Corporate Governance were considered and data was collected about them for all the three companies for the period 2011- 2013. Following were the parameters chosen: Board Structure This parameter talks about total number of directors, number of executive, non-executive and independent directors. This shows the independence of the board in its functioning. CEO duality was also considered as a representative of corporate governance. Committees and details This parameter talks about the number of committees related to corporate governance that each company has and the constitution of these committees. This shows the commitment of companies towards fulfilling corporate governance norms. Meetings This parameter talks about meetings of committees of board. Only audit committees were taken into account. This helps in improved corporate governance practices.The authors tried to perceive if there is any relation between good governance practices of a company and its performance. If a company is open for scrutiny and is willing to share all information with the shareholders, its stock price is expected to do better as compare to a company which does not disclose all information. Similarly, financial performance of the company is also expected to be better if better governance practices are followed by the company. Corporate Governance practices though are only one of the factors affecting the share prices.

Result and discussions:

0.745NODEPS (0.870)0.148

NOCCGFP(-0.271)

ROE0.3520.3030.6540.570(0.160)

ROANOAC 0.0920.972 -0.396(0.963) (-0.383)

Outer Model Weights:

Variables Original estimate mean of subsamples Standard error T-Statistic

Corporate GovernanceNOD 0.8696 0.3323 0.4392 1.9798

NOC 0.5698 0.1742 0.4787

1.1904

NOAD -0.3829 -0.4070 0.5504 0.6957

Financial Performance ROA 0.9627

0.4738 0.3832 2.5121

ROE

0.1598 0.3035 0.3658 0.4369

EPS -0.2705 0.0961 0.5631 0.4804

Outer Model Loadings: Original mean of Standard error t-statistic Variables Estimate subsamples

CorporateGovernance (Composite Reliability =0.507 , AVE =(0.279 )

NOD 0.7448 0.3009 0.47861.5561

NOC0.3519 0.1086 0.5032 0.6994

NOAD -0.3964 -0.4111 0.5695 0.6960

Financial performance(Composite Reliability = 0.662 , AVE = 0.465 )

ROA 0.9719 0.7055 0.3191 3.5508

ROE 0.6536 0.6680 0.2737 2.0484

EPS0.1482 0.4178 0.5283 0.2805

Path Coefficients Table (Original Sample Estimate):CG FP

CG0.0000 0.0000

FP0.3030 0.0000

Path Coefficients Table (Mean of Subsamples):CG FP

CG0.0000 0.0000

FP0.1468 0.0000

Path Coefficients Table (Standard Error):CG FP

CG 0.0000

0.0000

FP 0.4202 0.0000

Path Coefficients Table (T-Statistic) CG FP

CG0.0000 0.0000

FP0.7211 0.0000

Conclusion:Asian countries contribute to comparable cultural qualities but do not share corporate governance applications. According to the results of this study that is based on a specific sector of oil and gas in Pakistan, firm performance did not affected by applications of corporate governance. Analysis was done on the three years data gathered from annual reports and websites of 10 listed firms of oil and gas. A PLS graph used as a statistical tool in this study that is a part of structural modeling techniques that is a helpful tool to handle a small data. The main finding concluded by PLS was that our null hypothesis is accepted as indicated by outcome generated by the test applied on the data i.e. corporate governance rules did not have any impact on firm performance in oil and gas sector of Pakistan. Only two variables of main construct one from dependent and one from independent were significant and they were ROA and NOD. Other variables selected were not significant for this study.

There are some limitations of the study, firstly it is based on a specific sector of Pakistan so cannot be generalized. Secondly the tenure selected was very short consisted only on three years. Thirdly various determinants of both the main constructs were ignored that proved representative of them in the theory. Future directions for this study will be to apply at the same sector in other countries. The same study can be conducted in Pakistan while considering other variables of corporate governance and firm performance. Another future direction can be that tenure can be enhanced to analyze diversity of results.

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