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This research was conducted to examine the effect of profitability, company size and company growth on firm value through the capital structure of food and beverage companies listed on the IDX for the 2014-2018 period. The analysis was carried out using secondary data, namely financial reports on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The technique used in sampling is purposive sampling. The number of samples obtained were 11 food and beverage companies. The analysis technique uses path analysis. The results of the analysis show that profitability has a positive (significant) effect on capital structure, firm size and firm growth has no effect on capital structure, profitability has a positive (significant) effect on firm value. Firm size and company growth have no effect on firm value, capital structure has a negative (significant) effect on firm value. This research shows that investors and traders only pay attention to the profitability of the company to assess the company, have not considered the size of the company and the growth of the company and the capital structure.

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This study aimed at investigating the problems of Arabic teachers’ professional competence in improving the quality of the graduates at MA Al-Musdariyah 2 Cimahi. Phenomenology, scientific approach, and a formal juridical approach were used as the method in this study. This study belonged to a case study. The result of this study showed that the main problems related to the teacher’s professional competence in teaching and learning Arabic were an unsuitable academic qualification, the lack of teachers’ welfare, teachers’ discipline and awareness, tutoring, and training. The implication of this study indicated that teachers’ professional competence to improve the quality of the graduates had been implemented. However, the implementation of teachers’ professional competence was considered less than optimal. It influenced the quality of the graduates. In other words, the objectives of teaching and learning activities were not achieved. Therefore, in this case, teachers as the most important factor in teaching and learning processes should improve their competences as a manifestation to improve the quality of the graduates.

The purpose of this study is To describe the variables Work Environment, Motivation, Job Stress and Employee Performance. The population in this study amounted to 56 people. To collect the data the researcher used questionnaires. For descriptive and regresion analysis SPSS version 20 were applied. Based on the result of research indicate that 1). Work environment does not significantly affect employee performance, because the work environment culture is well established 2). Motivation of work affect the performance of employees, the better the motivation the better the performance of employees, 3). Job stress affects the performance of employees, the more stress increases the more increases the performance of employees, 4). Motivation is a variable that has a dominant influence on employee performance, so the motivation must be considered well by the leader.