This research is conducting an empirical test on the effect of capital structure, liquidity, asset structure and asset turnover on the financial performance of consumption industry sector companies in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018. The difference with previous research lies in the use of independent variables, the number of samples used and the study period. This research is quantitative research. The analytic method in this research is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of the t-test hypothesis show that the capital structure variable debt to equity ratio (DER), liquidity current ratio (CR), and asset turnover (TATO) have a significant effect on financial performance (return on assets).

Human Development Index (HDI) is an index established by UNDP in 1996 to measure the well-being of society. Indonesian HDI increased during the period of 2008-2012; however, there is high variation among 33 provinces. Its position in the world is still below the average (121 of 187 countries) and ranks 5th among ASEAN countries (UNDP, 2013). Based on this phenomenon this study tries to analyze the determinants of HDI which include GDP, dependency ratio, household consumption for food, government budget for education, and the budget for health. The results indicate that GDP and government budget for health have positive effect on HDI, whereas dependency ratio and household consumption for food have negative effect. However, the budget for education has no effect on HDI. HDI is an important indicator of development; therefore, the government and the society should take efforts to improve the HDI. Economic growth, income distribution, population control, poverty alleviation, as well as improvement in health services and education are needed in order to improve the HDI.

The results of previous research on the relationship between economic growth and poverty have shown inconclusive results. This could be due to the fact that the relationship between these variables is indirect. Therefore, this study tries to introduce employment opportunity as a mediating variable. In addition, the authors also examined the effect of control variables consisting of dependency ratio, education, and infrastructure. The data used in this study are panel data of 6 provinces on Java Island in the period of 2000-2017. The methods used in this study are path analysis and multiple linear regression. The results  show that employment opportunity perfectly mediates the relationship between poverty and economic growth. This study also found that dependency ratio and education had a significant effect on poverty, while infrastructure had a negative, but insignificant effect on poverty. The perfect mediating effect implies that economic growth will reduce poverty only if the economic growth is able to generate employment opportunities. These findings imply the importance of inclusive growth that gives access to the poor to work and business opportunities.

The rapid business competition encourages every company to have a sharp strategy in order to excel in competing with its competitors or at least able to stay afloat to run its business. This study aims to analyze opportunities and business development at Sentra Jenang in Kaliputu Kudus Tourism Village. Respondents of this research are entrepreneurs who are located in Sentra Jenang Tourism Village kaliputu Kudus. The research data obtained by observation and interview is analyzed descriptively by using SWOT strategy matrix to analyze the strategy specified by the respondents. The results of this study indicate that there are some problems faced by some small entrepreneurs that are difficult to develop due to not have a place to market their products, the quality of human resources that are poorly trained to inhibit the production process, the company does not have good financial management so that difficulty for the management of funds, with increasingly fierce competition. The competition that arises more on jenang products from outside Kaliputu and the inclusion of substitution products that other snacks are more modern and follow the development of the era. From the threats that exist then every MSME or jenang industry in the tourist village of Kaliputu Kudus should make innovations of new variants in order to compete in the market and not inferior to other products.

This study aims to examine the factors influence environmental disclosure such as company financial performance, company characteristics, corporate governance mechanism, and environmental management system. Environmental disclosure in this study used the content analysis method by calculating the number of sentences for each disclosure item based on GRI Standards 2016. The population of this study are 1st section companies listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period of 2016 to 2017 which consist of 2.062 companies. Sampling in this study used a purposive sampling technique. There are 47 companies as the research sample and 94 firms-year observations. This study used multiple linear regression analysis to determine the effect of independent variables on environmental disclosure. The result of the statistic analysis is firm size and firm age have a positive significant effect on environmental disclosure. ROE, corporate governance mechanism, and EMS have no significant effect on environmental disclosure, while NPM has a negative significant effect. The conclusion of this study is the environmental disclosure quantity positively influenced by firm age and firm size. The bigger and older companies proved disclose better environmental information by writing more narration or explanation of each environmental disc