Working on entrepreneurship bears special significance for country like Bangladesh where density of population is very high. It is really a great challenge for the country to accommodate such a large population. Developing the determinants on entrepreneurial intention can take the country a step ahead for the improvement of entrepreneurial culture. Nurturing such culture will flourish entrepreneurship development which can create scope for accommodating substantial number of people. In this backdrop, this study has tested a causal model in context of business students of Bangladesh to identify what determines their intentions to be an entrepreneur. For this purpose data were collected from the business students studying at Bachelor and Master Level in public and private universities. From the previous literature, variables like risk taking, locus of control, need for achievement, autonomy, challenges, security of job, environment for staring business and entrepreneurial education offered by Universities have been tested using multiple regression model. The model results show tendency of taking risk, need for achievement, education and environment for starting business, job security are statistically significant in determining the intention of students where except job security, variables are found positively related.

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Purpose: The aim of the study is to find out relationship between liquidity risk and bank performance. This study has been conducted based on secondary data collected from the annual reports of selected banks. Design: This is a causal study where dependent variable is bank performance (BP) which is the combination of two factors namely return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Independent variables are current ratio (CR), loan to deposit ratio (LDR) and liquid asset to total asset ratio (LATAR). The study has been conducted on secondary data that has been collected from the annual reports of the banks. Multiple regression analysis has been applied to actualize research objectives. Findings: The study shows that there is no significant relationship between current ratio and bank performance, on the other hand effect of loan to deposit ratio and liquid asset to total asset ratio have statistically significant relations with bank performance. The study identifies negative relationship between bank performance and loan to deposit ratio; bank performance and liquid asset to total asset ratio.

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