E-Banking as the wave of the future, provides enormous benefits to consumers in terms of cost of transactions, either through internet, telephone or other electronic delivery channels. E-Banking is now widely practiced in Bangladesh. There are various types of e-banking services like SMS banking, Tele Banking, Push and Pull services, ATM, Fast Track etc. that have been introduced by the commercial banks in Bangladesh. This study attempts to explore various forms and characteristics of e-banking and finds out the merits and demerits of e-banking in selected commercial banks of our country. The major findings of the study show that all the commercial banks selected for the study have been practicing e-banking successfully and Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd. is providing electronic banking services more effectively than other commercial banks selected in this study. Besides, there is a positive impact of e-banking on the socioeconomic development in Bangladesh. There should be diversification of such activities in rural areas of Bangladesh.

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Accounting information is essential to elucidate the financial scenario of any organization. The use of accounting information enhances the decision-making process that has a good role in managerial efficiency. This research study has attempted to know the use of accounting information contained in the annual reports in making a financing decision. Five components of financing decision like selecting the best source of financing,  assessing the cash flows,  preparing the budget and profit planning,  valuation of bond and share as well as financial statement analysis have been considered for the purpose of the study and collected opinions from the selected respondents amounts to one hundred fifty with the use of structured questionnaire and the outcomes of this survey report that the most of the respondents strongly agreed that the accounting information has been used in making a financing decision. The study also reveals that there is a significant relationship among the opinions of the respondents regarding using accounting information in making decisions about the different components of financing decisions.

This study has examined the impact of liquidity decisions on the managerial performance of ten listed conventional private commercial banks. The required data have been collected from the five years' annual reports of the sample banks and analyzed through formulating different null hypotheses. Findings from the testing of null hypotheses with the use of the ANOVA technique reveal that there is no significant variation of different indicators of liquidity decision as well as the managerial performance of the sample banks. Findings are taken from conducting the multiple regression analysis with ordinary least square (OLS) model also indicate that the indicators of liquidity decision namely current ratio is positively and insignificantly associated with net profit ratio as well as return on equity but negatively and insignificantly associated with return on assets as well as return on investment. Moreover, the networking capital ratio as another indicator of liquidity decision is negatively and insignificantly associated with net profit ratio, return on assets as well as return on equity but positively and insignificantly associated with return on investment of the sample banks over the study period.

The fundamental motive of this study is to inspect the extent of disclosure of the banking companies in Bangladesh. To calculate the disclosure score of each sample bank, the un-weighted disclosure index has been used. To reveal the findings of this study, researchers have considered five conventional private commercial banks. A period of five years ranging from 2013 to 2017 has been selected for the study. Data have been collected from secondary sources and different statistical techniques like descriptive statistics as well as regression analysis with the respective models have been employed. The study reveals that the average disclosures scores of the sample banks are at a satisfactory level and the significant variation doesn’t exist in the disclosure scores among the sample banks. Multiple regression analysis has been conducted to know whether the significant relationship is available between the extent of disclosure and the specific characteristics of banks and the evidence confirm that the significant relationship is existing between the extent of disclosure and earnings per share, return on assets as well as net profit but not between the disclosure scores and capital adequacy ratio, debt-equity ratio, current ratio, loan deposit ratio, market capitalization ratio as well as total assets.