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Impact of Selling, General and Administrative Expenses on Financial Sustainability of IT Companies Listed in S&P 500

The Journal of Distribution Science / The Journal of Distribution Science, (P)1738-3110; (E)2093-7717
2016, v.14 no.4, pp.13-20
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15722/jds.14.4.201604.13
Seetharaman, Seetharaman
Pitta, Santhikumar
Moorthy, Krishna
Saravanan, Saravanan
Seetharaman,, S. , Pitta,, S. , Moorthy,, K. , & Saravanan,, S. (2016). Impact of Selling, General and Administrative Expenses on Financial Sustainability of IT Companies Listed in S&P 500. The Journal of Distribution Science, 14(4), 13-20, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15722/jds.14.4.201604.13
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Purpose - This paper attempts to determine the importance of financial sustainability and the impact of Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A) on the financial sustainability of the IT industry. Research design, data, and methodology - Primarily the impact of SG&A expenditure on the sales revenue, assets, gross margins and profit is ascertained. After that the impact of SG&A expenditure, sales revenue, assets, gross margins and profit on the financial sustainability i.e., return on assets is worked out. Finally the impacts of financial sustainability i.e., return on assets on total enterprise value and market valuation multiples are found out. Results - The empirical result shows that SG&A expenditure most strongly impacted sales revenue, assets, gross margins and profit positively. Financial sustainability impacted in mixed manner with SG&A expenditure, sales revenue, assets, gross margins and profit. Assets and gross margins have weak positive impact on financial sustainability. Sales revenue has no impact on financial sustainability. Finally financial sustainability had moderate positive impact on total enterprise value and had no impact on market valuation multiples. Conclusions - SG&A expense has moderate positive impact on the financial sustainability and magnitude is very low.

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Information Technology, SG&A Expenses, Financial Sustainability, Return on Asset, Gross Margin, Revenue, Profit, Total Enterprise Value, Market Multiples

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