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An investigation into the normality of the distributions of financial ratios of listed South African industrial companies

A. C. Jordaan, E. V.D.M. Smit, W. D. Hamman
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 25, No 2 | a844 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v25i2.844 | © 2018 A. C. Jordaan, E. V.D.M. Smit, W. D. Hamman | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 16 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 1994

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A. C. Jordaan, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
E. V.D.M. Smit, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
W. D. Hamman, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa

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Abstract

In this article we examine some of the inter-temporal and cross-sectional distributional properties of a selected number of financial ratios of South African industrial companies and we evaluate the effect of a simple procedure of outlier rejection. The normality assumption is rejected consistently in the case of the industry analysis and frequently in the sectoral and yearly analyses.

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