Khóa luận tốt nghiệp cử nhân Kinh doanh ngành Kế toán - Khoa Quốc tế. Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, 2012

This study provides a theoretical framework for understanding the concepts of privatization (equitization). In Vietnam, the privatization program officially called “Equitization Program” (co phan hoa) which is the transformation of SOEs into joint-stock companies by transferring both the companies’ structures and the corporate governance of the firms in order to speed competition up, and improve the economic effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of equitization on Vietnamese enterprises financial performance, especially profitability. In order to do whether equitization affects Vietnamese enterprises, the matched-pair (MNR) methodology was employed to compare the pre- and post-equitization profitability performance by collecting and analyzing financial accounting data of a sample of 32 companies. After that, this study divided 32 companies into two sub groups by state ownership in order to examine whether the state ownership is one of the main factors that affects enterprises’ profitability performance following equitization. The results show insignificant increases in Vietnamese SOEs profitability performance under the impact of equitization. Moreover, they also states that the impact of changes in profitability after equitization was affected by the percentage of state ownership. Lastly, this study gives some recommendations and implications for future researches to develop.