Investigating the Factors Affecting the Financial Success of Agricultural Enterprises (Case Study of Agricultural Cooperatives in selected cities)

Abstract

Now, the role of cooperatives in socio-economic development, equipping capital and thoughts, and then changing them to effective powers in the process of socio-economic development, distributing the benefits of this process in a more equitable manner among people specially the poor and low-income masses, is obvious for all of us. For determining the level of cooperative success to achieve their goals, it is necessary to investigate their activities. The study of financial situation of cooperative is one of the important case in the study of cooperative conditions. So, this research will investigate the effective factors on financial success of agricultural cooperatives in Sari, Babol, and Amol cities during 1395 and 1396. Requirement data was collected by filling in questionnaire, then analyzed by SPSS and Eviews software. The results showed the level of staff's education, the level of manager's education and manager's experience have positive and significant effect on stockholder's profit. In other words, if manager experience and the number of educated staff increase, stockholders profit will increase 5.73 and 1.25 Million Tomans, respectively. Also the result showed if manager education increase for one year, stockholders profit will increase 42.14 million Toman. The finding also showed active agricultural cooperatives in Sari will pay more profit to their stockholders than cooperatives in Babol and Amol cities.