After Effects and Financial Management of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Small Businesses: A Quantitative Study of Micro-Retailers in Lahore, Pakistan

Umair Shahzad; Ali Rizwan Hashmi

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After Effects and Financial Management of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Small Businesses: A Quantitative Study of Micro-Retailers in Lahore, Pakistan

Umair Shahzad, Ali Rizwan Hashmi

Published in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Business (Volume 9, Issue 1)

Received: 3 April 2023 Accepted: 20 April 2023 Published: 10 May 2023

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The global pandemic COVID-19 has influenced the entire world and different routines of life. This research is based on the problem indicating has COVID-19 lockdown effected the financial management of small businesses or not. This quantitative research analyzes the significance of COVID-19 lockdowns in affecting small businesses for micro-retailers in Lahore, Pakistan. Theory of financial crisis and Theory Y are used to test the hypotheses. Here dependent variables to check the results of this research are reserve and ready cash, sales and mobile/ecommerce because it has diversity of options to view the needs of the micro-retailers and strong facts for financial management. Data was collected from the micro-retailers belonging to three different fields of small businesses of Lahore Pakistan. The questionnaire responses are taken by the relevant micro-retailers. Descriptive analysis, independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance are used to test the data. The findings show that COVID-19 lockdowns have adversely effected cloth and mobile/electronics micro-retailers and less the food/grocery retailers up to the extent that reserve and ready cash is becoming short, sales average has declined and micro-retailers do not have much awareness of mobile/ecommerce ways to keep up with the financial management for a living.

Published in	American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Business (Volume 9, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajtab.20230901.11
Page(s)	1-16
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Theory of Financial Crisis, Theory Y, Micro-Retailers, Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Financial Management, COVID-19 After Effects and Businesses

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Umair Shahzad

Department of Mass Communication, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan
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Department of Mass Communication, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan

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