https://irshadjournals.com/index.php/ijmf <p>The International Journal of Management and Finance provides a platform for analysis in the fields of economics, finance, and management. The scholarly periodical journal provides a multidisciplinary international platform for original research across all the major fields of management and finance. The aim of this journal is to integrate theory and practice and address readership in both industry and academia. The journal provides its readership with the latest research and commentary in all areas associated with an informed, inter-disciplinary, and international approach. It includes research of particularly scientific value on crucial issues of economy, finance, and management. The International Journal of Management and Finance is a peer-reviewed international journal published online.</p> Irshad en-US International Journal of Management and Finance 0000-0000 https://irshadjournals.com/index.php/ijmf/article/view/123 <p>This paper examined the empirical relationship between capital structure and firm performance using balanced panel data of nine primary farmers coffee cooperatives in Guji zone, Oromia regional state during 2020-2023. The profitability measured by return on asset indicated that short term debt to asset has positively significant relationship; total debt to equity has insignificant relationship, total debt to asset &amp; total equity to asset have positively significant relationship with return on asset. The control variables Size &amp; Asset tangibility has insignificant relationship, Asset utilization efficiency (current asset turnover has insignificant relationship, fixed asset turnover has positively significant relationship, total asset turnover has insignificant relationship)&amp; liquidity have insignificant relationship with return on asset. Likewise, the profitability measured by return on equity showed that short term debt to asset has insignificant relationship, total debt to equity has negatively significant relationship.</p> Shashi Kant Mershaye Birhane Chalchisa Amentie Brehanu Borji Copyright (c) 2023 International Journal of Management and Finance 2023-10-15 2023-10-15 1 4 10.59022/ijmf.123