سکھ دھرم پر اسلامی تعلیمات کے اثرات کا علمی جائزہ

Sikhism is one of the Non Semitic religions founded by Guru Nanak, belonged to a Hindu family and was born in 1469 A.D. This religion is popular in India and Pakistan. Some inhuman customs in Hinduism like caste system, the custom of Satty (burning out of wife with the dead body of husband), monopoly of Brāchman etc. Compelled him to introduce a new religion based on equality and justice. As identified from the life style of the founder of Sikhism and his followers, he is deeply impressed with Islamic teachings. Their habits and customs reflect an Islamic picture. Guru Nanak was a monotheist and was against the worship of idols. He believed in equality and acknowledged the prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), as a role model for human beings. This article is aiming to explain the teachings of Sikhism derived from Islam.

Towards Improvement in Return on Investment ROI by Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Solution in Finance Departments

The ERP solutions contribute in making financial performance of companies in a long term period. The demands of such systems are mostly raised by manufacturing companies in our country. The top management support, implementation team support and end user training & support during implementation of ERP systems directly and indirectly effect returns of investments of the companies. Initially success of ERP solutions is dependent upon these three factors. The management, team and users focus on profitability of the company. In this study the accounts & finance departments of production companies of Faisalabad are selected where ERP systems have been implemented. The sample size constitute on three hundred respondents that are selected from accounts & finance offices of companies. The gross profits, net profits, equity capital, and all other expenditures & revenues are managed in database of ERP finance module. Our results show that ERP finance module positively associated with ROI of company. The top management support, ERP implementation team support and user support & training positively contribute in success of ERP systems and positively affect ROI of company. Firstly the top management is more conscious to increase the profitability of company by focusing on suitable ERP packages. For this purpose performance and support of ERP implementation teams is required but these teams concentrate less on ROI of the companies. The ERP system users efficiently control financial data on databases if sufficient training provide to them. The end users highly concentrate on profitability of the companies.