Alem, Hagos (PhD)Tilahun, Getachew2019-01-092023-11-042019-01-092023-11-042018-12http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/15582A thesis submitted to the Department of Accounting and Finance in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Accounting and FinanceThe major focus of this study is to answer the question does liquidity determine profitability’s in the case of private commercial banks in Ethiopia. Eight private commercial banks were included in the sample that had at least ten years annual report out of sixteen. Document review was used for collecting data from 2008- 2017 annual reports.In line with this objective, the study adopted quantitative methods of research approaches to test the study hypothesis. The study applied return on assets as the proxy for financial profitability and panel data with its fixed effect estimate to test a series of hypotheses that emergethrough the review of existing literature. The collected data then analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and panel data regression analysis. To confidently forward conclusion, normality, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation tests were conducted on the data. The data then were processed using Eviews 10 statistical package. The results show that: the profitability of sampled banks was determined by their liquidity. Overall variables such as liquid assets to total asset ratio, liquid assets to total deposit ratio, loan to total asset ratio and loan to total deposit ratio found positive significant influence on profitability of private commercial banks in Ethiopia. Finally, private commercial banks most focus on effective liquidity management to maximize their profitability was given as recommendation.en-USCommercial bankLiquidityROAThesis