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ABSTRACT Corporate governance is regarded as the key foundation for effective organizational performance and for organizations to be more productive, governed and controlled. The level of collapse of institutions and failure of firms across the world has also emphasized the need to study the ways by which organizations are governed and controlled. Lee (2008) defined corporate governance as a system by which business corporations are directed and controlled. The corporate ...

ABSTRACT The study examines the effect of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management practices in Nigeria listed firms.  Specifically the study examined the joint effect of board size, board independent and audit committee independent, Board size, Board Independence and Audit committee independence on earnings management. This is premised on the increasing failure of firms in Nigeria and which translate into the inability of organizations to meet the expectations of their various stakeholders and ...

Abstract This study is aimed at examining the impact of Corporate Governance on the performance of banks in Nigeria, attention was given to Zenith Bank as case study.The board composition and CEO duality has been identified as one of the problems that have significant effect on the bank’s performance. Corporate governance mechanisms used to achieve the objectives, formulate the hypothesis and the research questions include Board Size, Chief Executive Officer Duality ...

ABSTRACT This study examines some components of Corporate Governance with huge potentials for narrowing expectation gap. The study adopted a descriptive and survey research design and data was obtained through interview and questionnaire administered to a purposive sample size of 130 respondents, who are knowledgeable in accounting, auditing, finance and management. Using regression analysis, the study finds whistle blowing and tenure limitation to have significant negative relationship with Audit Expectation Gap; Adequate ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study Effectiveness of financial reporting is one area in accounting that is recognized as the power house of financial dealings and management (Howard, 2012). Financial report constitutes the climax of all the planning and operation in the corporate governance. The audit reputation may then depend upon the contents of its report. In essence this implies that effectiveness of financial report is justified only ...

ABSTRACT The project examines the link between corporate governance and auditors report in Nigeria. The study main objective is for an appointed auditor to express a professional opinion on the financial position of an enterprise as contained in the financial statement prepared by the management so that any person reading or using them can have faith in them. The primary source of data collection was used in gathering data from ...

ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between share price and corporate governance of selected Nigeria quoted companies. The broad objective of the study is to find out if the size of the board is positively related to share price and also to ascertain if the independence of the board is related to share price. This study used a sample of 30 quoted companies in Nigeria between 2013 and 2015. In ...

Abstract The research work tends to cover the relationship between corporate governance and external auditor’s report as it is important to non-financial institution. Improper accounting records, frauds and other internal factors are some of the factors that lead to lack of returns on investment in an organization. Hence, the broad objective of the study is to ascertain the relationship between auditing reporting and corporate governance and also to find out ...

ABSTRACT This project examines the role of auditors report in corporate governance. The problems, challenges, prospects of auditing and corporate governance looked. As a worldwide phenomenon, they have continued to generate divergent views among scholars. The data used comprises of primary data, which consist of self-administered questionnaires and oral interview of some of the respondents. To achieve the purpose of the study, a survey of ten selected companies quoted in ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Corporate governance involves a system by which governing institutions and all other organizations relate to their communities and stakeholders to improve their quality of life (Ato, 2002). In this regard, corporate governance is not only concerned with corporate efficiency, it relates to a much wider range of company strategies and lifecycle development (Mayer, 2007). It is also concerned with the ways parties ...

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY From time immemorial, there wasn’t any need for corporate governance due to the fact that business institutions were owned and managed by their sole owners. In recent times, the owners have employed professionals to manage and direct the affairs of their institutions in anticipation of giving an account of their stewardship. The issue of corporate governance has recently been given a great deal of attention ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The concept of corporate governance is one of the issues that have attracted the attention of researchers and organizations around the world. This is due to the fact that governance mechanisms involve a set of the relationship among organization’s management, its board, its shareholders and other stakeholders that provide structure in which organizational goals are set, and organizational performance are monitored. Therefore, ...

ABSTRACT The study was conducted to examine the effect of corporate governance in the Nigerian Banking sector. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the effect of corporate governance on bank performance and to ascertain the relationship between corporate governance, loans and bad debts in banks while making recommendations on how to boost corporate governance and reduce the rate of bad debt and insolvency in the Nigerian banking ...

ABSTRACT This study was designed to empirically investigate the effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of pension fund administrators in Nigeria within the period of 2004 – 2014. The study employed the use of secondary data sourced from the websites and audited financial statements of pension fund administrators in Nigeria. For the purpose of the study, board size and board composition were used as the proxy for corporate ...

TABLE OF CONTENT Title page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgment Abstract Table of content  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1        Background of the study 1.2        Statement of problem 1.3        Objective of the study 1.4        Research Hypotheses 1.5        Significance of the study 1.6        Scope and limitation of the study 1.7       Definition of terms 1.8       Organization of the study CHAPETR TWO LITERATURE REVIEW CHAPETR THREE 3.0        Research methodology 3.1        sources of data collection 3.3        Population ...

Abstract Budgeting and budgeting Control occupies an important place among techniques used in planning and control functions of an organization. In budgeting, the focus is not only to prepare the budget but more importantly to have a follow-up operation for budgeting and act according to known data. The main objective of this study is to assess the effects of budgetary control on the financial performance of selected manufacturing companies in ...

TABLE OF CONTENT Title page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgment Abstract Table of content CHAPETR ONE  INTRODUCTION  1.1        Background of the study 1.2        Statement of problem 1.3        Objective of the study 1.4        Research Hypotheses 1.5        Significance of the study 1.6        Scope and limitation of the study 1.7       Definition of terms 1.8       Organization of the study CHAPETR TWO LITERATURE REVIEW CHAPETR THREE 3.0        Research methodology 3.1    sources of data collection 3.3        Population of the study 3.4        Sampling and sampling distribution 3.5        Validation ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study The The concept of corporate governance has attracted a good deal of public interest in recent years, because of its apparent importance on the economic health of corporations and society in general. Basically, corporate governance in the banking sector requires judicious and prudent management of resources and the preservation of resources (assets) of the corporate firm; ensuring ethical and professional standards and the ...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to measure the relationship between corporate governance and the performance of firms in Nigeria. To achieve this objective, we use Return on equity, Net profit margin, Sales growth, Dividend yield, and Stock prices/values as the key variables that defined the performance of the firm. On the other hand, for the measure of corporate governance, we use Board Independence, Board size, audit independence, ownership, ...

Abstract This study examined the corporate governance and its impact on the management of Forte Oil Nigeria Plc Kaduna. Research questions guided the study. A survey method was used for this study. The population consisted of all the management staff of commercial banks in Kaduna with a total population of two hundred (200) persons. 133 person were selected for the study. Mean scores and frequencies were used to analyze the ...