In this study, we examine the impact of Big4 auditors on the real earnings manipulation of listed companies in Nigeria. The paper uses the sample of 80 non-financial companies listed on the floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period between 2012-2016. The data was extracted...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/44584
A large number of Personal owned Businesses (POB's) in Delta State that have either closed shop or stopped functioning properly at the demise of the owner/manager as a result of what appears to be lack of proper succession planning necessitated this study. The broad objective of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/40992
The value of diversity at the workplace is becoming a key business consideration for most organizations. Close and continuous attention to the issues of workforce diversity is important because it can be one of the major sources of competitive advantage. However, there were limit...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43760
The study examines the impact of fiscal policy instruments on the Nigerian economic growth using time series annual data from 1981-2016. Data on fiscal policy instruments was proxied with government recurrent expenditure, government capital expenditure, public domestic debt, and...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43058
The study examines the effect of macroeconomic forces on balance of payment. Ex post-facto research was adopted and the sample of the study covers the period of thirty-one years spanning from 1986 to 2016. A secondary source of data was used and this was obtained from Central Ban...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43057
Aim: The study examined the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on tax aggressiveness among selected manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Study Design: Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Nigeria and th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/38594
This study was conducted to examine the nature of relationship existing between environmental accounting reporting and Oil companies’ performance in Nigeria. Eleven (11) quoted oil companies were randomly selected from the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The secondary data used were fro...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43106
In this study, Attitudes of undergraduates towards teachers and the teaching profession was examined to properly ascertain how the attitudes of undergraduate towards their teacher affect their chances of choosing teaching as their future profession. Two sources of the data were u...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43713
This study aims at examining the comparative performance of Islamic and conventional banks over the sample period from 2005 to 2016. The sample banks consist of a list of Islamic and conventional banks from twenty countries from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Gulf region, and Eur...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43955
Aims: The primary objective of the study is to investigate the effects of tribal diversity in the relationship between organisational politics and performance in the hospitality industry in Ghana. Methodology: To achieve this a sample of 122 employees from 30 hotels in Ghana were...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43383
This study aims at analysing the relationship between interest rates and gearing ratios of banks listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The research design was a correlational analysis using time series data. The population for this study consists of all the (10) banks listed on the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/43390
This study investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) and financial performance of listed conglomerates firms in Nigeria, with the use of secondary data. The secondary data was sourced from sampled firms’ annual account and reports bet...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42804
Entrepreneurship is not pursued as an attractive career choice by the Sri Lankans as they more attracted to jobs. Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of younger generation of the country is more crucial in this condition where they are the essence of the active citizen pool of the cou...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42762
The paper investigates the effect of the university connections of independent directors on firm performance by choosing the panel data consisting of 2994 firm-year observations in Chinese listed manufacturing companies during 2008-2013 as research sample. Empirical analysis by a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42219
The study assesses the response of Nigerian fiscal policy to a number of external shocks, namely; oil price, foreign aid and exchange rate shocks using Vector Autoregressive (VAR) estimation approach. The results show that fiscal policy in Nigeria is responsive to external shocks...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42419