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
This paper analysed the causal relationship between the three largest African stock markets; Nigeria, South-Africa and Egypt. The analysis was conducted for two sample periods using the index of the stock markets. The pre-crisis period between January 2000-April 2008, and the cri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42761
This study aimed to develop a model that can improve the internal audit performance in tax administration. To achieve its objectives, the literature on internal audit performance models were reviewed and analyzed. Internal audit cannot perform efficiently and effectively without...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42596
At present globalized world, export sector plays a vital role in promoting economic growth in each and every economy. Developing countries use SMEs as a strategic tool to develop their export sector. But barriers existing in the export market hamper the maximum contribution of SM...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42459
The purpose of this study is to examine the possible relationship of transactional leadership style on the three tenets of market orientation, thus, competitor orientation, customer orientation and inter-functional coordination. Questionnaires were used to gather data from 200 ow...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/42162
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how financial institutions are operated and it is expected to increasingly take over core functions because of cost savings and operational efficiencies. In recent time, significant improvement has been made in artificial intellige...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2018/41641