Service industries, such as banking and finance retailing, are different in many ways to industries that deal with a tangible product. Therefore, service-marketing gurus emphasize process, people, and physical elements to enable service providers to market themselves effectively....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35538
The study examined the effects of accounting ethics on audit quality in Nigeria. Although no method yet has been found to guarantee the optimum quality level for the financial information users, and implicitly the quality of audit services, efforts concerning this aspect has been...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34826
The Nigerian agricultural sector was a resilient sustainer of the economy and the Nigerian people in terms of food supply, employment and national income generation. This was possible as a result of focused regional based policy and commodity comparative and absolute advantage. H...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35973
This study examined the critical factors that influence the selection and assessment of suppliers in public institutions in Ghana. The study employed both descriptive and survey research design. The study was conducted between April, 2016 and March, 2017. Public institutions in t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35580
This study investigated the role of Microfinance Banks on employment generation in Karu Local Government Area (L.G.A) of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The aim is to ascertain the extent to which microfinance banks have discharged their responsibilities of transforming the rural areas...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35325
The paper assesses whether energy consumption leads to economic growth in Bangladesh applying the ARDL (autoregressive distributed lag) bounds testing approach of cointegration. We use time series data for the period from 1979 to 2014. Results report that energy use and economic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34156
This paper argues that for economies that have structural rigidities and irregularities, the received knowledge of equilibrium in the demand and supply of money should be interrogated. The paper proposes a third variable – equilibrium bias – to test its significance. Using quarte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35169
Malaysia’s external debt has been on an increase, which has become a national concern. Data used for this study was from 1970 to 2013. The VECM results showed that external debt had no transitory but a permanent relationship with the determinant variables. Exchange rate, recurren...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35031
The study aimed at determining the effect of adopted competitive strategy on the outcomes of SMEs in Nigeria. The sample size of the study comprised of 1231 owner-managers from selected Small and Medium scale Enterprises within four sectors in Nigeria. The instrument used was str...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34233
This research work focuses on the role played by predictive ratios in effort to check incidence of creative accounting in the financial reporting system of Dangote Cement Nigeria Plc. It examines whether the impact of joint application of the Beneish 8-Predictive Ratios and the A...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35679