ABSTRACT During school opening days, we have witnessed long queues in the halls of our Commercial Banks arising from the last minute rush by the parents/guardians to pay school fees for their beloved children. In addition, the opening and closing hours of these commercial banks has continued to cause unknown havoc to small and medium scale enterprises who cannot access their services outside their normal but limiting operating hours. This has necessitated the proliferation of Agency Banking t...
ABSTRACT The last decade has seen phenomenal investments in real estate. According to a report by Wisconsin School of Business in 2016, Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) with an estimated $2 trillion or more in real estate assets under management globally, reported intention to increase their investment in US. Real estate investment contributed 9% of Kenya's GDP in 2016. In Kisumu City, real estate investors have a total per annum return of 13.3%, with an income yield of...
ABSTRACT Tyre manufacturing industry is critical to Kenya and the East Africa economy as a whole in terms of job creation and its contribution of GDP growth for the East Africa region which is forecast at 5.3% in 2018, up from 4.5% in 2016. Despite this major contribution, it is observed that some firms in the sector are facing a shaky financial situation. For instance, from 2014 to 2018, Yana Trading Limited Kenya faced tight liquidity problems and stiff trade competition. Consequently, the ...
ABSTRACT Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies are quasi financial institutions that mobilize savings, provide loans as well as other products to their members. Liquidity is considered as one of the serious concern and challenge for the modern era SACCOs. A SACCO having good asset quality, strong earnings and sufficient capital may fail if it is not maintaining adequate liquidity. The general objective of the study was to assess the financial factors that influence liquidity of Savings an...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Approval ............................................................................................................................. i TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. ii LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... vi LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................
Table of Contents Approval .................................................................................................................................... ii CHAPTER ONE ...................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction ........................................................
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence that corporate governance has on organizational performance in Stanbic Bank. The study was guided by the following specific objectives; effect of transparency on organizational performance; contribution of accountability on organizational performance; and effect of board composition on organizational performance at SBUL. The study adopted a case study design and a sample size of 97 respondents comprising staff was selected usi...
ABSTRACT According to Economic Survey Report of 2018, by end of June 2018 Kenya Power Company (KPC) was selling electricity to over 6,761,090 million units. In the last two years, the average electric tariffs per unit sold rose to 15.65 up from 14.68 in the previous year. Despite this, electricity supply contribution to GDP has stagnated at 1.8% in the last two years. This points to stagnating performance of KPC, raising a point of concern. This may be explained by competitive strategies Keny...
ABSTRACT The study sought to critically assess the marketing of general insurance products in Ghana. The population of this study comprised of insurance companies in the Sunyani municipality. From the population of the study, a purposive sampling technique was used to select all the seventy-six (76) staff and management members of the selected insurance firms. The study adopted primary and secondary data. The study used both the descriptive and inferential data analysis for the study. The des...
ABSTRACT The potential to increase service performance and delivery through performance contracting have seen accelerated effort in research in this relatively new concept of management in Kenya. Most studies have focused on performance management, performance measurement, commitment, and target meeting. The identified problem in this study was the changing roles of employees, yet the targets to measure their performance were static, measure and evaluation procedures were not standardized fro...
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify the challenges of accounting ethics of some selected organizations in the Sunyani Municipality. A descriptive survey design was used for the study. The study used both primary and secondary in the data collection. The primary data was collected using questionnaires administered for the purpose of the study while the data was collected from respondents within some banking sector in Sunyani Municipality whereas the secondary data was collect...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between Board roles and performance of NWSC in Uganda. The objectives of the study were: to establish the relationship between the monitoring role of the Board and performance of NWSC; to analyse how the service role of the Board influences performance of NWSC; and to examine how the strategic role of the Board influences performance of NWSC. A descriptive survey research design was adopted using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study...
ABSTRACT Cocoa production has been the backbone of Ghana’s economy for more decades. It employs over a million people throughout the country and source of livelihood for many in the country. This study assessed economic and financial implications of decline in cocoa production in the Bono Region (Jaman South Municipality, specifically Drobo). The study adopted a case study research design using cross sectional survey methods. Purposive sampling was used to select 100 respondents for the stu...
Abstract: The study’s main goal was to examine the influence of employee empowerment on employee performance in organizations. The descriptive research design with a focus of questionnaire instruments developed around the main variables for the study. The target population for the study included all the 264 officers of Goaso Divisional of the Ghana Police Service. Out of which a sample of 132 officers invited to participate in the study using the stratified sampling technique. Data was anal...
TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT ............................................................................................................................... iii CHAPTER ONE .......................................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Introduction ............