ABSTRACT The research topic “the economic impact of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on health care delivery in Ghana” looks in brief the current practice of financing the health service, addressing the underlying inequalities, proving equal opportunities for the people to use current health services in Ghana and to find out the whether the NHIS is the convenient way of financing health service. Among the main objectives of introducing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), i...
ABSTRACT Packaging is central of effective distribution, sales, and use of products and services. Many manufacturing firms have come to the realization that one of their valuable assets is their packaging associated with products. This study was to identify and examine the role which packaging plays as an effective marketing tool in the soap and detergent industry. Packaging activities of the soaps and detergents of Unilever Ghana Limited were used for this assessment. In conducting this rese...
ABSTRACT This research work studies the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on dividend payout of Ghanaian banks listed on Ghana stock exchange. Panel data of a four-year period, covering 2009 -2012 from the annual reports of the selected banks were used for the study with a GLS regression. The study discovered that corporate governance variables like board size, board gender diversity, audit committee size, and board members‟ educational experience all have significant influence on d...
ABSTRACT This study was to find out the level of awareness and indulgence in financial record keeping in the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises by the Ghanaian population. This was to help ascertain whether there was the need for financial records keeping and also to bring to the fore, the benefits that people can derive from the keeping of financial records. In view of this study, probability sampling was adopted in choosing a sample size of 40 to represent the Nkawkaw Township. Various ques...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to find out the role of the accountant in the management of small and medium enterprises. The purpose is to highlight the potential contribution the Accountant could make to the development of Small and Medium Enterprises, which have been recognized as the engine of growth of the Ghanaian economy. Owing to the contingencies beyond the researcher, a simple sample method was adopted to select respondents Questionnaires and unstructured interviews were used to collect i...
ABSTRACT Just the word "audit" makes shivers go up your spine and your heart race faster. However, a church audit is a process that provides reasonable assurance that good stewardship is being used in handling and accounting for the funds and other assets of your organization and since contributions are the life blood of your organization….why wouldn't you want to ensure their proper handling? Audit comes from a Latin word “audire” meaning to hear. Auditing started way back in the 19th ...
ABSTRACT It was identified through a review conducted by the World Bank in 2004 that several weaknesses exist in the Accounting and Auditing practices in various sectors of the country. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and International Standards on Auditing were used as the benchmarks for the assessment. The Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, published in June 2004 was the result of the assessment. This contains recommendations to improve the reporting framew...
ABSTRACT This research investigates E-Business adoption in the banking industry using Barclays Bank Nkawkaw Branch in the Eastern Region of Ghana as the research case. The research aims at identifying the benefits of adopting e-business, the barriers that will prevent firms from enjoying the benefits, and the challenges faced by organisations when adopting e-business, in recent days where due to the rising global economy, electronic business has become a necessary module of business strategy ...
ABSTRACT Corporate governance refers to the mechanisms, processes, and relations by which corporations are controlled and directed. Corporate governance is an element in monitoring the process of financial reporting system. This thesis investigates the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on firm's voluntary information disclosure using four years data from the year 2009 to 2012 with a sample of eight Ghanaian banks listed on the Stock Exchange. Corporate governance mechanisms considered...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the performances of Ghanaian banks in terms of their liquidity, solvency, and profitability by applying financial ratios on the published audited financial statements. The population of the study consisted four of the domestically controlled banks. Data gathered was analyzed using liquidity, leverage, and profitability ratios. Current ratio, quick ratio, and cash ratios were used to assess the liquidity of the banks. Additionally, debt to asset ratio, long te...
ABSTRACT In recent times, there have been recurrent reports on financial irregularities persisted in a lot of Senior High Schools in Ghana by the Auditor General simply because of laxity in controls and disregard of financial rules and regulations. Financial control activities are aimed at achieving desired return on investment. Heads of institutions use financial statements such as budget and other financial tools to exercise financial controls in the form of using policies and procedures es...
ABSTRACT With limited data on the awareness of changes in the use of antimalaria drugs and availability and use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in the context of the Roll back Malaria program, we conducted this descriptive cross sectional study of 262 registered women attending antenatal clinics and 233 mothers of under five children.
Wells Fargo is in the news, but for the wrong reasons. The company has been fined US$185 million and more than 5,000 employees have been fired for secretly creating more than 2 million customer accounts without the customers knowing it. Indications are that the woes of the bank are only just beginning. The scandal brewing is a result of the “Gr-eight” Initiative, a cross-sell initiative by the bank which takes advantage of customer loyalty to increase the average number of products held b...
Abstract This paper investigates the internationalisation strategies of Ghanaian service companies within the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) market. The topic was necessitated by the increasing interest in the study of internationalisation processes of local firms in this era of globalisation, which hitherto was the preserve of multinational enterprises from the developed world. There is very little research on internationalisation processes of firms within the developing ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated customer satisfaction level towards self-service technology within the Ghanaian banking industry. Specifically, the aim of the study was to measure customers’ satisfaction level with Technology Based Self-Service, to establish the selfservice technology quality variable that had the most significant impact on the respondents’ satisfaction levels towards Technology Based Self-Service and finally to establish the challenges customers had with Technology Bas...