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TAX ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS (A Case Study of The Federal Board of Inland Revenue, Abuja)

Tax administration in Nigeria lacks coherent policy and this made the economy to remain in a deep structure. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the critical tax administration challenges before Nigeria and pinpoint measures required by authorities and practitioners to meet them in order to achieve these, two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. 

Impact of Budgetary Control on Organisational Performance

The study is the impact of budgetary control on organisational performance Background to the Study The resources of an organization should be managed effectively and efficiently to achieve its purpose. This implies that the organization should be able to achieve its objectives by minimizing cost. Thus managing implies co-ordination and control of the efforts of the organization for achieving organizational objectives. The process of managing is facilitated when management charts its ...

Critically Discuss the Theoretical Differences Between the Traditional and Contemporary Psychology of Leadership

This essay critically analyses the theoretical foundations, the similarities, and differences between the traditional and the contemporary approach to leadership and subsequently focuses on the personality-trait, the situational and the contingency leadership frameworks.

How the understanding the psychology of behavior has been used and could be used, to help businesses advertise their products

This essay discusses how (the psychology of behavior) operant and classical conditioning, cognitive dissonance, heuristic-systematic processing, and gestalt principles of perception, could help and has help businesses influence behavior via ads. And it highlight the role of the human brain.

Impact of Financial Constraints on Firms' Investment Decision in Nigeria

The study is focused in examining financial constraint and investment decision of firms in Nigeria. The study seeks to reveal various financial constraints that are having effect on firms’ investment decision. The data have been taken from the balance sheet of nine (9) manufacturing firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the time period 2008 to 2012. Multiple regression analysis has been done to examine the relationship among firm’s size, dividend payout ratio, firm’s age, capi...

The Role of Human Resource Management Function in Promoting Organizational Learning in the Nigerian Context

This study investigates the role of the human resource management function in promoting individual and shared learning and knowledge creation capabilities in the Nigerian context. This qualitative study investigates the common theme of human resource management practices in extant academic expert literature revolving around organizational learning capabilities. Based on a survey, addressed to chartered human resource practitioners in Nigeria, the result indicates that strategic human resource...

Corruption - Implications to Sustainable Economic Growth and Consequences to Poverty Alleviation ... Nigeria

Abstract Nigeria: Corruption has been identified as one of the most aggrieving concepts hampering human and economic progress in developing countries; a finding particularly relevant to the Nigerian case. Corruption exacerbates economic growth, reduces economic efficiency and development despite the availability of enormous human and natural resources in the country of investigation. The cardinal thrust of the present paper is to inquire about corruption in the Nigerian context under apprecia...

Marc Moser 276 PAGES (51893 WORDS) Sociology Thesis
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP

Abstract:  The relation between economic growth and unemployment is being studied throughout a diverse set of contributions over the last years. Taking into account the current economic situation, this topic is regaining attention amongst economists essentially due to the importance of this relationship as a way to overcome the high unemployment rate that has been characterizing the Nigerian labour market. This paper examined the relationship between unemployment rate and economic growth ...

THE ROLE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN FINANCING SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)

ABSTRACT The topic of dissertation is The Role Of Commercial Banks In Financial Small Scale Industries In Nigeria. A case study of Union Bank of Nigeria PLC. The major objective of the study is to ascertain the extent to which Union Bank of Nigeria PLC has helped to financial small scale industries in Nigeria. The instrument of data collection is questionnaires and research questions which formed the source of primary data, while materials from various published articles, textbooks, Journals ...

DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND PASTRIES IN NIGERIA

The research study examines digital marketing strategies and the performance of non-alcoholic beverages and pastries industry in Nigeria using UAC Foods Limited. Indeed, several literatures were reviewed based on the concept and strategies, theories and empirical review on digital marketing strategies and organizational performance. Thus, descriptive survey research design was adopted and as such three hundred (300) questionnaires were administered to the respondents at UAC Foods Limited w...

EFFECT OF MONETARY POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA: 1990 - 2011

This study examined the effect of Monetary Policy on the economic growth of Nigeria from 1990-2011, using Interest rate, Cash reserve ratio, Liquidity ratio, Exchange rate and Monetary policy rate as proxy for Monetary policy and RGDP as proxy for Economic growth. The study used the secondary data from CBN Statistical Bulletin. Ordinary Least Square with SoftwarePackage for Social Science (SPSS) was used as data analyses method. It was revealed from the findings of the study that interest rat...

Seminar on Effective cost Mgt by Emea Frank Ekwe

Abstract The article x-rayed the Effectiveness of cost Management as a Panacea for efficient control of internal strives in Nigeria. We adopted a peace and conflict resolution approach to this article. We discovered that Cost management is a method of reducing operating or production expenses in order to provide less expensive products or service to consumers. In other words, it’s the process management uses to analyze its production and streamline its operations to keep costs low and m...

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PRIVATIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA FROM (2001-2010)

TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE  PAGE i CERTIFICATION PAGE ii DEDICATION iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENTS vi LIST OF TABLES  CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL  INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY1 1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEM3 1.3RESEARCH QUESTIONS3 1.4RESEARCH OBJECTIVES4 1.5RESEARCH HYPOTHESES 5 1.6SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY5 1.7SCOPE OF THE STUDY 6 1.8LIMITATION OF THE STUDY6 1.9SCHEME OF CHAPTERS7 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.1INTRODUCTION8 2.2DEFINITION OF TERMS8 2.2...

The role of management accountant in the management of small and medium enterprise (a case study of ado poly. Ventures)

This study seeks to find out the role of the accountant in the management of  small ad medium enterprises. The purpose is to highlight the potential contributions the accountant recognised as the engine of growth of the ghanaian economy

IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (1985-2014)

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of government expenditure on economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1985-2014.The study employed Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to examine the effect that government expenditure has on economic growth in Nigeria and also co-integration test was used to test for long-run relationship between government expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria. The result of the test for this study revealed that government capital and recurrent expenditure cont...


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