Abstract: Many projects are initiated but few are completed on budget, on schedule, and on the scope of the initial project concept. Proper planning largely determines successful implementation of any project because without it, the strategic goals remain unattainable. The main objective of this study was to examine the factors that impede the successful implementation of construction projects at WT Business Group in Namibia. This study adopted an interpretivist research philosophy and a qua...
ABSTRACT The primary objective of this research work is to investigate the positive effects of social media on business performance and its influence in the Pensions Fund sector. Using both the quantitative and qualitative means, this study strives to investigate how social media can benefit PFAs in optimizing their overall performance through the appropriate usage of this internet. This research investigates how social media has been beneficial to the case study organization Pensions Allian...
AbstractExtensive research has proven the stock market to be a catalyst for economic development, more so in emerging African economies. Over time, finance has established several methods used to evaluate performance of stock markets. One of these is the return model which describes the relationship between stock returns and accounting earnings, this model has roots in behavioral finance and is the reference point for this study. Other models have proven to be too complex for most small and d...
Abstract This study examines the effects of foreign direct investment on economic development in Nigeria. Using foreign portfolio investment, foreign capital formation and degree of trade openness to proxy foreign direct Investment, while poverty, unemployment and par capital income were used to proxy economic development. Time series non-experimental research design was adopted for this study. The ordinary least square (OLS) method of the classical linear regression model was adopted in this...
ABSTRACT Currently, most organizations continue to grow spending on information system and their budgets continue to rise. Moreover, economic conditions and competition create pressure on the costs of information. Therefore, the study aimed to examine accounting information system on organizational performance in the selected non-governmental organizations in Juba, South Sudan. The specific objectives of the study were first, to examine whether there is a relationship between system quality a...
ABSTRACT In this study worked on factors influence individual investor behavior. In this research analyzed that how Factors influence individual investor’s. This study is conduct through primary questionnaires. In this study data collected from the 73 peoples of different employees, students, business man’s from the country of Pakistan. Factors involving investment decision, business cycle, business uncertainty, reputation of firm, past performance and Government support.In this research ...
Abstract Academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an under-appreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad. * Prepared for the 2015 AFA Presidential Address. While a consultant to t...
ABSTRACT The banking sector is the bedrock of the Nigerian economy, and this industry is known to have contributed in no small measure to the development of the economy. This industry is the enabling hub of national and global payment systems, which facilitates trade transactions within and amongst numerous national, regional and international economic units and by so doing; it enhances commerce, industry and exchange. In performing these various functions in the enabling environment provid...
Abstract The researcher intends to find out the cost and benefit of adopting and implementing IPSAS to financial reporting in the Nigeria public sector. The cost of implementing the standard is actually a big task as it would mostly involve the cost of training personnel, writing of new accounting manuals, installation of adequate information and communication technology software for the programme both at the Federal, State and Local government, among others. On the economic side, Ngama (20...