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The Problems of Effective Utilization of Revenue available to Local Governments: Aninri Local Government Area as a Case Study

BACK GROUND OF THE STUDYNigeria as a sovereign nation operates a federal system of government i.e the federal government, state government and the local government councils. Onwo (1992) Observed that each level of the three tiers of government derive its powers not from the magnanimity of the central government but from the constitution; each level of government has defined responsibilities assigned to it by the constitution. The implication of this is that the three segments of governments a...

Staff Recruitment And Selection As A Means Of Enhancing Productivity In The Local Government ( A Case Study Of Ihiala South Local Government Area Of Anambra State)

ABSTRACTEffective recruitment and selection policy is a necessary tool employed by organizations to acquire the needed manpower requirements in an organization. The purpose of this research study is therefore to examine the relevance of recruitment and selection process to achieve the goals of an organization, taking Ihiala south local government area of Anambra State, as case study. The research design is both case study and survey. The population of the study is 80, out of which a sample si...

The Effect Of Performance Evaluation And Discipline Performance (A Case Study In Nigeria Institute For Oil Palm Research Nifor)

ABSTRACTIt is observed that performance evaluation is fast losing its beauty among workers at different level or categories. The reason for this is not farfetched. Some appraisal policies are defective in design while some people are defective in design while some people appraise with wrong intension. In short, information provided on appraisal forms are unreliable making the essence of appraisal forms are unreliable making the essence of appraisal next to nothing. It is in view above that in...

Effect Of Motivation On Worker Productivity: A Case Study Of Uniben Enterprise Water, Benin City

ABSTRACTThe purpose of the thesis is to examine the Effect of Motivation  on  Workers Productivity in an Organization, using Uniben Enterprises (Waters) as a Case Study. The thesis incorporated a-study that was conducted to find   out   the   workers   attitudes   towards   adequate motivational incentives and the types of problems commonly being experienced by the employees in the organization. In. the thesis, hypotheses ;ere formulated and tested. The literature review compris...

The Impact of Revenue Generation on the Development of Local Government Areas (A Case Study of Sapele Local Government Amrea)

ABSTRACT The path to modern development in any society is dictated by revenue generation. The Local government as the third tier of government is saddled with the development of the rural areas. Revenue generation in Nigeria local government is principally derived from tax. Tax is a compulsory levy imposed by government on individuals and companies for the various legitimate function of the state. Tax is a necessary ingredient for civilization, The history of man has shown that man has to ...

Demand and Supply for Accounting and Auditing Services for Non-Profit Making Organization in Edo State

ABSTRACT The economic theory of the non-profit makings organization has witnessed significant progress in the last decades. the existence of non-profit making organizations has been attributed to a number of specific markets and government failures that creates the need for alternative institutional frameworks to perform some socially useful tasks. However, an important challenge faced by the evolving theory of this sector lies in taking account of the extraordinary heterogeneity and diversit...

Audit Tenure And Audit Fees Behaviour In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Nigeria Banking Sector

ABSTRACT Audit tenure and audit fee are critical variables that have been placed on the pedestal of auditing and accounting researches. The potential of these variables in influencing the independence of the auditor and consequently the financial reporting process, justifies the enormity in the level of interest that both variables have stimulated across an eclectic range of researchers, policy makers, academics and management practitioners/Auditors have a statutory duty to report on the trut...

Financial Planning and Control In States Corporations: A Case Study Of Agricultural Development Company, Adc Makurdi

ABSTRACTThe viability of any business organization be it public or private depends on the set up of it’s financial planning and control to all business, money is the means and end.This work therefore critically look at the impact of financial planning and control on public owned companies with Benue State Agricultural Development company as a main focus. The various tools of financial planning and control such as short term debts retained earnings, credit control employed by the company tow...

Warehousing

Warehousing refers to the activities involving storage of goods on a large-scale in a systematic and orderly manner and making them available conveniently when needed. In other words, warehousing means holding or preserving goods in huge quantities from the time of their purchase or production till their actual use or sale. Warehousing is one of the important auxiliaries to trade. It creates time utility by bridging the time gap between production and consumption of goods. The effective and e...

Article

This research study analyzes the relationship between liquidity and profitability in a group of companies comprising the major sugar entities listed on the Karachi stock exchange now merged to Pakistan Stock exchange using five years data from 2010 to 2014 and to run definite tests linked to numerical investigations. The aim of this work is to verify the relationship between these two indicators using the financial data published by the companies and application of statistical procedures like...

Umar Draz 13 PAGES (3719 WORDS) Finance Paper
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND VERBATIM REPORTER’S PERFORMANCE IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ABUJA

 CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.2DEFINITION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLGY 1.3FUNTIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO THE VERBATIM REPORTERS 1.4DEFINITION OF COMPUTER   1.5IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER TO VERBATIM   REPORTERS 1.6STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.7OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1.8 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.9  RESEARCH QUESTIONS/HYPOTHESIS 1.10    SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.11 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 1.12       DEFINITION OF TERMS   CHAPTER TWO 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1DE...

Economics of Computers

Introduction and Background The computer service industry can be broken down into several categories ranging from reseller to consultant. Entré Computers / Executive Business Machines Inc. (EBM) was a sales and service organization for typewriters at its inception in 1972. However, as the corporate market shifted its needs from typewriters to word processors to personal computers, so did EBM change its product line to meet that demand.

Economics in Asia

Since the mid 1960s, Pacific Asia has had a remarkable rate of economic growth. This growth has been sustainable and faster than all other regions of the world (see fig. 1). This region consists of twenty-three economies but it was just eight who caused most of this amazing growth. The eight were Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, (the “Four Tigers”) Japan and the newly industrialised economies (NIEs) of south-east Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The eigh...

Economics In Action

The manager of Quality Parts Company has been contemplating installing an automated ordering system to help control inventories and to "keep the skids filled." (She feels that two days of work in front of a workstation motivates the worker to produce at top speed.) She is also planning to add three inspectors to clean up the quality problem. Further, she is thinking about setting up a rework line to speed repairs. Although she is pleased with the high utilization of most of her equipment and ...

Critical Review of a Technology and Economics Article

The article Digital Technology and Institutional Change from the Gilded Age to Modern Times: The Impact of the Telegraph and the Internet describes the difficulties that exist when trying to create an accurate economic model showing responses to new, economy changing, technologies. The author Ronnie Phillips mainly focuses on institutional economics and, by showing the history of other technological advances, the need for institutional analysis. He explains how the challenge is to explain soc...


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