TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION DEDICTIONS iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V ABBREVIATIONS iX CHAPTER ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.1.1 Historical background 1 1.1.2 Theoretical perspective 2 1.1.3 Conceptual perspective 2 1.1.4 Contextual perspective 4 1.2 Statement of the Problem 4 1.3 Purpose of the Study 5 1.4 Objectives of the Study 5 1.5 Research Questions 5 1.7 Scope of the study 6 1.7.1 Subject Scope 6 1.7.2 Geographical Scope 6 1.7.3 Time scope 6 1.8 Significance of the...
ABSTRACT information is critical to organizations' performance in today's highly competitive environment. The Statement of Accounting Concepts 3, International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB, 1980) developed a conceptual framework for financial reporting where relevance, reliability, understandability and comparability are the qualitative characteristics that financial accounting information should possess. The study covered relevance, reliabil...
The study sought to establish the role of internal control systems on the performance of commercial banks and was driven by mainly three objectives. These objectives include; the need to investigate the effects of internal control system on the performance of Equity Bank, the need to determine the different types of internal control systems used by Equity bank, and the third objective is to establish the relationship between internal control system and performance of Equity bank. To achieve t...
Inventory management is a very important function in management especially for those firms that invest heavily in inventory. Inventory management generally looks at how best inventory (Raw materials, Work in progress and Finished goods) can be plmmed, organized and controlled in an orgm1ization so as to cut inventory cost and maximize its benefits towards the profitability and efficiency of the business. This is a research report of the research that was carried out on Uganda's Supem1arkets o...
The problem under investigation was to assess the effects of compensation on employee motivation. In short, the researcher wanted to know how salary, incentives and benefits affect the motivation of employees in an organization. Teachers Service Commission was adopted as a case study being that in the pas_t decade TSC has promised teachers a salary increment and equalizing the salary, which to presently have never been fulfilled resulting into strikes and poor perfonnance. This study adopted ...
Abstract Good managers carefully control inventory because it may represent a large part of the assets of the business. So effective inventory management system is important for business organization in their growth and survival, in manufacturing business where there are three major types of inventories: - Raw materials, goods in process of manufacture, and finished goods, all three classes of inventory are included in the current asset section of the balance sheet. Therefore if the costs are...
The research on the microfinance programs and empowerment of women provides a collection of statistical anecdote, market briefs, and concise summaries Of the researchers' findings. The rep01i offers a bird's eye view of the microfinance programs, and the changing trends dotting its landscape of women empowerment. The report starts by bringing the background of the study. Here, the researcher highlighted the reasons to why he decided to ca1Ty out the analysis and the empirical gap that was poi...
Corporate governance reflects the interaction among all stockholders, which provides resources to the company and contribute to its performance such as shareholders, employees, creditors, long-term suppliers and subcontractors. This study had the following objectives: to assess the relationship between board composition and the performance of the insurance companies in Uganda, to establish the effect of board size on p:rformance or insurance company in Uganda, to examine the effect of CEO dua...
The study examined borrov,ing cost and performance of small scale businesses; a case study of 111aybach 111otor dealers kansanga. Which has a total population of 60 e111ployees in all depart111ents ft-0111 1vhich the sa111ple size of 52 respondents was rando111ly selected. The study 11as quantitntie since the m,jor lindings fro111 the lield were descriptively presented through the use of tables and graphs for easy understanding and interpretation. The study had four research questions and fou...
The purpose of the study was to examine the fiscal decentralization on the local giovemment service delivery in Lubaga Division, Uganda. The research study was based on the following objectives: to examine the contribution of decentrali7stion in service delivery in Lubaga Division, to analyse the effect of decentralization on effectiveness in the delivery of services in Lubaga Division, to analyze the problems that affect decentralization in the social service delivery in Lubaga Division, Sel...
In Kenya, commercial banks are known for their consequent and extraordinary profits that they generate at the end of their accounting periods. The entrance of the foreign banks in the local industry within the region posses a high level of competition that has made banks to constantly come up with several and different financial products and services in order to maintain market leadership or to take over the market leadership. This research takes an investigative study of banks as financial i...
ABSTRACT In recent years, a number of studies have highlighted the effect of customer satisfaction on the growth of business organizations through empirical evidence across both developed and developing countries. In the pursuit of this type of evidence, this research clarifies the nature of the relationship between customer satisfaction and the growth of commercial banks in Uganda. In the model of this study, bank growth is a dependent variable. The quality of banking products and services,...
ABSTRACT The overall objective of the study was to find out the impact of warehouse faci lities on service delivery in public organizations in Uganda with National medical stores as the focal point. The study was guided by three research objectives. to examine the impact or '"archousing fac il it ies on service delivery in national medical stores, to examine the factors hindering warehousing fac ilities from fac il itating effective service delivery and ways of improving warehousing faci li...
ABSTRACT Finance is the lifeblood of a business. All business needs cash to operate efficiently. However, companies may not have all the cash they need to finance their operations. On the other hand, companies need to maintain and get more clients in their business. Though not all clients have cash to pay for what they need, credit is offered to them and they pay at a later date. In this study, the researcher wanted to establish the relationship between credit management and performance. The ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to investigate the acquisition and maintenance problems of human resources and possible solutions to such problems. All administrators and 30 lecturers who were selected using simple random sampling techniques were targeted to participate in the study. Among those who were given questionnaires, only 8 administrators and 21 lech ers responded to the questionnaires. Data was tabulated in tables, percentages were calculated and findings were interpre...