ABSTRACT Ghana which is considered as one of the fastest developing country in Africa is also considered as one of the fastest growing countries in West Africa in terms of internet usage. This study is conducted to understand the internet usage among secondary school students. The internet is becoming a platform for various activities and secondary school students are beginning to access the internet for various types of information from various parts of the world and as a means of communicat...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to find out the impact of performance and investment on corporate tax a case study of Peterson (PZ) The study aimed at assessing the impact that corporate tax has on performance and investment of manufacturing companies in the Greater Accra region, finding out if tax has an effect on the performance and investment companies and the challenges they face as fulfilling their tax obligation. The study applied quantitative research designs where annual reports we...
ABSTRACT Dividends are payments made to the shareholders (owners) out of firms‟ earnings. Numerous academics, adopting either a behavioural or empirical approach, have provided rationales to address the issue of why companies pay dividends and whether the market response to the announcements can be predicted. However, these endeavours have failed to achieve unanimity on either issue. Moreover, most of these studies have been conducted in countries with developed markets; relatively little r...
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 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 This study seeks to determine whether the graduate higher educational sector in Ghana is providing a sufficiently high quality of education for its clients, namely, the graduate students who eventually become lecturers. The research questions tackled by the study are: Are foreign trained lecturers working in Ghana’s private higher education sector more effective than locally lecturers with regards to teaching quality and ability to earn promotion in a 5- year period? Can any differ...
ABSTRACT Does the Ghanaian video-film industry possesses an opportunity for considerable economic growth? If so, what are the economic implications of a relatively large scale investment into Ghana’s film and video industry? This paper seeks to address these questions by examining the reasons behind the industry’s decline over the decades past and prescribing measures government and other stakeholders can take to promote the sustainability of the video-film industry. With the aid of schol...
ABSTRACT Governments in Africa have eulogized free markets and the role of the private sector in economic growth and development. The private sector requires an enabling environment to thrive and flourish, thus the need for a vibrant capital market to improve the private sector‟s access to capital. In lieu of this, the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has enabled businesses in Ghana and the government to raise long-term capital and helped investors to obtain liquidity, fair capital safety and div...
ABSTRACT This dissertation investigated the branding practices of Ghanaian owned hotels in Accra. This was done through a combination of qualitative and quantitative studies of fifty (50) selected hotels, which are owned by Ghanaians. Aaker’s Seven Ps model, developed in 1996, states that a business must address seven Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, Process, People and Physical environment) in its business in order to achieve effective branding. Dobree and Page (1990) also postulated ...
ABSTRACT This paper explains how standard of living in Ghana is affected as inflation changes from time to time. The need for such understanding has become relevant considering the dramatic fluctuations of inflation in Ghana especially in 2012. Additionally, inflation happens to be one of the most keenly discussed indicators in Ghana even though it is not clear whether its meaning is not lost on those who love to talk about it. Furthermore, available literature does not only lack context-spec...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to understand women’s experiences with secondgeneration gender bias in the Ghanaian banking sector. Women’s rate of advancement in leadership roles is currently higher than their rate of advancement into executive management roles in the workplace. Second-generation gender biases or implicit biases are one of the poorly addressed factors explaining the low percentages of women’s advancement into executive level management roles. First-generation gender...
Abstract As China emerges to be a new global power, its relation with Africa is overheated with domination or collaboration debate. The pessimistic argues that China offers puny aid aimed at exploiting nature resources and creating a neo-colonialism state in Africa, while the optimistic argues that Chinese aid is aimed at creating mutual win-win collaboration that tend to lift poverty in Africa. This study will attempt to offer explanation using historical and aid/investment analysis as a foc...
ABSTRACT Ghana has abundant viable land and a reasonably well educated population that can support different types of agriculture including crop production and animal husbandry. Unfortunately, in the last several years, the agricultural sector has been performing poorly and poultry production has suffered from liberal trade policies that have exposed it to competition from imported products, forcing an almost exclusive focus on egg instead of meat production. At the birth of the country, the ...