Research Papers/Topics in Finance

ASSESSING STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTION ON HEALTHCARE CLAIMS FRAUD CONTROL AT TAKORADI MUTUAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME

ABSTRACT The National Health Insurance Scheme is bedevilled with lots of problems. One of such problems is payment of persistent and ever-increasing healthcare claims. This phenomenon, if not properly controlled, may have the futuristic propensity to hamper the smooth running of Takoradi Mutual Health Insurance scheme (TMHIS) in particular and health insurance schemes in the country in general. The main aim of this study was to assess stakeholders’ perception on healthcare claims fraud cont...

Financial Literacy and Personal Finance in the Cape Coast Metropolis

ABSTRACT The study aimed generally to determine the scope of financial literacy and personal financing by people in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Under subscription of questionnaires  led  to  436  respondents  from  the  cluster  sampling  method  being used  in  the  analysis.  This  allowed  the  determination  of  the  various  components and factors of financial literacy and personal finance. Factor analysis determined which indicators from various scenarios respo...

ANALYSIS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED OF SELECTED LISTED BANKS IN GHANA (2006-2010)

ABSTRACT  The  study  analysis  shareholders’  economic  value  added  (EVA)  as  a performance  measure  of selected listed  Banks in Ghana  to provide evidence about  its  ability  as  a  measure  compared  to  conventional  accounting  ratios: return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA) and earning per share (EPS). To  achieve  this,  EVA  of  listed  banks  on  the  Ghana  Stock  Exchange was  compared  with  traditional  accounting  ratio...

RISK PREMIUM AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN AFRICA

ABSTRACT  Canonical finance theory holds that capital should move to the assets with the greater risk premium. Does foreign direct investment (FDI) move to countries with a higher country risk premia? We address this question in this study.  We proxied country risk premium as the difference between the equity risk premium of an Africa country and the equity risk premium of US, sovereign bond spread and we measured foreign direct investment as the foreign inflows scaled by gross domesti...

BANKS NOVELTIES AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN GHANA

ABSTRACT  The chief thrust of this work is to examine the stimulus banks novelties has on fiscal  performance  in Ghana  profitable  banks  listed.  This  research  selected these banks registered on the interchange market to avoid issues of subjective outcomes which may lead to skeptical issues later on. Specifically, the study sought to: look at, the influence bank innovations have on net interest margin in Ghana  commercial  banks,  scrutinize  the  stimulus  banks  n...

Ownership Structure and Investment Cashflow Sensitivity of Ghanaian Listed Firms

ABSTRACT  There is overwhelming evidence in empirical literature that in the presence of market imperfections, investments of financially constraint firms become sensitive to the availability of internal finance.  There are also contradictory evidences regarding the pattern of the observed investment cash flow sensitivity. However, most of the empirical work on the responsiveness of firms’ investment to cash flow was done using data from developed markets. This study examines not jus...

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RE-ENGINEERED INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, KENYA

The development of the Integrated Financial Management Information system was a move by the Kenyan government in 1998 through the Ministry of National Treasury to implement Public Financial Management ( PFM) reforms. This system was to be later deployed in other ministries five years later in 2003. Just like any other system out there, the implementation of IFMIS was not without its challenges and thus prompting a re-engineering program in 2011 that was aimed at making the system reliable and...

The Response of the UK Stock Market to the Announcement of a Merger/Acquisition. Evidence from Target and Bidder Companies

This dissertation uses the event study methodology to examine the short-run cumulative abnormal returns to UK based mergers and acquisitions between the years 2008-2014. By examining this short-run cumulative abnormal returns, the response of the UK stock market to the announcement of mergers/acquisitions post-financial crisis was deduced. To measure the stock market response accurately, a random sample of 128 companies engaging in consolidation transactions between 2008-2014 is broken down i...


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