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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...

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...

Computers And Marketing

Marketing is the process by which goods are sold and purchased. The aim of marketing is to acquire, retain, and satisfy customers. Modern marketing has evolved into a complex and diverse field. This field includes a wide variety of special functions such as advertising, mail-order business, public relations, retailing and merchandising, sales, market research, and pricing of goods.

The Effect of Corporate Goverance on Manufacturing Companies

INTRODUCTION The term "Corporate Governance" has been identified to mean different things to different people.Magdi and Nadereh (2002) stress that corporate governance is about ensuring that the business is run well and investors receive a fair return. OECD (1999) provides a more encompassing definition of corporate governance. It defines corporate governance as the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled. The corporate governance structure specifies the distributio...

MERGER AND ACQUISITION IN CORPORATE PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA BANKING INDUSTRY

abstract mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Simply put when organizations have no chance of survival they give themselves a last chance by merging or by being acquired, though the ultimate goal of every businesses in today’s world is to grow or be face with liquidation. mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">In any developed countries like Nigeria, the ability of banking industry to play its significantrole has periodically bee...

THE USE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AS A TOOLS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING (CASE STUDY OF ACCESS BANK OF NIGERIA, PLC, SAGAMU BRANCH)

ABSTRACT The major purpose of the use of financial accounting information is to minimize risk, failure and uncertainties and also stay ahead of competitors. Notwithstanding the immense benefit of use of accounting information, it is generally acknowledged that most unqualified accountants generate inaccurate information and so result in failure of organizations to achieve desired goal. There are cases of managers refusing the use of accounting information because of their inability to interpr...

THE EFFECT OF TAX EVASION ON REVENUE GENERATION BY INFORMAL SECTOR AMONG SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EKITI STATE

ABSTRACT Meeting the demands of the society calls for a large bulk of funds which an individual or community could not contribute alone. One of the main methods through which these funds are generated for the government is through taxation. Members of the public who are capable of paying tax are expected to discharge their civic responsibility by paying their taxes to contribute to the development and administration of the society at large. Alas, it is a known fact that every government d...

THE INFLUENCE OF ORPHANAGE HOME ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN KWARA STATE RECEPTION CENTER, ILORIN

Introduction In recent times  The orphanage home is one of the numerous social institution that have emerged over the years to carter for some of social need of orphanage associated with such problem(German and Marshall 2002). Motherless babies have nowadays become common because of the moral Decadences of the Society young people who cannot carter for themselves, find themselves put in the family way they end up find abandoning those innocent babies. The increases hardship because of the...

THE EFFECT OF CARD READERS ON ELECTION CREDIBILITY IN NIGERIA CASE STUDY OF 2015 GENERAL ELECTION

ABSTRACT The real issue in the 2015 general elections in Nigeria was the use of the smart card reader. The smart card reader was a critical component in the elections. It was used for the first time in the electoral process of Nigeria and it remains one of the greatest technological innovations of the 2015 general elections. The smart card reader is a technological device setup to authenticate and verify on Election Day a Permanent Voter Card (PVC) issued by Independent National Electoral Com...

Roles of auditors on organisational performances of manufacturing firms

ABSTRACT In recent times there has been much discussion about the independence of Auditors; the leadership of the auditing standards board, the public oversight board, the independence standards board, and most recently the proposed independence rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have all attempted to clarify and strengthen auditor role on the financial statement for good decision making.  Also in the medieval era financial statements were not necessary and h...

THE EFFECT OF ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUES ON SMALL BUSINESS PERFORMANCES. (CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SMALL SCALE BUSINESS OPERATOR IN AMUWO ODOFIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, LAGOS STATE)

ABSTRACT mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Most of the existing research literature on accounting in Nigeria SMEs tends to be more biased toward the use of financial accounting techniques and methods by small business onwers, information technology adoption as well as research in credit accessibility for SMEs, more so only remote exists in regard of the adoption of modern accounting techniques by SMEs in Nigeria. mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Many small business owners are daunte...


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