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Social Accounting as a Method of Assessing the Impact of Development Activities A case study of Nsukka Local Government Area, Enugu State

ABSTRACT The title of this research work is, Social accounting as a method of the impact of development activities’’ with particular referent to Nsukka local Government Area in Enugu State. It has been identified that accounting and financial reporting in the public sector particularly at the local government level was not given adequate attention.       In the course of coining out this study, the following objectives among other were set which included The identification of major ca...

THE PROSPECT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ENHANCING HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY IN A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (SYNTAX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY NIGERIA LIMITED)

ABSTRACT This research work tends to explain the prospects of human resource management in enhancing higher productivity and also explain the human resource objective policies and importance of human resource management as in whole of adequate utilization of people or staff in organization towards enhancing higher productivity, while on the other hand looking at the various methods of data collection with their advantages and disadvantages. The researcher employed the use of both Primary (i.e...

THE IMPACT OF LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT The success of any bank is to a large extent dependent on how effective it can manage its liquidity.  In respect of this, the research project seek to evaluate the impact of liquidity management on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria, and in relation to this, explore the extent to which effective liquidity management can enhance the profitability and survival of banks in Nigeria. The regression analysis was applied on data on relevant data such as the industrial liquid...

THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF A STATE

ABSTRACT The impact of entrepreneurial development in any developing economy can never be over emphasized as result of the its exponential developmental capacity through small and medium scale businesses that  are springing up in every nook and cranny of the country almost on daily basis.  It is as a result of this that the subject matter “ entrepreneurial development “ would be treated  from the perspective of small and medium scale enterprises in the country. The vibrancy noticed in ...

THE PROCUREMENT ACT AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF OFFICERS IN PUBLIC SECTOR

INTRODUCTION This study intends to shed more light on the impact of public procurement act on the accountability of procurement officers in public sector in Kaduna state ministry of education and how it contribute positively towards the conservation of resources in a services organization.  However, the researcher feel it would be of great importance to conduct a detailed study on the procurement process or system used by the services organization and the impact of federal government procure...

Functionalism Theory

INTRODUCTION The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim, who was especially interested in how social order is possible or how society remains relatively stable. Functionalism interprets each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole society. Society is more than the sum of its parts; rather, each part of society is functional for the s...

RISK MANAGEMENT, MEANS OF MINIMISING ACCIDENT IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT Our risk exposures are influenced by our economy, lifestyles, psychical well being, occupation, environment etc., there variables are dynamic therefore risk managers and analyst must be dynamic in their choice of tools to manage risk exposures.  In their choice of tools to manage risk exposures, in this project all the knowledge that might be useful to risk managers, however have been presented in the most important process and readable way. Consequently, this project have been orga...

THE CAPITAL MARKET AS A CATALYST TOOL FOR THE GROWTH OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY

ABSTRACT This research work sets out to evaluate the impact of capital market as a catalyst tool for the growth of Nigerian insurance industry.  The problem that prompted the research of this project was in connection with the need to recapitalize the insurance industry and position it for challenges of rising industrial and commercial activities of globalizing economy such as Nigeria, among the objectives of the study were; 1.To examine the reasons for insurance firms sourcing fund from the...

SURE-P A STRATEGY FOR JOB CREATION IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT A job creation strategy to provide 10,000 jobs in two years has been developed by the ministry in collaboration with the commonwealth. The recent declaration by the national Bureau of Statistics that almost 100 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day succinctly describes the enormity of the fundamental flows in all the strategies deployed by successive governments in the country in tackling the issue of poverty alleviation and job creation. Furthermore, the youth empowerment a...

THE PROCESS OF PRODUCT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN MARKETING

PREFACE The pieces of work has been undertaken as a partial fulfillment of the award of National Diploma in Business Studies in Kaduna Polytechnic. The topic of the essay written on THE PROCESS OF PRODUCT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT. The essay work is divided into three (3) chapter.  The first chapter is brief introduction of product planning and development in marketing.  Its aim and objective of the essay, the scope of the essay and finally definition of some key terms in the essay. The seco...

THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY SOCIAL WORKERS IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE (A case study of Selected social welfare centres)

ABSTRACT  In totality the project is concerning the problem encountered by social workers in social work practice. In details, this project consists of five chapters, the first chapter is the introduction part were the researcher highlights the background, aims, objectives and significance of the study as well as research question. Constitute the chapter one, second chapter the researcher review the different contribution made by authors about the problems encountered by social workers in so...

THE NATURE OF INTERNAL AUDIT SYSTEM IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION REGULATORY ORGANIZATION

INTRODUCTION  Given today complex and rapidly changing management climate, most large companies, major institution and governmental agencies are implementing continuous improvements to achieve efficiency and assure all concerned parties of solid corporate governance. The nature of interval audit system simply means explaining some of the  key terms in the project topic, the internal system.  According to the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) definition of internal auditing the interna...

THE METHOD OF CREDIT CONTROL IN COMMERCIAL BANKS (A CASE STUDY OF FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, KADUNA)

ABSTRACT The objective of this project work is to provide an insight on the method of credit control in commercial banks. The findings are based on the outcome of going through First Bank publications, newspaper and reports and other corresponding reports of the first Bank office. The study work is divided into five chapters as follows; chapter one, the background of the study was presented specifically on the role of commercial banks and the scope of the study. Chapter two discusses the loan...

IMPACT OF AUDITING IN DETECTING AND CONTROLLING FRAUD IN NIGERIA BANKING INDUSTRY

ABSTRACT Human beings are often said to be the most difficult animal God created because it would always desire for something or conditions better than the one it find itself. The notion has proven itself to be true giving the incessant cases of financial frauds that have littered the history of human race.  Funny enough, fraud and other financial irregularities are on the increase in the banking institutions where money are supposed to be keep safe and free from harms and troubles.   This ...


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