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ENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF BREWERY FIRMS IN NIGERIA(1990-2015)

Abstract The environment within which the brewery industry operates is characterized by environmental changes. Brewery firms succeed by responding promptly to their environment. In recognition of this therefore, this study examines the influence of environmental turbulence on the performance of brewery firms in Nigeria. It aims at determining the effects of exchange rate instability on the profitability of brewery firms.

Effectiveness of cost accounting information in price determination

                                                  ABSTRACT  The topic “Effectiveness of cost Accounting information in price determination is looking at cost Accounting when adequately treated and its use to the management of the organization in her planning and decision making. The need for cost accounting came with increased industrialization and expansion in manufacturing industries.  It is therefore obvious that an efficient system of costing is essential for ...

AN APPRAISAL OF THE ROLES AND POSITION OF CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE OF ANAMBRA STATE PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

                                                                                   CHAPTER ONE                                                                                   INTRODUCTION    An office cannot effectively function without secretary. A secretary is very important in every organization. Secretary is the pillar of every organizati...

Sales Promotion And Consumer Preference For Noodles: A Study Of Noodles Eaten In Moua Of Ikwuano L.G.A. Of Abia State

CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study  Sales Promotion is a tool that is used by the retailers or manufacturers to attract consumers to purchase more of their products. The outcome of sales promotion always result to the use of high amount of reserve, which attracts a lot of new customers and thereby resulting to additional increase in sales. In as much as all the marketing activities are linked with sales promotions, which results to increase in consumers’ purchases and t...

Factors Influencing Customers Patronage Of Fast Food Restaurants In Abia State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study is an attempt to examine factors influencing customers patronage of fast food restaurants: A study of selected customers of fast food in Abia state, Nigeria. Specifically, the study provides empirical evidence on factors that Influence the behaviour of consumers towards patronising the fast food restaurants. It also determined the nature of relationship between fast food restaurants determinant factors and the behaviour of consumers towards patronising the fast food restau...

Factors Influncing Customers Patronage Of Fast Food Restaurants In Abia State, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT  There is a perceived Increase In the number of fast food restaurants that crop up in every city and township In Nigeria. Thus, suggesting that the sector is gaining acceptance among consumers. Tabassum and Rahman (2012) argued that the popularity of fast food restaurant in every growing city of the world is a product of the effect of globalization. Thus, every segment of the society now consume fast food. According to Ahmed, Hossain, Malek & Begum (2008), consuming fast foods has b...

ACCESS OF MICRO CREDIT AMONG RURAL FARMERS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT Farm credit accessibility has been seen as the surest way of breaking the vicious cycle of poverty in the rural areas of developing countries, particularly in sub Saharan Africa. This study examines the challenges of farm credit accessibility by small scale farmers in Nigeria.Farming in rural Nigeria has widely changed from being activity aimed at providing food and fiber for household subsistence to one providing for the market (commercial farming). Like every competitive commercia...

PARADIGM SHIFT IN FINANCIAL SECTOR, IMPACT, EFFICIENCY AND COMPETITIVENESS IN KENYA.

INTRODUCTION: Recent dynamism in levels of competition and efficiency in the banking system can contribute to greater financial stability, product innovation, and access by households and firms to financial Services, which in turn can improve the prospects for economic growth in this respect,  concerns are that state-dominated monopolistic, inefficient, and fragile banking systems in Kenya and many low-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa majorly impact economic development. Pe...

Impact of Economic Survey Report In the Management of Cooperative Business Enterprise. A case Study of Owenite United Amuri Multi purpose Cooperative Society

ABSTRACTThis research focuses on the Impact of economic survey report in the management of coperative business enterprise using Owenite United Amuri Multi purpose cooperative society as a case study. Economic Survey is a very vital aspect necessary for registration of a cooperative organization. This research has studied the impact of economic survey report. The data presentation and analysis was done using the three different formulae usually adopted by the cooperative society under study. T...

The impacts of overhead absorption rate in pricing manufactured products. A case study of an agro based manufacturing company

  ABSTRACT The study is on the impacts of overhead absorption rate in pricing manufactured products. The choice of this research work is necessitated by the pivotal role overhead cost plays in determining selling price and profitability of the manufactured industry. The study used primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected through interviews and administration of questionnaires among staff of Presco Plc Benin, Edo State. A sample size of fifty respondents was adopted in ...

THE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF STAFF TRAINING

ABSTRACT This research work is on the problems and solutions of staff training and development. The major objective of this work was to find out the problems and solutions as it relates to staff training and development.  This works is made with  introduction etc.  It points to the concepts of training.  Reviews the existing related literatures and works of eminent authors. The methodology comprising area of study, research design, population of study, sample and sampling procedure, ins...

The Civil Service and Economic Development of Nigeria

Abstract. The civil service has over the period lost its inherited professionalism, political neutrality and developmental meritocratic ethos. The multiplier effect of which is the failure of the efforts made to date to reform and revitalise the Nigeria civil service and create economic development in Nigeria. In this speech, Prof. Ikenna Onyido explored the contributions of the civil service to the legitimisation of the Nigerian state generally and to the attainment of the country’s goal o...

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NIGERIAN CAPITAL MARKET TO BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS. (A CASE STUDY OF PORTHACOURT STOCK EXCHANGE)

ABSTRACT The Nigerian capital market was established to perform certain functions, which are paramount to the development and growth of the economy. This includes the accumulation of capital from diveresed fund serves and make such available to users of funds.The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the development of business organization, to establish the importance of the capital market in servicing the banking and manufacturing sector of business.Hypothesis formulat...

THE ROLE OF DATA PRESERVATION IN ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF SECRETARIAL FUNCTION IN THE BANKING SECTOR IN AGUATA NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ANAMBRA STATE

ABSTRACT This research work was done to find out the Role of Data Preservation in Enhancing the Efficiency of Secretarial Function in the Banking Sector in Aguata Local Government Area. In doing this, the researcher evaluated the various methods of data preservation, their advantages and disadvantages, and the functions of a secretary in an organization. It was equally revealed that users of the manual method face varying problems such as time wastage and monotony, while the computer users fa...

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING MANAGEMENT/STAFF RELATIONSHIP IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

ABSTRACT It is no longer news that the standard of education in Nigeria has drastically fallen. Different methods and approaches have been adopted severally to salvage the situation, but it has yielded no particular positive result. Bad teaching method, poor reading habits, poverty, ill-equipped laboratories and libraries, are among the claims put by scholars that had caused that standard of education in Nigeria. This paper examines the need to enhance the learning and teaching process in ter...


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