The Significant of Investment Appraisal Techniques to Management Decision Making (A Case Study of United Bank Of Africa)

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page

Certificate

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Table of content

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    General Introduction of the research

1.1    Introduction

1.2    Statement of the research problem

1.3    Objective of the study  

1.4    Significance of the study

1.5    Scope and Limitation of the study

1.6    Research methodology

1.7    Organisation of the study

1.8    Definition of term

1.9    The general hypothesis

CHAPTER TWO:        

2.0    Literature review

2.1    Literature review

2.2    Decision making model for capital investment decision

2.3    Measurement of investment worth, appraisal techniques

2.4    Tax implication on investment appraisal

2.5    Effect of inflation on capital investment appraisal

2.6    Significance of investment appraisal techniques

References

CHAPTER THREE

3.0    Research Methodology and case study

3.1    Introduction

3.2    Historical background of UBA Plc

3.3    Limitation of the methodology

3.4    Research design and appraisal

3.5    Mode of data collection and data analysis

3.6    Study of population and sampling techniques

3.7    Administration of data collection

3.8    Restatement of the research question and hypothesis

CHAPTER FOUR:

4.0    Data presentation and analysis

4.1    Introduction

4.2    Presentation of result

4.3    Test of hypothesis

4.4    Generalization

CHAPTER FIVE:

5.0   Summary, Conclusion and recommendation

5.1    Summary

5.2    Conclusion

5.3    Recommendation

References and bibliography

Appendices

CHAPTER ONE

1.0   GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF THE RESEARCH

1.1 INTRODUCTION       

In a modern economy, there are varieties of different enterprises, varying in size from a single entrepreneur to the multinational corporation in an activities methods of finance form of organization marketing strategies and so on. However, all these entrepreneur have one basic aim which is to utilize resources to best achieve the firm goal or objectives. The word ‘firm is used in a general term to encompass the decision-making unit which is engaged in the transformation of input into outputs. The investment decision of the firm is generally known as capital budgeting or capital investment decision. Investment decisions are that decisions that involve current outlays in return for a stream of benefits in future years. In another word, investment decision include the firms decision to put its current fund in the longterm assets in anticipation of an expected flow to benefit over a series of years. The firm’s investment decision will include expansion, acquisition, in organization and replacement of the long-term assets decisions, other activities like research and development, advertisement, change in method of distribution and so many also be evaluated as investment decision thus investment in fixed and current asset is one single activity.