[PDF] Top 20 Financial Performance in Nigerian Quoted Companies: The Influence of Political Connection and Governance Mechanisms

... Corporate governance mechanisms can aid financial ...better financial performance can be expected from companies whose corporate governance structure is such that there is ... See full document

... the governance literature that the objectivity and quality of board oversight may suffer if the CEO also chairs the ...excessive influence over the board by setting board agendas, managing meetings and ... See full document

... corporate governance practice on financial performance of quoted companies (Adeyemi & Fagbemi, ...of financial performance of quoted ...negative ... See full document

... poor governance culture and among ...2002). Political interference in ownership structure is another source of distress which results into banking industry ...domineering influence of particular ... See full document

... In CSR employees always play a strategic role as an internal stakeholder. According to Wilder, Collier, & Barnes (2014) by executeseveral employee motivation strategies, management and leaders can change the ... See full document

... of financial leverage on corporate operating performance and how this effect varies across countries using 10,375 firms in 39 ...that performance of firms with greater leverage is significantly ... See full document

... of quoted companies in Nigeria for the period of 1996- ...two companies listed on Nigerian Stock Exchange using secondary data on the firms’ fundamentals in their respective annual reports ... See full document

... Taxation is one the critical factors that affect firm value and future expected profits. For example, discounted expected after-tax cash flows can be used as a determinant for the market value of a firm. In this respect, ... See full document

... in financial related administration, profit is viewed as a trial of the proficiency and a measure of control; to the proprietors, it is depicted as the measure of the value of the whole business; to the Creditor, ... See full document

... formal governance mechanisms is negatively associated with family firms’ ...family governance mechanisms exert a significant negative influence on firm’s ...family governance ... See full document

... corporate governance among companies in various nations for excess of a ...Corporate governance has assumed a significant position in driving firm’s value creation and improving financial ... See full document

... and financial experts who worked in private sectors were found to have least concern about the well- being of the ...to influence of economics, there is much emphasis on monetary measurement since it is ... See full document

... every financial resource in order to achieve the goals of the business firm (Akinsulire, ...in financial management which involves the identification of the appropriate sources of funds that would be used ... See full document

... increase performance of the firms among ...banks quoted on the Nigerian stock exchange and the sampled commercial banks are Eco bank plc, FBN Holding plc, UBA Plc, Union Bank plc and Zenith Bank plc ... See full document

... the financial statement about the possibility of those charged with governance to commit financial ...about financial fraud and corporate ...combating financial fraud in the commercial ... See full document

... previous financial policies of government to achieve desirable economic growth was a concern that demands restructuring of the Nigerian system, especially in the glare of an ailing ... See full document

... non-listed companies; therefore, we approach only book values of debt and equity in order to lay a consistent and robust ground at the level of the whole ...approached companies that exhibit a continuous ... See full document

... firm performance, where PERF is the performance for the firm represented by return on equity (ROE), price to book value ratio (PBVR) and price earnings ratio (PER); CONC is the private ownership ... See full document

... This is supported by the argument that when a company has a high rate of profit, the company (management) do not need to report considers the things that can interfere with information about the company's ... See full document

... orientation companies in obtaining compensation related to company performance, so company management uses low cost strategy with political connections to signal to shareholders that the quality of ... See full document