The study carried out an empirical investigation into the quantitative effect of credit risk on the performance of commercial banks in Nigeria over the period of 11 years (2000-2010). Five commercial banking firms were selected on a cross sectional basis for eleven years. The traditional profit theory was employed to formulate profit, measured by Return on Asset (ROA), as a function of the rati…
Financial accounting is concerned mainly with the historical aspects of external reporting, that is, providing fmanc :ial information to outside parties such as investors, creditors, and governments To protect those 01 itside parties from being misled, financial accounting is governed by what are called -^- ---11.. ^^^^_d C;eneruLiy uLc.epied accounting principles (GAAP). Management accounting,…
When preparations for the German edition were complete, the prospect of an English translation lay in the far distance. at it would come about so quickly, only shortly after the German edition’s appearance in , is owed to our friend and mentor, Hans-Hermann Hoppe. He not only lent his support and good counsel in the case of the first German edition— now in i…
The purpose of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS is to give students, primarily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra. Applications of d…
Statisticians refer to an entire group that is being studied as a population. Each member of the population is called a unit. In this example, the population is all Galapagos Tortoises, and the units are the individual tortoises. It is not necessary for a population or the units to be living things, like tortoises or people. For example, an airline employee could be studying the population o…