ABSTRACT
The recent occurrence of financial malpractices in the service producing companies in Nigeria has made the country economic condition to be deteriorating on a geometrical bases, this has really caused an adverse effect on the entire economy. Financial malpractices are stooge that has to be uprooted and totally eradicated; else the entire sector of the economy will be eaten up by the menace. This research study is embarked upon to evaluate the effect of financial malpractice on the service-producing companies in Nigeria, this study also provides the necessary solution that can be adopted to solve the problem of financial malpractice in the service-producing sector of the economy.
In doing this, questionnaires were distributed to the staffs and customer of PHCN, which are analyzed and the used as the main research methodology for concluding on the research findings.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE i
CERTIFICATION ii
DEDICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv - v
ABSTRACT vi
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1 – 4
1.2 PROBLEM OF THE STUDY 5 – 6
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 7 - 8
1.4 STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESES 8 - 9
1.5 JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STUDY 9
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 10
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 10-11
1.8 PLAN OF THE STUDY 10
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS 11- 13
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 14
2.2 MEANING OF FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES 14-16
2.3 MEANING OF CORRUPTION 16-19
2.4 FORMS OF FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES 19-22
2.5 FORMS OF CORRUPTIOIN 23-29
2.6 EFFECT OF FINANCIALMALPRACTICES IN
THE SERVICE COMPANIES 29-31
2.7 EVILS OF FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES
IN THE SERVICE COMPANIES 32-36
2.8 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 36
2.9 EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF CORRUPTION 36-43
2.10 CODE OF CONDUCT, ETHICS AND
FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES 43-45
2.11 NIGERIA AND FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES 46-49
2.12 THE STRUCTURE OF NIGERIA SERVICE
COMPANIES 49-50
2.13 EMPERICAL EVIDENCE 50
2.14 FINANCIAL MALPRACTICES CASES
IN NIGERIA 50-53
2.15 BILLING SYSTEM IN P H C N 53
2.16 PRIVATIZATION OF POWER HOLDING
COMPANIES OF NIGERIA 54-56
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN 57
3.3 SOURCES AND TYPES OF DATA 57-58
3.4 INSTRUMENTS OF DATA COLLECTION 58
3.5 POPULATION OF THE STUDY 58
3.6 SAMPLING AND SAMPLE SIZE 59
3.7 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS 59 - 60
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION
4.1 QUESTIONNAIRE DISTRIBUTION
AND COLLECTION 61-63
4.1.1 RESPONDENTS PERSONAL PROFILE 63-98
4.2 TEST OF HYPOTHESIS 99
4.2.1 HYPOTHESIS I 99-100
4.2.2 HYPOTHESIS II 100-102
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCUSION
AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY 103-104
5.2 CONCLUSION 104-105
5.3 RECOMMENDATION 105-107
REFERENCE
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