2012 DIVIDEND POLICY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF LISTED FIRMS IN NIGERIA Uwalomwa UWUIGBE1 Covenant University‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria Jimoh JAFARU Auchi Polytechnic‚ Edo State‚ Nigeria Anijesushola AJAYI Covenant University‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT This study basically investigates the relationship between the financial performance and dividend payout among listed firms’ in Nigeria. It also looks at the relationship between ownership structure‚ size of firms and the dividend payouts. The
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Hong Kong International Airport Students Name/ ID No. : 1. Lee Pin Lit 2. Ng Wei Han 3. Yong Zi Lip 4. Lee Leong Yong 5. Loo Jia Long Lecturer Name : Shervin Motamedi ( M. Sc ) Table of Contents * Introduction * Design * Construction Stage and Process * Intentions of management or designer * Environmental risk mitigation * Conclusion Introduction : Hong Kong International Airport is one of the greatest civil engineering
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Chapter 1: Global marketing in the firm I. Introduction to globalization Globalization: reflects the trend of firms buying‚ developing producing and selling products and service in most countries and regions of the world. Benefits for the firm which do an international expansion: New and potentially more profitable markets Increase the firm’s competitiveness Facilitates access to new product ideas‚ manufacturing innovations and the latest technology Internalization: doing business in many
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Hongkong Business Culture 1. Overview Hong Kong is one of the Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of China‚ and the other is Macau. Itis located on China’s south coast. It is only 1‚104 km2 large‚ but has a population of over seven million people. Therefore‚ Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.GDP‚ Languages… Hongkongwas a colony of Britainfor a long period since the middle of the 19th century. On July 1‚ 1997‚it was returned back to China and became the Special
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A brokerage firm‚ or simply brokerage‚ is a financial institution that facilitates the buying and selling of financial securities between a buyer and a seller. Brokerage firms serve a clientele of investors who trade public stocks and other securities‚ usually through the firm’s agent stockbrokers.[1] A traditional‚ or "fuAn investment brokerage firm is a commercial enterprise‚ which functions like an helps its clients in multiple aspects. An investment brokerage firm acts as an intermediary between
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Firm Entrepreneurship and Measures of Firm Entrepreneurship Activity The main hypothesis of the economic theory of entrepreneurship is that in the economy firm entrepreneurship contributes to production through the combination of the existing productive factors. Innovation and firm entrepreneurship are found to have positive economic effects mainly in terms of employment opportunities‚ taxation revenues and economic output. The measurements of these positive effects provide the basis of international
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Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong: Issues of Inclusion Everyone in Hong Kong should have heard of the mainland parallel-goods traders who discriminated by the local citizens. The MTR Corporation’s new policy setting limit to the weight of the luggage and the demonstration against the traders held by the local citizens are some of the evidences showing the discrimination against the mainland Chinese in Hong Kong (Lee & Lo‚ 2012). Actually‚ the mainland Chinese settling in Hong Kong faces lots of barriers
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socio-economic conditions.1 Based on the social stratification‚ there are various kinds of political parties started up in order to safeguard the interests of different levels. One of the applications is the formulation of the Legislative Council (LegCo). Another assumption is that the major development in Hong Kong is the economic development. Hong Kong is reputed to be a worldwide international financial centre and ranked the first in the world of being the freest economy. So‚ Hong Kong relies
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Where could I be? The last time‚ I remember it was morning and I was swimming and now it is afternoon and I am somewhere. I guess I drowned and landed up here. I am surrounded by many people and they all look different from my country people. Men are fierce looking and wearing woolen undershirt and leggings under a belted tunic and coat. Women are wearing long linen shift under woolen tunic‚ clipped at the shoulders by two brooches. All were wearing woolen and fur hats‚ socks‚ soft leather shoes
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Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
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