BOARD DILIGENCE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS

Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu () and Babatunde Titus Adejumo ()
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Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu: Department of Accounting, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Babatunde Titus Adejumo: Osun Debt Management Office, Abere, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

Contemporary Economy Journal, 2020, vol. 5, issue 3, 161-169

Abstract: The study examined the effect of board diligence on financial performance of listed deposit money banks. Data of the 10 selected DBMs were obtained from their annual financial statements from 2012 to 2018 using an ex post fact research design and purposive sampling technique. The data were analysed using inferential statistics and hypothesis testing using Generalised Method of Moment (GMM). The study found that board diligence has significant negative effect on financial performance of Nigerian listed DBMs. As regards the controlled variables, only capital adequacy and firm size were found to positively and significantly influence financial performance. Liquidity ratio was found to have direct but no significant effect on financial performance while nonperforming loan negatively and insignificantly affect financial performance. The study concludes that bard diligence reduces financial performance. It is therefore recommended that preference should be given to the quality of board meeting and not the quantity and that issues that have implications on performance should be given utmost attention at board meetings.

Keywords: Board meetings; profitability and GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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