Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Financial Performance of Listed Insurance Firms in Nigeria (Published)
The backdrop of contending views that CSR is merely façade, just a marketing campaign, and that CSR disclosures among insurance companies in Nigeria are very scanty; whereas organizations desire to be seen as legitimate corporate citizens satisfying various stakeholders, justify this study to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and financial performance of listed insurance companies in Nigeria. Based on the ex-post-facto research design, this study employed secondary data obtained from published financial statements of sampled seven insurance firms between 2015 and 2022. These seven insurance companies are all currently listed in Nigerian Exchange Group. The data gathered was analysed using simple linear regression technique based on the ordinary least square method assisted by E-Views version 9. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance based on the specific study objectives, using the results of analysis. The findings revealed that corporate social responsibility disclosures have statistically positive significant relationship with earnings per share, net profit margin, and return on assets of listed insurance firms in Nigeria. It was recommended that the management of insurance companies should adopt policies that would favour appropriate increase in corporate social responsibility to enhance performance and peaceful coexistence with their host communities.
Keywords: Assets, Earnings, Legitimacy., Performance, Returns, profit, stakeholder
Capital Structure and Firm Performance Nexus in Nigeria: A Case Study of Aluminum Extrusion Company PLC (Published)
This study investigated the link between capital structure and firm performance in Nigeria using Aluminum Extrusion Company PLC (ALEX), a company listed under the Basic material sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange as a case study. The study adopted return on capital employed as proxy for firm performance (response variable), while capital structure components such as debt to equity ratio, debt to capital employed ratio and equity to capital employed ratio were used as the explanatory variables. Secondary data were collected from the annual published financial reports of the company for the period 2009 to 2018. The study employ descriptive statistics and multiple regression technique based on the E- view 9.0 Software as the methods of data analysis. The results revealed that debt to equity ratio has significant positive effect on return on capital employed, debt to capital employed ratio has negative influence on return on capital employed and equity to capital employed ratio has no influence on return on capital employed. Overall, capital structure has no significant effect (at 5% level) on firm performance. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that the company should finance her activities with retained earnings and use debt as the last option as this is in agreement with the perking Order theory; that the indirect effect of capital structure on firm performance be analyzed by future researchers and that the company managers are advised to be extremely conscious in the use of debt financing as an option in their capital mix up to the optimal limits, as debt to equity ratio provides positive effect though not significant on performance.
Keywords: Capital, Debt, Equity, Firm, Performance, Returns, Structure, employed