The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria

The issue revolving around corporate governance and financial performance has always been an essential and critical element for banking sector in Nigeria. Good corporate governance practices and establishing a separate risk management committee are regarded as important in reducing risk for investor...

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Main Author:	Abubakar, Ahmad Haruna
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2018
Subjects:	HG Finance
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/1/s820883_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/2/s820883_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/3/s820883_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.82432021-11-22T00:40:25Z The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria 2018 Abubakar, Ahmad Haruna Kamardin, Hasnah College of Business (COB) College of Business (COB) HG Finance The issue revolving around corporate governance and financial performance has always been an essential and critical element for banking sector in Nigeria. Good corporate governance practices and establishing a separate risk management committee are regarded as important in reducing risk for investors, and improving performance. This study investigates the effect of board and risk management committee attributes (board size, board independence, board financial knowledge, risk management committee independence, risk management committee size, and existence of separate risk management committee) on the financial performance of listed banks in Nigeria. Furthermore the research used secondary data obtained from the annual report of fourteen (14) banks listed in the Nigerian stock exchange for the year 2014-2016 with 42 firm-year observations and based on panel data approach. Furthermore, the regression estimates are based on random effect. The result indicates that board size, board independence, and board financial knowledge exhibit a significant negative relationship with ROA. Meanwhile, risk management committee independence has a negative insignificant relationship with ROA. Furthermore, risk management committee size, and existence of separate risk management committee show positive significant relationship with ROA. Besides providing suggestion for future research work, this study provides several recommendation for regulators and the Nigerian banking industry. 2018 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/1/s820883_01.pdf text eng 2021-06-21 public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/2/s820883_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/3/s820883_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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description	The issue revolving around corporate governance and financial performance has always been an essential and critical element for banking sector in Nigeria. Good corporate governance practices and establishing a separate risk management committee are regarded as important in reducing risk for investors, and improving performance. This study investigates the effect of board and risk management committee attributes (board size, board independence, board financial knowledge, risk management committee independence, risk management committee size, and existence of separate risk management committee) on the financial performance of listed banks in Nigeria. Furthermore the research used secondary data obtained from the annual report of fourteen (14) banks listed in the Nigerian stock exchange for the year 2014-2016 with 42 firm-year observations and based on panel data approach. Furthermore, the regression estimates are based on random effect. The result indicates that board size, board independence, and board financial knowledge exhibit a significant negative relationship with ROA. Meanwhile, risk management committee independence has a negative insignificant relationship with ROA. Furthermore, risk management committee size, and existence of separate risk management committee show positive significant relationship with ROA. Besides providing suggestion for future research work, this study provides several recommendation for regulators and the Nigerian banking industry.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abubakar, Ahmad Haruna
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title	The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria
title_short	The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria
title_full	The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria
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publishDate	2018
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/1/s820883_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/2/s820883_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8243/3/s820883_references.docx
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The Effect of Board and Risk Management Committee Attributes on the Financial Performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria

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