Journal of Accounting and Financial Management (JAFM )
E-ISSN 2504-8856
P-ISSN 2695-2211
VOL. 9 NO. 9 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/jafm.v9.no9.2023.pg42.61
Ime Boniface Philip, Prof. Nkanikpo Ibok, Essien Amos Ukpe, Eno Gregory Ukpong
This study investigated the effect of corporate governance on financial performance in Nigeria by employing samples from non-finance firms that are listed the floor of the Nigerian Exchange Group for the period 2012-2021. In this study, board size (BODS), board independence (BODI), and board diligence (BODD) were the corporate governance proxies employed in this study. Similarly, corporate financial performance was measured in terms of Altman Z-Score (ZSCO). The population of the study consisted of all the listed non-finance firms and purposive sampling technique was employed to select 70 out of 109 companies. The panel fixed and random effect regression analyses were employed to test the hypotheses of the study. The results obtained from the regression model revealed that board size, board diligence, significantly affect the financial performance of listed firms in Nigeria. However, board independence seemed not to have any significant effect on the financial performance of listed firms in Nigeria during the period under
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