Accounting Department, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria
Samuel is a result-driven Public Health Professional and Researcher, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with experience in Health Promotion and Education, health systems; on-field qualitative and quantitative research and programs’ monitoring and evaluation. He currently holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree with Distinctions and have extensive experience in Public Health Study designs, programs’ implementation, data collection, analysis and report writing. Samuel possess exceptional skills in teaching and research, leadership, team management and Microsoft Office suites as well as proficiency in the use of SPSS and STATA software for data analysis and management.
Research Article
Earnings Persistence and Firm Performance: Implications of Analysts? Accurate Forecast Ability from the Emerging Market of Nigeria
Author(s): Anaekenwa Theophilus Aguguom*, Samuel O Dada and Appolos N Nwaobia
This paper empirically examined the potency and value relevance of earnings persistence (EPERS) and its effect on firm performance and the implications of the analysts’ accurate forecast ability from the emerging market of Nigeria. The study adopted the expo facto research design and sampled 51 companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange using stratified random sampling techniques from all the sectors from the 2000-2016 periods. Descriptive and Panel data regression statistics were employed in the analysis of the effect of earnings persistence on firm performance. Pre and post estimation tests were carried out: variance inflation factor (VIF) showed no evidence of multi-collinearity among the variables, correlation matrix test did not revealed any multi-collinearity problem, normality test using Jarque-Bera test of normality posed no problem to the study. While Breusch-Pagan.. View more»