Journal Articles: Recent submissions
Now showing items 261-280 of 1013
-
INFLUENCE OF INDEPENDENCE OF INTERNAL AUDIT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SEMI-AUTONOMOUS AGENCIES IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY IN NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes (IJBMP) Vol 4. Issue No.2. November, 2018. PP 209-217, 2018)Semi-autonomous government agencies within the state department of energy are critical to the taxpayer and the government for efficiency in public service delivery. Diverse studies have examined the role of internal ... -
INFLUENCE OF CREATIVE ACCOUNTING PRACTICES ON TAX EVASION AMONGST SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NAKURU, KENYA
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes (IJBMP) Vol 4. Issue No.2. November, 2018. PP 127-135., 2018)Tax evasion has become a challenge to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). In April of 2018 for instance, KRA charged a business person with a KSh. 7 billion tax evasion that was undertaken through use of fraudulent accounting ... -
Human Elements and their Influence on Student Satisfaction at Selected Public Universities in Kenya
(Human Elements and their Influence on Student Satisfaction at Selected Public Universities in Kenya, 2019)The number of higher education seekers has been increasing globally and in particular this sector has been the fastest growing industry in Kenya. The demand for higher education has been amplified by the liberalization ... -
Factors Affecting Provision of Quality Service in the Public Health Sector: A Case of Nyahururu District Hospital, Kenya
(International journal of management and economics invention ||Volume||2||Issue||09||Pages-852-896, 2016)In healthcare industry service quality has become an imperative in providing patient satisfaction because delivering quality service directly affects the patient’s satisfaction. The public health sector should ensure ... -
EVALUATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES’ CREDIT WORTHINESS BY COMMERCIAL BANKS IN NAKURU TOWN, KENYA
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes (IJBMP) Vol 4. Issue No.2. November, 2018. PP 191-208, 2018)Small and Micro Enterprises play a vital role in job creation and make significant contributions to economic growth in developed and developing economies alike. However, one on the main challenges of small and micro enterprise ... -
Empirical examination of appropriateness of profitability ratios model in predicting shareholder wealth of Nairobi securities exchange listed non-financial firms, Kenya
(International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management United Kingdom. Vol. VII, Issue 12, December 2019, 2019)Financial statements based on requirements of international accounting standards and specific legislative requirements are considered by users to be objective indicators of performance, financial strength and shareholder ... -
Effect environmental activities on the financial performance of small and medium sized companies in Kenya
(International Journal of Academic Research and Development .Volume 4; Issue 6; November 2019; Page No. 51-57, 2019)This study therefore seeks to analyze the effect of annual cost of environmental activities on the financial performance of small and medium sized enterprises in Kenya. The study is anchored on triple bottom line model ... -
EFFECT OF BUDGET PLANNING ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NAKURU TOWN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
(International Journal of Business Management and Processes (IJBMP) Vol 4. Issue No.2. November, 2018. PP 79-88., 2018)Several Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) fail to make budgets; others do it but fail to constantly update their budgets and evaluate their progress against the actual budgets, or are disgruntled by the futility of ... -
Does University Education Produce “Half-Baked” Graduates? Perspectives from Graduates of a Kenyan University
(African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR). Special Issue, January 2020. (103 - 119), 2020)University education in Kenya has had an exponential growth in terms of the number of chartered universities and that of students’ enrolment over the past decade. This phenomenal growth has been occasioned by the need ... -
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HOUSING COOPERATIVES IN KENYA
(European Journal of Economic and Financial Research. Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017, 2017)Housing cooperatives were introduced in Kenya in the early 1980s and currently there are 650 registered housing cooperatives which are affiliated to the National Cooperative Housing Union (NACHU). Official statistics ... -
An Assessment of the Role of Credit Reference Bureau in Influencing Customer Credit Access in Mitigating Against Credit Default in Commercial Banks in Kenya
(International Journal of Research in Management . 7, Vol. 6 (October-November 2017), 2017)The study examined the role of Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) in influencing customer credit access in mitigating default risk among commercial banks in Kenya. The study was based on the theories of Adverse Selection and ... -
Assessing the Effects of M-Shwari on Financial Inclusion among Muhoroni Factory Sugarcane out - Growers’ Households in Muhoroni Sub-County, Kenya
(European Journal of Business and Management . Vol.8, No.19, 2016, 2016)In Kenya today the decline in cane production per given unit area has led to a domestic sugar consumption deficit that averages 200,000 tonnes of sugar annually. An aggressive financial inclusion strategy in the sugar ... -
Appropriateness of Liquidity Ratios Model in Predicting Shareholder Wealth of Non-Financial Firms Listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
(Research Journal of Finance and Accounting Vol.10, No.22, 2019, 2019)It is necessary that efforts are put in place by the global investing public to address the ever increasing need to accurately measure performance and financial strength of firms (Pandey, 2013). Analysts of financial ... -
A Suvery of Biometric Authentication Technologies Towards Secure And Robust Systems: A Case Study of Mount Kenya University
(2022-03)In response to the increased demand for more effective authentication methods, the usage of biometric authentication to secure systems against unwanted access has grown. Because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, ... -
A Survey of Deep Learning Solutions for Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos
(Asian Online Journals, 2021-10)Deep learning has proven to be a landmark computing approach to the computer vision domain. Hence, it has been widely applied to solve complex cognitive tasks like the detection of anomalies in surveillance videos. Anomaly ... -
Under Voltage Load Shedding on a Modified IEEE 14-Bus System Using Hybrid ABC-PSO Algorithm for Voltage Stability Enhancement
(Elsevier, 2021-08)Voltage collapse tends to occur due to the voltage instability created during large faults. As a last resort, under-voltage load shedding (UVLS) is performed after all the available power operation and control mechanisms ... -
Development of DSTATCOM Optimal Sizing and Location Technique Based on IA-GA for Power Loss Reduction and Voltage Profile Enhancement in an RDN
(IJEER Forex Press, 2022-01)The efficiency of electrical distribution systems is being more affected by the increase in voltage drops and power losses. These issues of voltage drop and power loss can be significantly minimized by the incorporation ... -
Application of large-scale grid-connected solar photovoltaic system for voltage stability improvement of weak national grids
(Springer Nature Ltd, 2021-12)This paper investigates the application of large-scale solar photovoltaic (SPV) system for voltage stability improvement of weak national grids. Large-scale SPV integration has been investigated on the Nigerian power system ... -
Multiobjective optimal power flow for static voltage stability margin improvement
(Elsevier, 2021-12)Worldwide, utilities are aiming to increase the stability of modern power systems during system disturbances. Optimizing generation scheduling can improve system security in contingency and stressed conditions while lowering ... -
Modeling and Energy Management Strategy in a Grid Connected Solar PV System
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2021-09)Electric power is substantially an important resource in the modern world. With the increase in demand for electric energy, there is a need to search for alternative energy sources because conventional resources are being ...
