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Prior researches on the differences in classroom performance between male and female students show mixed results. While significant differences exist in some studies, others show no differences. Moreover, such studies were done in developed countries. This study aims to contribute to this gender discourse by using a developing country setting. It was hypothesized in this study that no differences exist between male and female performance in undergraduate accounting courses. The finding of this study reveals that there is no significant difference between academic performance of male and female accounting students in undergraduate accounting courses, although the males achieve a higher mean performance than their female counterpart in all the courses.

The objectives of the study were to identify the significant variables that underlie economic growth in Nigeria, ascertain the stability of the economic growth model in Nigeria over the sample period, and examine the forecasting performance of the linear dynamic model. This study applies a linear dynamic model based on Pesaran et al. (2001) multivariate autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling technique to analyze the short-run and long-run dynamics of economic growth in Nigeria over the sample period between 1986 and 2013 using quarterly data. The empirical results show that economic growth in Nigeria finds explanation in adaptive expectations. The main determining variables of economic growth in Nigeria in the short-run and long-run are expected economic growth, population and trade openness. To achieve sustainable economic growth, it is suggested that government policies directed at improving the performance of the economy should largely consider the short-run and longrun behaviour of these variables and the policies should be pursued with high degree of transparency.

This research focuses on who controls shareholder’s wealth maximization and how does this affect firm’s performance in publicly quoted non-financial companies in Nigeria. The shareholder fund was the dependent while explanatory variables were firm size (proxied by log of turnover), retained earning (representing management control) and dividend payment (representing measure of shareholders control). The data used for this study were obtained from the Nigerian Stock Exchange [NSE] fact book and the annual reports of the six sampled companies from Food/ Beverages and tobacco sub-sector for twenty years (1986-2005) to constitute pooled data of 120 observations. Using auto-regression technique for correcting serial auto-correlation in time series data, the results converge at ten iterations. Results showed that all the independent variables provide good explanation for the model. It was observed that firm size (log of turnover) and retained earnings had positive relationships and statistically significant impacts on the shareholders fund while dividend payment had negative relationship. The results show that turnover and retained earnings are of more significance in the control of shareholders wealth than the dividend payment. Thus, we can conclude that the management of the organizations under the present study is in major control of shareholders wealth maximization objective and impact on the firm performance. Implication is that selecting high quality management for the organizations would help in achieving shareholders wealth maximization objective in organizations.

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