The main aim of this study was to examine the extent to which internal control practices affected health service delivery in Rukungiri District. The research adopted a case study design using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The target population was 140 key stakeholders that lived and worked in Rukungiri District and a sample size of 104 was drawn from the target population. Our findings from the descriptive statistics, interviews conducted from key stakeholders and documentary reviews revealed a positive and significant relationship between internal control practices and health service delivery in Rukingiri District. The regression analysis results also indicated a modest model fit with adjusted r square of 0.137 which implies that about 14% variation in health service delivery was predictable by internal control practices, while the remaining 86% is explainable by other factors.

The main objective of this study was to examine the influence of board size on the financial performance of listed companies within the East African Community (EAC) and make recommendations on the board size that can enhance company financial performance within the EAC. The research adopted a positivist paradigm in a quantitative analysis using non-probability sampling to select fortytwo listed companies listed on the EACs stock markets between 2008 and 2014. We developed our hypothesis based on secondary data from databases, company's published annual reports, and websites. We used Microsoft excel and SPSS to generate, manage and analyses data used in the descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression outputs. Results from our regression analysis were inconclusive and hence we were unable to generalize the relationship between board size and company performance moderated by total assets and market capitalization. The descriptive statistics result suggests that the optimal board size in EAC lies between nine and ten members. We thus recommend to EAC-listed companies to adopt board size of nine directors to avoid the drawback of large boards such as limited members' participation, lack cohesion and consensus due to widespread opinions which may deter the board from carrying out its advisory and monitoring functions.

Small businesses in Uganda continue to lag behind trends in terms of sales turnover profitability, employee growth, while others rarely live to celebrate their first birthday due to various constraints of which financing is at the forefront. This study set out to determine the relationship between various financing options and sustainable small business growth so as to suggest an optimal financing model to ensure sustainable small businesses. The study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey design to analyse a sample of 399 small businesses which were selected using stratified random sampling from Kampala Metropolitan Area. Data were collected using a researcher administered structured questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics. The relationship between the variables was determined using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficeint. The study established that there is a weak positive significant correlation between traditional debt finance and sustainable small business growth, a strong positive significant correlation between asset-based finance and sustainable small business growth, and a strong positive significant correlation between crowdfunding and sustainable small business growth. The study further established that there is a moderate positive significant relationship between equity finance and sustainable small business growth. The study concluded that improving on the available financing options would improve on the sustainable small business growth. It is recommended that the ideal model for financing small businesses should be the integration of the financing options, but giving priority to; asset based lending, crowdfunding, equity finance and lastly traditional debt finance.

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The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance; compare the influence of corporate governance on firm performance before and after the operationalization of the EAC- Common Market in 2010 and make recommendations about corporate governance codes that enhances firm performance. We adopted a positivist paradigm in a quantitative analysis using non-probability sampling to select forty-two EAC-listed companies. Hypothesizes were developed from literature review and secondary data from academic databases and annual reports was extracted and analysed using SPSS version 23 to generate descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression output. Our findings revealed that gender diversity of the board and enterprise risk management had no significant influence on firm performance but the relationship between board independence, the board size, and firm performance was inconclusive. On the changes in corporate governance indicators before and after the operationalization of the EAC Common Market in 2010, we discovered insignificant changes nevertheless, the results from regression model fit revealed that the indicators become relatively more relevant to company financial performance after the operationalization of the EAC Common Market in 2010 than before.