The paper investigated the effect of saving behavior and debt-service on the debt burden and its effect on some economic indicators, debt service to export, export to GDP, debt service to GDP, savings rate and income per capita of 14 West African Countries. The data from the World Bank economic indicators for the period 1985-2015 were used as models. This was analyzed using fixed and random effect regressions and houseman tests to determine the most appropriate estimator. The results revealed that the national savings of these countries should play a significant role in terms of payment of debt services and the countries' ability to reducing their total debt burden. It is also revealed that an increase in the export/GDP growth will lead to growth in the country’s economy by providing more resources to pay the national debt, both external and domestic debt. The national saving rate should aim at improving the economic growth rate through a higher saving ]rate. The paper recommends that these countries should pursue a balanced saving policy, increase the export/GDP ratio and total revenue generated for a fully sustainable reduction of total debt burden so that future generations would not inherit a huge debt burden.

The paper examined the accounting quality in the financial statement, concerning earnings management practices by managers. The financial statements provide critical information that is useful to various groups, investors, standard setters, shareholders and government. The practices of various methods of earnings management are classified into accounting-based and market-based earnings management. The study classified the earnings management techniques in various ways that affect the quality of financial statements in the pre and post-IFRS adoption. The introduction of IFRS and its accompanying standards in the area of earnings management might imply real improvements in the financial statements about the quality. The earnings management techniques include the following: earnings management towards a target, earnings smoothing, discretionary accruals, accruals quality, and timely loss recognition as against other proxies of accounting quality. These are opportunities managers have to get quality Financial Statements that accomplish their intentions. The essence is that they use them to achieve their objectives either getting the desired level of profit or not recording losses for the business. The review results are that in the pre-IFRS the earnings management in use was the accrual-based earnings technique in which managers adjust assumptions and estimates the accounting system. In the post-IFRS, managers revert to real transactions based earnings management which involves the timing and structuring actual business activities to achieve a desired financial reporting result (for example, the timing of the sale of equipment that will result in a gain in a quarter in which extra earnings are needed, delaying major repairs, advertising, research, and development expenses write-off, and foregoing capital projects that positive net present value).

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the economic growth of Nigeria using a disaggregated data set over a seventeen years period from 1999 to 2016. Using ex post facto research method in a multivariate regression methodology, the paper sheds light on how government expenditure influences economic growth in Nigeria. Contrary to a priori expectation the result shows that only expenditure on health has a significant and positive effect on economic growth while the other disaggregated composites show largely positive but insignificant effect on economic growth in Nigeria within the study period.

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the economic growth of Nigeria using a disaggregated data set over a seventeen years period from 1999 to 2016. Using ex post facto research method in a multivariate regression methodology, the paper sheds light on how government expenditure influences economic growth in Nigeria. Contrary to a priori expectation the result shows that only expenditure on health has a significant and positive effect on economic growth while the other disaggregated composites show largely positive but insignificant effect on economic growth in Nigeria within the study period.