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The article examines the relation between working capital management and profitability for a sample of 66 Nigerian non-financial firms for the period 1997–2007. Trade credit policy and inventory policy are measured by number of days accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventories; and the cash conversion cycle (CCC) is used as a comprehensive measure of working capital management. The results suggest that firm’s profitability is reduced by lengthening the number of days accounts receivable, number of days of inventory and number of days accounts payable. The result shows that shortening the CCC improves the profitability of the firms.

This paper examined the relationship between changes in oil prices and stock market growth over the period 1981-2011 using vector error correction modeling approach. The results suggest a long run relationship between oil price, exchange rate and stock market growth. A unidirectional causality runs from oil price change to stock market development. The impulse response function shows that oil price has a temporary positive impact on stock market. The VDC shows that stock market development to be very much dependent on shock on oil price change.

This paper examines the long run and short run link between dividend payout policy and corporate performance of quoted companies in Nigeria over the period 2001–2018. The study employs data of 80 listed companies collected from the audited financial statements of the companies and the publication of Central Bank of Nigeria. Using Pooled Mean Group-Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach, the result shows that dividend policy negatively and statistically influence performance in the short run, while in the long run the effect is positive and significant.

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