IFRS and Banks Performance in Nigeria

This book examined the impact of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) adoption on Financial Reporting of Banks in Nigeria. The study is based on the appraisal of IFRS compliance and Adoption. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. The primary data would be sourced via a questionnaire administered in a survey conducted on examining the convergence to IFRS in Nigeria Commercial Banks using Access bank Plc. as a case study while the secondary data collected from Annual Report of Access Banks Plc from 2007 to 2012 as well as journals, textbooks and newspapers. The result of the analysis showed that at there is significant relationship adoption of IFRS and financial reporting of banks in Nigeria and that there is significant relationship between IFRS and banks performance in Nigeria. At degree of freedom 2 and 5% level of significance, the X2table value is 5.99 while the calculated value is 6.380 and the F statistics computed value show a figure of 23.254 which is significant at 5% level of significant which leads to the rejection of the null hypotheses and the acceptance of the alternate hypotheses.

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Olawale Luqman Samuel holds a BSc from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. He is a Master student ofAccounting at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. He has published anumber of articles and working on many research papers. His research interests include; accounting standard, risk management, business finance, intellectual capital, etc.