Human Resources Accounting and Shareholders’ Wealth of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

The study examined relationship between human resources accounting and shareholders' wealth of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The data were collected from annual reports of the sixteen Deposit Money Banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange for period twelve years from 2006 to 2017.The study employed static panel data Random Effect Model to analyse the relationship between human resource accounting and shareholders ‘wealth of Money Deposit Banks in Nigeria .Return on assets ROE was used as proxy of shareholders ‘wealth while directors remuneration, salaries and wages, pension cost and training costs were used as the proxies of human resources accounting. The random effect result shows that all the variables have insignificant positive relationship with return to equity except pension that has insignificant negative relationship. This implies that none of the explanatory variables has significant impact on returns to equity. The overall result which is R Square reported that the value of 0.0045 and adjusted R value of .09315 which indicated the explanatory variables are insignificant to explained the dependent variable. The R Square value is extremely low indicating that the explanatory variables are not good fit measures for return on equity. This result too corroborates the random effect result that the variables of human resources are not significantly impacting the return on equity as a measure of Nigerian banks' shareholder ‘wealth. Based on the results of this study, therefore, the study concludes that almost all the regressors are capable of improving the human assets except pension of the staff. Afolalu Anthony Buyide | Ezeala George "Human Resources Accounting and Shareholders' Wealth of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2 , February 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49456.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/accounting-and-finance/49456/human-resources-accounting-and-shareholders'-wealth-of-deposit-money-banks-in-nigeria/afolalu-anthony-buyide