Financial literacy and SME firm performance
The performance of the SME firm was viewed along the full proportions of financial, strategic and structural development. The socioeconomic function performed by SMEs is widely known in developing and emerging countries. But, in recent times, developing and developed nations have become more and...
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| description | The performance of the SME firm was viewed along the full proportions of financial,
strategic and structural development. The socioeconomic function performed by SMEs is
widely known in developing and emerging countries. But, in recent times, developing and
developed nations have become more and more concerned about the level of financial literacy
of the entrepreneur. This has emanated from peculiar to declining public and private to
support systems and wide-ranging developments in the financial marketplace. Concern was
also intensified by the challenging faced by the SME firm in financial context aided by the
recognition that dearth of financial literacy has been one of the many elements responsible for
lacks proper knowledge or information about financial decision making and that these
decisions could, in turn, have tremendous unexpected consequences. Subsequently, financial
literacy is now globally recognized as a major factor of economic and financial stability and
development of SMEs for performance. A series of tangible trends underpin the growing
worldwide interest in financial literacy as a major life skill, thus, this study set to review the
influence of financial literacy on the performance of the SMEs from Nigeria’s context. The
study will serve as an information because that will promote and orient SMEs firm
performance towards financial awareness, knowledge and perceive attitude. Also, the applied
significant framework developed will assist SMEs firm owners and policy makers to identify
the importance of financial literacy. |
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| spelling | unimas-177542022-02-04T07:39:12Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17754/ Financial literacy and SME firm performance Eniola, Anthony A. Harry, Entebang Ley, Kyra Sy Law HG Finance The performance of the SME firm was viewed along the full proportions of financial, strategic and structural development. The socioeconomic function performed by SMEs is widely known in developing and emerging countries. But, in recent times, developing and developed nations have become more and more concerned about the level of financial literacy of the entrepreneur. This has emanated from peculiar to declining public and private to support systems and wide-ranging developments in the financial marketplace. Concern was also intensified by the challenging faced by the SME firm in financial context aided by the recognition that dearth of financial literacy has been one of the many elements responsible for lacks proper knowledge or information about financial decision making and that these decisions could, in turn, have tremendous unexpected consequences. Subsequently, financial literacy is now globally recognized as a major factor of economic and financial stability and development of SMEs for performance. A series of tangible trends underpin the growing worldwide interest in financial literacy as a major life skill, thus, this study set to review the influence of financial literacy on the performance of the SMEs from Nigeria’s context. The study will serve as an information because that will promote and orient SMEs firm performance towards financial awareness, knowledge and perceive attitude. Also, the applied significant framework developed will assist SMEs firm owners and policy makers to identify the importance of financial literacy. International Journal of Research Studies in Management 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17754/1/Eniola.pdf Eniola, Anthony A. and Harry, Entebang and Ley, Kyra Sy Law (2016) Financial literacy and SME firm performance. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 5 (1). pp. 31-43. ISSN 2243-7789 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284434148 DOI: 10.5861/ijrsm.2015.1304 |
| spellingShingle | HG Finance Eniola, Anthony A. Harry, Entebang Ley, Kyra Sy Law Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title | Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title_full | Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title_fullStr | Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title_short | Financial literacy and SME firm performance |
| title_sort | financial literacy and sme firm performance |
| topic | HG Finance |
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