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Item Gender and Accounting Education in Ghana(University of Ghana, 2016-07) Aboagye, A.A.The study seeks to examine gender issues associated with accounting and business education in Ghana. Specifically, it seeks to investigate the gender disparities that exists in higher educational institutions providing accounting education. It also determines the growth or decline in accounting majors in Ghana. The study further investigates the reasons for students’ choice of an accounting major, the creative levels as well as personality traits of accounting majors. The Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Holland trait theory are adopted to explain the choice of an accounting major. Additionally, the Gough (1979) inherent creativity scale is used to ascertain the creativity levels of students. A mixed method approach is used. The research strategy is a survey and data is gathered using questionnaires. The sample for the study is 1700 accounting students and seven registrars in seven major universities in Ghana. The usable responses from the questionnaires are 1200 for students and 4 for registrars. The results show that there are gender disparities in favour of males in both accounting and business education. Comparatively, the average Gender Parity Index for the nine-year period is 0.50 and 0.59 for accounting and business studies respectively. The findings indicate a decline in the number of accounting majors. Factors such as job opportunities, job security, broad exposure to business, high future earnings, business people they know, parents, teachers, grades and mathematical background greatly influence students’ choice of an accounting major. The creativity levels of Accounting majors are low. The dominant personality traits possessed by the accounting majors are social according to the Holland theory. The most important referents for males and females are business people they know and parents respectively. This study adds to literature and also suggest the need for gender policies to be instituted in universities offering accounting education. It also suggests the use of better strategies and teaching methods to attract more students into the accounting profession and also boost the creativity levels of studItem Information and other Factors Influencing Treatment Expenditures Incurred by Buruli Ulcer Sufferers in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality of Ghana(2015) Anaman, K.A.; Aboagye, A.A.We analyzed the factors influencing the treatment expenditures incurred by sufferers of Buruli ulcer disease in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana using a random sampling survey. The factors analyzed in the study included the information about the disease available to the sufferers related to time and the stage of the disease that sufferers reported the disease to health clinics and hospitals. We showed that the factors that significantly influenced treatment expenditures included the income of the sufferer, early reporting of the disease to clinics, and the employment status of the sufferer. Higher-income people spent more money to treat the disease than those with lower incomes. People who were unemployed spent relatively money in treati ng the disease as compared to those who were employed. With increasing incomes, sufferers who reported the disease to clinics in the early stages of the disease, incurred relatively less costs compared to those of similar high -income group of sufferers who reported the disease to clinics at the ulcerative stage of the disease (PDF) Information and other Factors Influencing Treatment Expenditures Incurred by Buruli Ulcer Sufferers in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality of Ghana. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282612570_Information_and_other_Factors_Influencing_Treatment_Expenditures_Incurred_by_Buruli_Ulcer_Sufferers_in_the_Nsawam-Adoagyiri_Municipality_of_Ghana [accessed Oct 24 2018].Item Mobilisation of Internally Generated Funds in the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly; Realities, Prospects and Challenges.(University Of Ghana, 2014-07) Aboagye, A.A.Decentralisation comes with concepts such as fiscal decentralisation and autonomy which enjoins local governments to generate revenue from internal sources. The local government reforms in the 1990s and its subsequent Local Government Act in 1993 provide for a number of instruments to empower local governments in their local revenue generation. The internally generated funds (IGFs) are the own-sourced revenue of local governments in the country. It is revenue generated, accessed and utilised by district assemblies. However, the biggest challenge facing district assemblies is their inability to mobilise IGFs for local development. This study examines the realities in IGF mobilisation, the challenges confronting the municipal assembly in their local revenue generation and other potential local sources of revenue that can be utilised by the Assembly. The case study approach was used to study IGF mobilisation in the Awutu Senya East Municipality, which is one of the fastest growing municipalities in Ghana. Data were collected through in-depth interviews of people with knowledge of the subject area within the municipality. The study found out the assembly to an extent has been reaching its targets for IGF, but it was found out that these targets were not realistic considering the revenue potential of the municipality. It was also found that the assembly faces a number of challenges in its revenue generation, key among them include the leakages in the revenue system, absence of well documented data on revenue sources and a host of others. Possible solutions to these problems have been provided. The study also came out with viable local sources of revenue that is currently not being utilised by the assembly. These sources are to enable the assembly boost IGF generation in the municipality. The study acknowledged that, the inconsistencies in the central government transfers to the assembly coupled with the unrealistic targets set by the assembly in its IGF generation, has resulted in the inability of the assembly to expand the provision of services to the community. Revenues generated from local sources are used to finance the administration of the assembly resulting in their inability to provide the needed services within the municipality. The study therefore made suggestions geared towards the effective mobilisation of IGFs to enable the assembly generate realistic revenues from local sources to finance developmental projects in the municipality.Item The Prevalence of Buruli Ulcer and its Effect on Human Development in Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality, Eastern Region(University of Ghana, 2015-03) Aboagye, A.A.; Kwabena, A.A.; Anaman, K.A.; University Of Ghana, College of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, Department of Geography and Resource DevelopmentThe objectives of the study were to determine the perceived causes of Buruli ulcer disease from both sufferers and non-suffers in Nsawam Adoagyiri municipality, to analyse how the disease affected human health in the area, and to elicit responses, from both sufferers and nonsufferers, on measures that could be taken to reduce human suffering and impacts from the disease. A simple random sampling method of data collection was used to select 193 respondents from the area, consisting of sufferers and non-sufferers of the disease, as well as medical personnel offering care to patients at the government health centres. Sufferers indicated that drinking and using contaminated water for domestic household activities was the most important cause of the disease.Non-sufferers, who were not medical personnel, suggested that the most important cause of the disease was through contraction from the environment due to swampy nature of the area and the possibility of worms or insects being the carrier or the mode of spread of the disease. However, non-sufferers, who were medical personnel, asserted that the most important cause of the disease was poor personal hygienic practices. In terms of health and welfare effects, the majority of sufferers indicated that the disease had limited their ability to perform tasks in their community.The main factor influencing treatment expenditures was the income of the sufferer with richer sufferers spending more on expenditures to treat the disease. Another significant factor was the unemployment status of the sufferer with unemployed people spending less than employed people to treat the disease. Several suggestions were provided by the three groups of respondents to government to deal with the disease. The most important suggestions to the government included the provision of medicine to treat the disease, information to prevent people from acquiring the disease, and encouragement of early reporting of symptoms of the disease at medical centres for treatment.