HUMAN RESOURCE ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF QUOTED INSURANCE COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

The principal aim of our study was to examine the effect of human resource accounting (Human resource accounting disclosure Index, Training cost, Number of staff and Increment in staff salaries) on corporate financial performance (return on assets and return on equity) of insurance companies quoted on Nigeria Stock Exchange for the period 2012 to 2017. Secondary data of 12 quoted insurance companies were collected mostly from their website and the Nigeria Stock Exchange Port Harcourt office. A non-experimental causal (Ex post facto) research design was appropriately adopted to address the research objectives of the study. The lease square regression analysis, precisely the random effect model was used (with the aid of E-views 10) to empirically answer eight research questions raised in the study. The results showed that human resource accounting disclosure and training cost significantly affect Return on Asset and Return on Equity positively while Number of staff and increment in staff salaries has a statistically significant negative effect on Return on Asset. Based on these results, recommendations were given as follows among others, that: Insurance firms should do more in terms of building the culture of capacity building training, developing and motivating the personnel to put in their best for the financial growth of their organizations and enhancing their capacity to improve organizational performance and Insurance firms should increase their human resource accounting disclosure in other to increase stakeholders’ confidence in doing business with them thereby improving its performance.