Abstract: Performance of firms concerns more researchers since a country's economy is cushioned by better performing firms. Researchers across the world have attempted to investigate the linkage existing between performance and governance at the corporate level with evidence empirically supporting performance as a result of how firms are governed at corporate level. This study examined companies listed at NSE in the context of Kenya with argument that frauds of accounting nature among firms will well managed if governance at corporate level is effective because lack of effective governance mechanisms can lead to higher levels of frauds especially in accounting. The study majorly was guided by agency theory and Anglo-US model of Corporate Governance. A survey which.....
Key words:Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, Nairobi Securities Exchange
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