Abstract
Abstract This study investigates the extent to which customers’ patronage has affected, caused and associated with the earnings of deposit money banks in Nigeria in the present Covid-19 era. An ex-post-facto design was adopted leading to data sourced from annual reports and accounts of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. A simple regression model was applied in gauging the effect of Customers’ patronage on Profit before Tax, Granger Causality Test determined whether Profit before Tax was caused by Customers’ Patronage while Correlational Analysis confirmed the relationship between the focal variables. Simple regression result reveals that an increase in Total Deposit will significantly increase Profit Before Tax (87%) in the banking industry. Correlation analysis, which is the anchor tool, shows that Total Deposit has a strong relationship with Profit Before Tax of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. Lastly, Granger Causality Test reveals that Total Deposit Granger Causes Profit Before Tax in Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The findings imply that Total Deposit is a strong determinant of movements in the level of earnings of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. It was observed that a greater percentage of customers, even as the economy shrinks into recession after recession, prefer keeping their money with the bank as deposits expecting to earn interest on the investment. The study recommends that banks should strive, through enhanced packages, to mobilize deposits in order to enhance their earnings.
Highlights
The main essence of earnings by deposit money banks in Nigeria and beyond is to be able to absorb business operational losses, recognize the major stakeholders of the and still keep some money aside for investment and other survival strategies (FDIC, 2018)
The data analysis conducted shows that total deposits have a strong and positive relationship with profit before tax of deposit money banks in Nigeria
This is in line with the a priori expectations of the researcher since the major revenue income of deposit money banks is interest income which flows naturally from facilities made available to customers from accumulated deposits
Summary
The main essence of earnings by deposit money banks in Nigeria and beyond is to be able to absorb business operational losses, recognize the major stakeholders of the and still keep some money aside for investment and other survival strategies (FDIC, 2018). They do this through the channeling of financial resources from individual and corporate depositors to the productive sectors through investors in a continuous fashion This function is executed more comfortably when the banks successfully generate earnings in surplus of operational and administrative costs (Ongore & Kusa, 2013). This explains the need for deposit money banks to adopt cost reduction and other survival strategies in other to stay profitable if they must be alive to their responsibilities of intermediation.
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