Nexus between small and medium-sized enterprise budgeting skills and loan repayment in South Africa

  • 185 Views
  • 35 Downloads

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This study’s purpose is to assess the influence of small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) budgeting skills on loan repayment in South Africa. The quantitative research approach was selected as the appropriate methodology for this study, while the purposive sampling approach was selected as the appropriate way to select participants for this study. The primary data for this study came from respondents who were business owners of SMEs in the retail, hardware, construction, and manufacturing industries. SPSS was used to analyze the acquired data. A total of 380 research questionnaires were distributed, and there were 375 that were returned for analysis (which gives a response rate of 99%). Both a regression analysis and a correlation analysis using Pearson’s method were carried out. Pearson’s correlation coefficient revealed a positive and significant relationship between SMEs’ budgeting skills and loan repayment at the level of r =.250, p < 0.0005. These results were supported by the finding that there is a positive and significant association between these two factors. According to the findings of the study, it is recommended that financial providers educate their SMEs on how to prepare various types of budgets, how to follow up and compare their financial objectives to their performance, and that financial institutions and government organizations should assist SMEs with budgeting skills to decrease SME loan defaults.

view full abstract hide full abstract
    • Table 1. Correlation between SME budgeting skills and loan repayment
    • Table 2. Linear regression SME budgeting skills and loan repayment
    • Conceptualization
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Data curation
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Formal Analysis
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Investigation
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Methodology
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Project administration
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Supervision
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Validation
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Visualization
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Writing – original draft
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi
    • Writing – review & editing
      Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi