TY - JOUR PB - Elsevier JF - Data in Brief ID - eprints14321 Y1 - 2019/// TI - Data on chief financial officer attributes and risk management strategies for Nigerian listed financial institutions A1 - Adegboye, Alex A1 - Ojeka, Stephen A1 - Adegboye, Kofo A1 - Alabi, Oluwaseyi A1 - Afolabi, Mosinmileoluwa A1 - Iyoha, F. O. SN - 2352-3409 UR - http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/ KW - Data CFO characteristics Enterprise risk management Firm characteristics N2 - This data article is related to the research article ?Chief Financial Officer Roles and Enterprise Risk Management: An Empirical Based Study? Ojeka et al. (2019). The study explores the impact of CFO roles on the execution of ERM strategies sampled with Nigerian financial institutions for the period of 2013e2017. The study develops three distinct indexes representing the CFO roles namely CFO power, CFO experience and CFO knowledge via principal component factoring. The study also measures ERMcomponents simultaneously to capture the extent of sophisticated ERMsystem. This article presents the data collected from 33 financial companies listed on Nigerian stock exchange. The datawere extracted fromthe annual reports of the sample companies using quantitative content analysis about Enterprise Risk Management, Chief Finance Officer Roles and Firm level data. AV - public ER -