THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING REPORTING ON THE MANAGEMENT OF A BUSINESS (A CASE STUDY OF EMENITE LTD)

68 PAGES (9102 WORDS) Accounting Project
ABSTRACT
Effort is made to access the effect of formal accounting reporting on the management of  a business financial accounting covers those activities related to the preparation of certain reports which are known as financial statements. These statement report the financial status of a firm at a particular time. The firms activities and resulting profit/losses during the most recent period and the flow of resources occurring within the firm during the same period.
I draw my research from the work of many authors. Such work done have included textbooks in all forms, magazine and Encyclopedias.
Apart from extensive use of literature, other method of research include (a) interview with businessmen. (b) Questionnaires have been designed and distributed to some businessmen (especially at trade fair). The questionnaires have been designed for officers  in management cadre in public and private companies, shareholders, staff, partners and owners in sole proprietorship  
 
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title pageii
Approval pageiii
Dedicationiv
Acknowledgementv
Abstractvi
Table of contentvii

CHAPTER ONE
1.0Introduction1
1.1Statement of problem3
1.2Purpose of the study3
1.3Significant of the study4
1.4Statement of Hypothesis5
1.5Scope of the study6
1.6Limitation of the study7
1.7Definition of terms.8

CHAPTER TWO
2.0Review of Related Literature11
2.1Accounting as a language of business11
2.2Users of accounting information13
2.3Characteristics of good information17
2.4Management of information19
2.5Basic accounting concept25
2.6The financial accounting branch25
2.7Other accounting branches.27

CHAPTER THREE
3.0Research design and methodology30
3.1Sources of data31
3.2Sample Size32
3.3Method of investigation 32

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0Data presentation and analysis.36
4.1Data presentation and analysis.36
4.2Test of hypothesis.43

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0Summary of findings, conclusion and recommendation.50
5.1Findings50
5.2Conclusion51
5.3Recommendation53
Bibliography55
Appendix57