The Effect of Overhead Cost on The Selling Price of a Product (A Case Study Of Unilever Plc, Warri Branch)

ABSTRACT

          Accounting profession has been regarded as the profession for the people of integrity and objective. The public tend to rely and put their confidence in any business that have the impact of an accounting professional. The public feel secured in dealing prepared with any business entity that has its books prepared and audited by an accounting professional. These trust and confidence seems to be getting evaded based on the failure that still happen to some of these business entities despite the fact that their books are being examined periodically by these professional. This project is an attempt to find out where exactly the problems lies, the level of the auditors involvement in the collapse of the business, the integrity issue of the auditor and what could be done to further strengthen the inferences of ethical standards of the practitioners especially the sole practitioners so, as to ensure the survival of business entities.         

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title                                                                                                   i

Approval                                                                                          ii

Dedication                                                                                       iii

Acknowledgement                                                                            iv

Abstract                                                                                           v

Table of contents                                                                             vi

Chapter One - Introduction

1.1    Background of the study                                                      1

1.2    Statement of problem                                                            3

1.3    Objective of the study                                                            4

1.4    Research Question                                                               4

1.5    Research Hypothesis                                                            4

1.6    Significance of the study                                                        5

1.7    Scope of the Study                                                                6

1.8    Limitation of the Study                                                           7

1.9    Definition of Terms                                                                 8

Chapter Two - Literature review

2.1    Introduction                                                                             9

2.2    Standard Cost System                                                          10

Chapter Three - Research methodology

3.1    Research design                                                                    13

3.2    Population of the Study                                                         13

3.3    Sample Size and Sample Techniques                                 14

3.4    Research Instrument                                                             14

3.5    Validation of Instrument                                                        14

3.6    Reliability of the Instrument                                                  15

3.7    Method of Data Analysis                                                       15

3.8    Validity of the Instrument                                                      15

3.9    Method of Data Collection                                                    16

Chapter Four - Data Analysis and Presentation

4.1    Introduction                                                                            23

4.1    Data Analysis                                                                         23

4.3    Test of Hypothesis                                                                27

Chapter Five - Summary conclusion and recommendation

5.1    Summary                                                                               35

5.2    Conclusion                                                                             36

5.3    Recommendation                                                                   37

References                                                                             38

Appendix                                                                                 39

          Questionnaire                                                                        40