THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON DECISION MAKING (A CASE STUDY OF ANAMMCO LTD)

93 PAGES (10197 WORDS) Accounting Project
ABSTRACT
Accounting generally involves the process of identifying, measuring communicating economic information to permit informed judgments and decisions of users of the information’s.

In other words, accounting is concerned with providing information which will help decision makers to make decisions. To enforce credibility, and utility of the information, the decision making process established concepts, principles, standard and legal requirements are strictly followed in order to translate physical facts into money value and ensures that all types of reports are integrated and prepared on consistent basis.

The information provided by financial statement, cash flow, variance analysis, managerial costing and control are invaluable to achieve objectives of the various interested groups. In spite of all the arrays of accounting tools at our physical, organizations still trouble down the drain.

To this end, the relevance, timeliness, accuracy, consciousness and clarity of the information and modes of presentations of the users were examined.

It is the objective of the researcher to highlight more vividly the invaluable importance of all these accounting tools and techniques in the decision-making process organization to better equip users of the job ahead.

These researcher’s believe would help significantly in reviewing our economy.
However, during the course of the research discovered that proper and enough accounting information were being generated and applied substantially in organization studied such as ANAMMCO in decision making.
Hence, it was concluded that the problems of the economy lies elsewhere other than insufficient generation and application of accounting information in decision making process in organization.

Based on the findings and conclusions the researcher recommend for further research into the other variables that might be contributing to out economy disorder. Therefore, the project was broken down into five chapters as indicated in the table of contents.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover page
Title page
Approval page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Table of contents
List of tables
Abstracts

Chapter one
1.0Introduction
1.1Background of the study
1.2Statement of the problem
1.3Purpose of the study
1.4Scope and delimitation of the study
1.5Research questions
1.6Statement of hypothesis
1.7Significance of the study
1.8Definition of terms

Chapter two
2.0Literature review
2.1Historical background
2.2Nature and objective of accounting information
2.3The value of information
2.4Characteristics of accounting information
2.5Users of accounting information
2.6Kinds of accounting information and tools for decision making
2.7Summaries of literature review

CHAPTER THREE
3.0Methodology
3.1Research design
3.2Area of study
3.3Population of the study
3.4Sample and sampling procedure
3.5Instrument for data collection
3.6Validation of the instrument
3.7Reliability of the instrument
3.8Method of data collection
3.9Method of data analysis

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0Data presentation and results
4.1Testing of hypothesis

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0Summary of findings, conclusions and recommendation
5.1Summary of findings
5.2Discussion of findings
5.3Recommendations
5.4Conclusions
5.5Implication of the studies
5.6Suggestion for further studies
5.7Limitation of the study
References
Appendix