The Usefulness of Accounting Report in a Public Company

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page

Approval page

Dedication

Acknowledgement

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE

1.0      Introduction

1.1 Background of the study

1.2 Objective of the study

1.3 Statement of the problem

1.4 Scope/Limitation of the study

1.5 Significance of the study

1.6 Definition of the terms

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature review

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Purpose of accounting reports

2.3 Objective of financial statement

2.4 Parties interested in financial statement

2.5 Constituent of accounting report

2.6 Method of interpretation or analysis of accounting report

2.6.1 Ratio analysis

2.6.2 Type of ratio

2.7 Application of accounting ratio

2.8 Significant of accounting ratio

2.9 Limitation of ratio analysis

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 Research methodology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Brief Historical background of Guinness Nigeria Plc

3.3 Questionnaire design and assumptions

3.4 Research instrument and techniques

3.5 Conduct of the field work

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 Data presentation and analysis of findings

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Analysis

4.3 Test of Hypothesis

4.4 Interpretation of findings

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Summary

5.3 Recommendation

5.4 Bibliography

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 An account report consists of items that are contained in the annual report of a company, these reports are also termed “financial statements” these reports are necessary and compulsory in any business organization, they show the true and fair position of such company at a given period of time. They are usually on annual basis and they provide information to the user of the report to give an informed judgement about a company. these report include the profit and loss account, which show the profit that is and for whole year before and after tax and also a profit is to be retained in the business, they also include the balance sheet which is the statement of asset and liabilities included in the financial report are: