BUDGETING AND BUDGETARY CONTROL AS TOOLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT PARASTATALS

(A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION)

By

OKPUGOH EJIME ARTHUR

Presented To

Department of Accountancy

ABSTRACT
This research work was focused on investigation on the use of budgeting and budgetary control as tools for accountability in government
Parastatals. (A case study of Enugu State Housing Development Corporation). Budgetary control is a quantitative expression of plane of action prepare in advance of period to which it relate. The organization is face with the problem of lack of budgeting while planning and controlling their activities. The objective of the study is to determine if budgeting and budgetary control affect the quality of services delivery in government parastatals. The research also aims at determining if budgetary control contributes to the improvement of management efficiency and high productivity. Data were collected from primary and secondary source. Secondary source of data were collected from textbooks, periodic articles and journals. Questions were distributed as well as personal interviews with functional and departmental heads were conducted. The sample size of 60 were used and was chosen among the number of department / section using Bowleys proportional allocation formula Data were analyzed using table and simple percentage, hypothesis were tested using chi-square statistics. We discovered among other things that budgeting and budgetary control affect the quality of service delivery in government parastatals. It was also revealed that budgeting and budgetary control contributes to the improvement of management efficiency and high productivity. In line with the above, we recommend among other things that the budget plan and preparation should be a corporate duty of the unit heads with head of department in the corporation, improving legislation, realistic budget target. Adherence in the budgeting provision should be practiced by top management

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Approval page - - - - - ….. - …..……i

Dedication . - - - - …….. - - - ..… - …ii

Acknowledgement. - - - - - … - …… - …iii.

Abstract. - - - - …….. - - …….… - - - ..…iv

Table of contents. - - - - ……..…… - - - - - - v

CHAPTER ONE:

1.0 Key words / introduction. - - - - - - - …1

1.1 Background of the study . - - …… - - - - ……1

1.2 Statement of problem. - - - - - ……. - …4

1.3 Objective of the study. - - - - - - - 4

1.4 Research Question. - - - - - - ……..……5

1.5 Hypotheses of the study. - - - - - . - ……5

1.6 Significant of the study. - - - - - .. - ……6

1.7 Scope and limitation . - - - - - - ……..…7

1.8 Definition of terms . - - - - - - - …8

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Review of related literature . - - - - . - - 10

2.1 Budgeting and budgets. - - - - . - - ……10

2.2 Current literature on theories models. - - - - .……..19

2.3 Empirical study. - - - …….…….……..21

2.4 Features of budgets.… - - .……..23

2.5 Budgetary control. - …… - - ..….……..37

v

2.6 Innovation in the area of budget zero - based budgeting (Z.B.Z)…….……42

2.7 Advantage of zero based budgeting. - - - - ……..44

2.8 Disadvantage of zero based budgeting . - … ……..44

CHAPTER THREE:

3.0 Research Methodology. - - … - ..…..48

3.1 Research design. - - - - ..……..48

3.2 Source of data . - - … - - - .

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