MANAGEMENT BENEFITS OF ACCOUNTING PROFESSION TO BUSINESS ORGANIZATION

By

NWAIWU PATRICIA .C

Presented To

Department of Accountancy

ABSTRACT

This research project management benefits of accounting profession to business organization is aimed at x-raying the various ways the profession has helped the management in their plans since 1970 to date.

The research within the limitation of the study will make a proper investigation on how the profession has contributed to the growth of our infant organization and how it has helped them in making a national decision in their day to day business operations. How it has also helped them in their surplus income in different investment in order to maximize their shareholder wealth.

The research shall find out that this profession has helped the nation in mapping out her policies and in proper implementation of those policies mapped out. This study will show us how the profession helped the management, entrepreneurs in making use of the available resources to embark in different investment by exposing them in different alternative course of actions. In the view, the study will x-ray the area where the professions has failed the economy of the organization. The study will suggested and recommended the possible ways to remedy the unfavorable situation if any.

They research will equally present in more comprehensive manner the findings an recommendation which should be useful to any research should be useful to any researcher making further study in the topic.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Approval page

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of contents

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Statement of the Problem

1.2 Objectives of the Study

1.3 Scope of the study

1.4 Significance of the study

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Definition of Accounting

2.1 Origin of Accounting

2.2 The benefits of Accounting Profession for

Business organization

2.3 Contribution of professional bodies to management

Business organization

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 Summary of Findings, Conclusion and Recommendation

3.1 Findings

3.2 Conclusion

3.3 Recommendation

Bibliography

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Purpose and nature of accounting, the underlying purpose of accounting is to provide financial information about business enterprise. The financial information provided by an accounting system is needed by the management decision making, to help them plan and control the activities of business organization, financial information is also needed by outsider that is creditors, potential investors, the government and public who were supplied money to the business or who have other interest in business that will be served with information about the financial position and operating results.

In order to provide useful financial information about a business enterprise, we need some means of keeping back of the daily business activities and the summarizing results in accounting system.

The first function of accounting system is to creat a systematical record of the daily business activity, in the term of money for instance, goods and services are purchase and sold, credit extended to customers, debts are incurred, and services and cash is received and paid out.

These transactions are typical of business events which can be expressed in monetary terms and must be enter in accounting record. The more expression of an intent to but goods or services in the future does not represent a transaction.

Transaction refers to a completed action rather than to an expected or possible future action. The recording of a transaction may be performed in many ways that is by writing with pen or pencil, by printing with mechanical or electronic equipment or by punching holes or making magnetic impressions on cards or tape. Not all business events can be measure and describe in monetary terms.

Therefore, it is not shown in the accounting records the appointment of a new chief executive, the signing of a labour contract, or the appearance of a new competing business.

In addition to compiling a narrative record of events as they occur, transactions and events into related group or categories are classified.

The classification enables as to report a mass of detail into compact and lessable firm. For instance grouping all transactions in which cash is received or paid out, a logic step in developing useful information about the cash position of a business enterprise.

To organize accounting information in a useful form the classified information is summarized into accounting reports designed to meet the information needs of the decision makers.

These three steps recording, classifying and summarizing are the means of creating accounting information.

It also involves communicating this information to an interested parties and interpreting as it relates to specific business decisions.

1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The statement of the researcher problem serves to relied upon the information in the title of the study. This study is concerned with the examination of the management benefits of accounting profession in business organization. "The problem could be categorized as the concept of management business organization and the benefits financial accounting plays to this concept". This research project has two important parts, the questions and the answers to them.

This research also seeks to find out the extent of which the financial accounting has help management business organization by addressing them in the following.

1. Do the business organization keep any financial records?

2. What type of records to they keep?

3. Do the organization account for their stewardship?

4. Do the management employ the services of accountants in their organization.

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The aim of this research project is to address the following.

a. To discuss the concept of management business organization

b. To ascertain what services accountants are expected to perform and analyze in detail various ways they have contributed to the management.

c. To ascertain whether the accountants are living up to expectations, if not, suggest ways of making up the deficiencies for better performance in future.

d. To ascertain how far accounting profession has helped in business organization. The four objectives stated above are expected to enable the researcher take a proper records of the role played so far, by the accounting profession towards the management business organization which is the focus of this study.

1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This research project is concerned with the parts of this topic or problem that normally might be considered to be part of such. But of which this is because of limitation of time physical capacity or other reasons the researcher cannot include all. So the scope of the researcher is the management benefits of accounting profession to the business organization.

1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This refers to the important of this research to the management. The main purpose is every research is to provide knowledge and information that will bring about a better understanding of the management benefits of accounting profession to business will be able to know the extent to which the accounting profession has helped the organization in various activities. The researcher will also enable the organization to appraise the accounting technique in operation with a view to correcting any lapse which maybe evidence during the investigation process when completed this researcher, findings and recommendations will form a based to be relied upon by subsequent researchers who may wish to make further inequities into the system of the management benefits of accounting profession to business organization.