TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE                                                                                     I

CERTIFICATION                                                                              II

DEDICATION                                                                                    III

AKNOWLEDGEMENT                                                                    IV

CHAPTER ONE

1.1           INTRODUCTION                                                                     1

1.2           STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM                                       2

1.3           SOURCES OF FUNDS                                                             3

1.4           AIM AND OBJECTIVE                                                           4

1.5           SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY                      4

1.6           SIGNIUFICANCE OF THE STUDY                                      5

CHAPTER TWO

2.0           REVIEW OF LITERATURE                                                     6

2.1           HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD        6

2.2           PUBLISHED ACCOUNTING STANDARD TO DATA      8

2.3           DISCLOSURE SUMMARY                                                    10

CHAPTER THREE

3.0           RESEARCH METHODOLOGY                                              16

3.1           THE POPULATION                                                                  16

3.2           DATA COLLECTION                                                              16

3.3           QUESTIONNAIRE METHOD                                                18

3.4           POPULATION SIZE AND SAMPLE                                     19

3.5           DATA PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION    21

3.6           LIMITATION OF THE STUDY                                              23

 

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1           HISTORY OF SMITH-WINE BEECHAM PLC AND ITS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE                                      24

4.2           ACCOUNTING POLICIES                                            26

4.3           DEPRECIATION ACCOUNTING                                          29

4.4           ISSUE OF REVENUE                                                              30

4.5           ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT PROBLEM              32

CHAPTER FIVE

5.1           SUMMARY OF CONCLUSION                                             54

5.2           RECOMMENDATION                                                             57

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                               61

 

 

CHAPTER ONE

1.1           INTRODUCTION

          The government has to live and perform its duties to the native as a result there must be a means of live hood called money.

          Therefore, the simple meaning of accounting is an act of recording, classifying, summarizing and interpreting of financial records. It has always been said that money is the life wire of any state. That is accounting is prominent to the survivor of any Native, the government system is to enable power or delegate the power to the rule from rule and three is a three arms of government i.e the legislature, judiciary and executive of a government system and whereas we have three types of government in any nation i.e federal government which is president, vice president and all ministers and secretary to the federal government, state government in this we have the executive governor of the state, the vice governor, the secretary to the state governor and all commissioners we still have local government chairman, vice chairman and secretary.

1.2           STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

          It is obvious that inadequate revenue has been one of the problem of the government in discharging its function smoothly. It is justifiable that most of the government have not proved to be quite successful in discharging their function effectively and efficiently.

          Also, the poor attitude toward the payment of tax which is one of the large source of revenue from the payers also contributed negatively to the government generate revenue.

          The government establishment also affected the revenue of generated either directly or indirectly recently.

          How does government establishment or accounting system affect the revenue generation?

          What role the government plays on accounting system.

1.3           SOURCES OF FINDINGS

1.                Statutory allocation from the federation account (i.e 245 of federation account)

2.                personnel income tax

3.                Other state taxes

4.                License and fines

5.                Fees

6.                earning and sales

7.                Rent on government properties

8.                Interest and repayment

9.                reimbursement. These are refund for services rendered to local government, public corporation and other statutory bodies by state officers.

SOURCES OF FUND THE THEORY OF REVENUE

          This deal with various sources through which government generate funds to finance its activities.

          It also deals with the comparative advantages of each of the sources revenue.

1.4           AIMS AND OBJECTIVE

          Ordinarily, the purpose of accounting system is to provide fund to government at all level for effective governance.

          However, the aims and objectives of the study is to educate people on how accounting system being establishment, actually kwara state ministry off finance is the ministerial department in charge of the public finding accounting system in kwara state.

1.5           SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

          The scope of the study is trying to partial how revenue is been generated by the government establishment and that effect of accounting system.

          The research work may be restricted to its case study only. i.e kwara state military of finance and not to any other government agency.

          However, its limitation include inadequate time to thoroughly carry out a very lengthy research work, financial constraints are the assumption that all information given from the said organization are true. The unwillingness as they are being targeted as very confidential.

1.6           SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

          “The findings from the study will enable both laymen and potential users the government accounting to know the sources of accounting system and the effect of recent of the government establishment”. This is particularly through the account of ministry of finance.

          The sources of revenue shall be constraint in order that it might conform to the scope of this research work, the state ministry of finance kwara state in particular.