DEDICATION IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V
LIST OF TABLES VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS VII
ABSTRACT IX
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
ACCOUNTING SYSTEM 13
CHAPTER THREE
The need for keeping prompt and accurate record of transaction in the government services of the receipt and disbursement of public fund cannot be over-emphasized. This is why the officers of the Accountant –General of the federation in whose hands this duty falls, has over the years been engaged in the determination of procedure to achieve an optimum effectiveness of these recordings.
The management of public fund regimes an appropriate and comprehensive accounting system. This has necessitated the formulation of a number of control measure to ensure accountability and probity right from the budget proposal level to the actual implementation.
As government spending grows, there is the need to do more than our tailing spending within appropriate amount as it is entirely possible to expend money without reaping the reward for such scientific. Thus, the need to evaluate the benefits and manage the costs become more essential. This is the enrolment of accounting, and its efficiency and effectiveness manifests the impact on the governed.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The management and control of the public fund is the heart of government administration. This calls for the need for an acceptable accounting system that will comprehensively prefer solution to the accounting needs of the government on public funds is governed by the financial (control and management). Act of 1958 A to E into section 154, dealing with the operation of the consideration Amendment of 1957 which inserted sub –154 A to E into section 154, dealing operation of the constrained therein formed the based of the financial Act which were replicated with slight changes in the 1979 and 1989 constitution, Higher to , government accounting is regulated by section 129 –145 of the constitution, the laws enacted by government in power, the financial control and management Act 1958, by decree and acts enacted from time to time.
The management and control of the public fund is invested on the federal ministry of finance and this rests on the shoulders of the Treasury now referred to as the office of the Accountant General.
In the treasury its self, functions and duties are streamlined to a set of guide. This is because government accounting is based strictly on cash”.
The expenditure and receipts for the year are balanced and closed for the year and there is no transfer to the next period.
The financial regulation, treasury accounting manual, and regulation. That guide the treasury in the management and control of the public find of the government whose objective is service.
This study is directed to a division of the treasury the federal pay office, Enugu. It will be concerned mainly with the duties and functions of the office, the effectiveness of the accounting as it relates to the goals of the
Government which is service. The study will also determines to what extent the principles, rules and regulation governing. The government accounting system is being utilized and its effect on the general public.
The federal pay office, Enugu which is the main focus of this work has the following as its main general duties:
Effectiveness of these duties are enhanced through the establishment of internal check system in its operation to minimize fraud and loss of funds.
The federal pay officer is the head of this office. Going by the provision of financial regulation (ff) section 104 (II), the officer “ is entrusted with the receipts, custody and disbursement of public money and is required to keep one of the recognized cash books, the transaction in which are subsequence embodies in the accounts rendered by the accountant – general of the federation”.
The office is segmented into eight (8) sections top facilitate efficient and effective performance of duties as stated above.
There has always been the call for proper accounting of the public fund. The treasury being the custodian of the public fund, has as its motor: accountability probity and transparency.
The federal; pay office, Enugu, being part of treasury is banqueted with the same number of problems that hinder the effectiveness of the established accounting system.
This study is focused on the following identified problems:
This research work is set to prefer a solution to these constraints that militate against the effectiveness of the established accounting system and its subsequent impact.
In the light of the statements in 1.2, above, this research aims at ascertaining the impact and significance of government accounting system and then identify the other courses of its ineffectiveness or other wise in the federal pay office, Enugu.
The study also aims at analyzing the following:
In view of the points raised in the statement of problems above the following research questions were formulated.
As a guide to determining the effectiveness and impact of the above, the following hypothetical statements are necessary.
1. QUALIFICATION
H0 : The officers manning the key results area are not qualified.
Hi: The officers manning the key result area are really qualified to do the job.
2. IMPLEMETATION
H0 : The federal pay office do not enforce the implementation of the rules.
Hi: The federal pay office ensures that the rules are properly implemented.
3. COMPLIANCE
H0: The ministries/department accountable to the federal pay office do not comply with the guide as provided in the financial regulation.
4. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED:
H0: Accounting officers do not encounter any form of difficulty in the course of their duties.
Hi: Accounting officers normally encounter problems in the course of their duties.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY;
The scope of this study is how the federal pay office, Enugu, as a division of the treasury, discharged it duties.
The main focus is on its compliance to the treasury
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