CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IN NON-PROFIT MAKING ORGANIZATION IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Non-profit making in its simplest form includes the public sectors, ecclesiastical i.e. churches and mosques, clubs e.t.c established to exhibit. A variety of social economic political and loyal characteristics; it is an organization which cater for services of the general public and a whole and thus with no view of making profit. In this sense it has different objectives and is financed in different ways.

The basic background is to impact the knowledge that no – profiting making organization exist and that they have accounts that they keep among the accounts kept by non – profit, expenditure account, wages account, statement of recurrent revenue, statement of recurrent expenditure to mention but of few public sector. Accounting is made up of many independence departments which are entitles on their own such like the case of the public limited liabilities company which is a legal entity.

The purpose of accounting is non-profit making organization includes the followings to demonstrate the proprietary of transaction and their conformity with the established rules (i.e rules establishing non-profit making organization) to give evidences of accountability or stewardship within the system to provide useful information for good control and efficient management.

1.2  STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The problem encountered in the accounting system of non – profit making organization with reference to this research work is as follows:-

The data i.e payment voucher, sales voucher receipt and the likes are delayed in computation and this hinders the progress of the system.

Some of staff is in experienced; they do not even understand reason for operating or keeping the account system.

The corporation cannot increases its water rate because its fixed by the