THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE SCHEME IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF MOTOR INSURANCE DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD ENUGU.

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of the project is to design a software for insurance institutions. It studies the operations and concept of insurance companies. Insurance as a vital discipline, in the society deals with different security, policies and has a diverse relationship with other professional fields.

This project has been specially written and presented in a concise manger to cover the necessary back-ground information; to satisfy the needs of insurance institutions. It researched into the fundamental job operation of insurance, the data requirements, data manipulation, process on data, data requirements, data, data storage and retrieval, method of report generation are carefully analyzed and detailed findings are made a new computerized system are designed and implemented, the computerized system reduced the difficulties experienced in the old manual system. It is easier timely, more reliable and efficient in workflow.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMETN

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

DELIMITATIONS

LIMITATIONS TO THE STUDY

DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LTERATURE

CHAPTER THREE

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM FACT FINDING METHODS USED

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE CASE STUDY

OBJECTIVES OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

INPUT ANALYSIS

OUTPUT PROCESS ANALYSIS

INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAM

PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE NEW SYSTEM

CHAPTER FOUR

DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM

INPUT SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE NEW SYSTEM

CHAPTER FOUR

DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM

INPUT SPECIFICIATIONS AND DESIGN

OUTPUT SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN

FILE DESIGN

PROCEDURE CHART

 SYSTEM FLOWCHART

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

CHAPTER FIVE

IMPLEMENTATION

PROGRAM DESIGN

PROGRAM FLOWCHARTS

SOURCE PROGRAM

TEST RUN

CHAPTER SIX

DOCUMENTATION

CHAPTER SEVEN

RECOMMENDATION

REFERENCES.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

        The purpose of insurance is to provide end with greater financial security. We run risk everyday either by accident or loss of valuable property. One of the biggest risk people take is driving a car. There are newspaper, radio and television  reports about automobile accidents. There is energy need to handle such risk. Automobile insurance handles it all.

        Automobile insurance creates for one to share ones losses with here who have the same risk. In this economic risk and shared most effectively when many people are involved. Automobile insurance possible loss among large number of people and sharing the lost among many people reduces financial loss.

        Automobile insurance companies are big business both terms of sales and employment as it contributes to our economic system by offering many services as well as jobs. It protects all kinds of perils and is available for all kinds of life, properly and health protection, decision making and right insurance plan and policy are important tasks to the automobile making.

        As in banking, automobile insurance companies have statistical accounting, requirements and need for vast amount of data storage and information transmission. Over the years, manual methods have been employed in their business operations and activities. A lot of problems is associated with manual methods of data processing and storage, it has had to insurance untimely and unreliable information and report generation. The project researched into how the varying business operations and increasing range of activities of automobile insurance companies are well suited to computer applications.

        Computers can be widely employed in the wide range of their business activities including billing, collection, underwriting and claims transcribing, premium payments, assembling records and policy value to yield accurate and reliable information.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

        Computerization of automobile insurance schemes and policies has not been and easy task and therefore a problem. There is need to get rid of it and find a solution to it.

        The major concern of this study is to eradicate and take care of the problems encountered by automobile insurance companies.

        Handle their wide range and complicated activities of underwriting and accounts processing.

        Modify the existing method of carrying out automobile insurance plans and polices.

        The impacts of software designed

Solve the problems completely.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

To determine the capabilities of computer. To expose to people the implication of the software designed. To help for easy calculation and processing of underwriting and accounts processing of insurance policies.

To help for easy storage and reference of insurance policies for decision making.