THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN THE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE

29 PAGES (3126 WORDS) Accounting Seminar
INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL MEANING OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
In the public sector organization exhibit a variety of social economic, political and legal characteristics. They have different pattern of accountability. They have different objectives and are financial in many ways. They also have different organizational structure.
Generally, public accounting may be defined as  a composite activity of collecting, analyzing, recording, summarizing and interpretation of the financial transactions of the government units.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER PAGE I
TITLE PAGE II
DEDICATION III
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IV
TABLE OF CONTENT V

CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL MEANING OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING 1
1.2 DEFINITION OF TERMS 1
1.3 SOURCES OF MONEY INTO PUBLIC ACCOUNT 3

CHAPTER TWO - LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 AREAS OF EXPENDITURE FROM PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 7
2.2 TYPES OF ACCOUNTING OFFICERS IN THE PUBLIC 10
2.3 THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING OFFICERS IN THE 
CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 13
2.4 PROBLEMS HINDERING ACCOUNTANTS-
 FROM IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE CONTROL        16
2.5 SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE SOLUTION OF –
THESE PROBLEMS 17

CHAPTER THREE
3.1 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 21
3.2 RECOMMENDATION 22
BIBLIOGRAPHY 26