Accounting systems in small and medium enterprises

• DECLARATION
  
• CERTIFICATE
  
• DEDICATION
  
• AKNOWLEDGEMENT
  
• LIST OF ABREVIATIONS
  
• LIST OF TABLES
  
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
• ABSTRACT
  
• CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  
  • 1.0. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
    
  • 1.1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
    
  • 1.2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
    
    • 1.2.1. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
      
    • 1.2.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
      
  • 1.3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
    
  • 1.4. SCOPE OF THE STUDY
    
  • 1.5. Company profile
    
    • 1.5.1. Historical background
      
    • 1.5.2. Location of the company
      
    • 1.5.3. Mission
      
    • 1.5.4. Objectives
      
    • 1.5.5. Shareholders and capital
      
    • 1.5.6. Management
      
• CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
  
  • 2.1. General introduction
    
    • 2.1.1. Historical background of accounting
      
    • 2.1.2. Definition of accounting
      
    • 2.1.3. Branches (Fields or Careers) of accounting
      
  • 2.2. Businesses' objectives
    
  • 2.3. Forms of business organizations
    
  • 2.4. Types of business transactions and bases of accounting
    
  • 2.5. Bases of accounting
    
  • 2.6. Users of accounting information
    
  • 2.7. Accounting principles
    
  • 2.8. Accounting system
    
    • 2.8.1. Objectives of accounting system
      
    • 2.8.2. Characteristics of an effective accounting system
      
  • 2.9. Accounting cycle
    
  • 2.10. Importance of general accepted accounting principles
    
    • 2.11.2. Single entry system
      
  • 2.12. Accounting books
    
    • 2.12.1. Journals or books of prime entry
      
    • 2.12.2. Subsidiary journals or daybooks
      
    • 2.12.3. The ledger
      
  • 2.13. Source documents
    
  • 2.14. Other source document
    
  • 2.15. Use of source documents
    
  • 2.16. Developing an accounting system
    
  • 2.17. Financial statements
    
    • 2.17.1. Balance sheet (statement of financial position)
      
    • 2.17.2. Statement of cash flows (statement of resources and application)
      
    • 2.17.3. Trading, Profit and Loss account (income statement)
      
  • 2.18. Objectives of financial statements
    
  • 2.19. The qualities of accounting information
    
  • 2.20. The needs of an accounting system
    
  • 2.21. The accounting objectives to be considered while designing an accounting system
    
  • 2.22. The limitations of accounting
    
  • 2.23. Definition of SMEs
    
  • 2.24. Accounting system for SMEs
    
• CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
  
  • 3.1. Introduction
    
  • 3.2. POPULATION:
    
  • 3.3. SAMPLING SIZE:
    
  • 3.4. DATA COLLECTION METHODS
    
  • 3.5. DATA PROCESSING
    
  • 3.6. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
    
  • 3.7. LIMITATIONS FOR THE STUDY
    
• CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONLUSION
  
  • 5.1. Summary of findings
    
  • 5.2. Conclusion
    
  • 5.3. Recommendations
    
  • 5.4. Suggestions for future researcher
    
• APPENDICES