THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
ABSTRACT
There has been a persisting challenges of accountability and transparency in local government councils in Nigeria. The objective of this study has been to ascertain whether accountability and transparency has put to check the circumvention of due process in financial and non-financial activities of the Local government council in Nigeria.
A survey research design was adopted for the study, 55 Administrative management and 30 internal auditing totaling 85 was randomly sampled and stratified among members of staffs in local government out of 108 population sample.
Three research questions and hypothesis tested at 0.05 percent level of significance guided to study. Frequencies, percentages, Means and standard derivation were employed to answer the research question while Z-test statistics were used to test the hypotheses.
It was discovered that the process of accountability and transparency has affected the official and non-official financial behavioral attitudes of council staffs in Nigeria. It was recommended that there should be adequate sensitization through, workshops seminars and lectures on the need for accountability and transparency in the government System.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Approval Page ————————————————————————- iCertification —————————————————————————- iiDedication —————————————————————————— iiiAcknowledgement ——————————————————————— ivAbstract ——————————————————————————— vTable of content———————————————————————— viList of Tables————————————————————————— vii
Chapter one
Introduction1.1 Background of the study. —————————————————– 11.2 Statement of the problem. —————————————————- 31.3 Research questions. ———————————————————— 51.4 Objectives of the study. ——————————————————- 51.5 Research hypotheses. ———————————————————- 61.6 Significance of the study. —————————————————– 71.7 Scope of study. —————————————————————– 81.8 Limitations of the study. —————————————————— 81.9 Definition of terms. ———————————————————— 9
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE2.1.1 Financial management. ——————————————————– 152.1.2 Achieving accountability in financial management. ———————– 192.2 Structure/functions of a local government. ——————— ————– 242.2.1 Functions of a local governments. ——————————————– 252.2.2 Financial administration profile of a local government. ——————- 282.3 Auditing in the local government. ———————————————- 292.4 Budgeting in the local government. ——————————————– 302.5 Financial memoranda. ———————————————————— 312.6 Methods of local government account and the responsibilities. ———— 312.7 Accounts kept by local government. ——————————————- 332.8 Revenue collection machinery.————————————————– 352.9 Problems of revenue collection in local government. ———————— 372.10 An overview of the major source of fund/revenue by local governments. 402.11 The external source of fund/revenue by local governments. ————— 442.12 Overview of government accounting. —————————————- 452.13 Financial records. —————————————————————- 462.14 Functions of the head of service: the treasurer and legislative arm of local government. —————————————————————————- 472.15 Control measures adopted by the local government council. ————– 482.16 Measures for fighting corruption in local government. ——————— 52
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 RESEACH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY3.1 Research methodology. ———————————————————- 553.2 Research design. —————————————————————— 553.3 Population of the study. ———————————————————- 553.4 Sample design and techniques. ————————————————– 563.5 Source of data collection. ——————————————————– 56103.5.1 Primary source of data. ——————————————————– 563.5.2 Secondary source of data. —————————————————– 573.6 Instrument for data collection. ————————————————– 573.7 Validity and reliability of measuring instrument. —————————– 573.8 Method of data analysis. ——————————————————— 60
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS4.1 Presentation and analysis of data. ———————————————– 624.2 Test of hypotheses. ————————————————————— 764.2.1 Hypothesis one. —————————————————————– 764.2.2 Hypothesis two. —————————————————————– 814.2.3 Hypothesis three. ————————————————————— 87
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS5.1 Summary of findings. ———————————————————— 945.2 Conclusion ————————————————————————- 955.3 Recommendations —————————————————————- 965.4 Suggestion for further study. —————————————————- 97Bibliography 98Appendix I 100Appendix II 10111
LIST OF TABLES
TABLE 4.1: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire TABLE 4.2: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaires TABLE 4.3: The Responses and percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire.
TABLE 4.4: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaires. TABLE 4.5 : The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.6: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire.
TABLE 4.7: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.8: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.9: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire.
TABLE 4.10: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire.12TABLE 4.11: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.12: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.13: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire.
TABLE 4.14: The Responses and Percentages of Responses from Respondents to Questionnaire. TABLE 4.15: Mean computation of Administrative management Responses o test the hypothesis TABLE 4.16. Computation of standard derivation of Administrative management Responses to test the hypothesis TABLE 4.17: Mean Computation of Internal Auditing TABLE 4.18:
Computation of standard derivation of internal auditing Responses to test the hypothesis. TABLE 4.19 : Mean computation of Administrative management Responses to test the Hypothesis TABLE 4.20: Computation of standard derivation of Administrative management Responses to test the Hypothesis.
TABLE: 4.21: Mean computation of internal Auditing Responses to test the hypothesis.13TABLE 4.22: Computation of standard derivation of internal auditing Responses to test the hypothesis TABLE 4.23:Mean computation of internal Auditing Responses to test the hypothesis. TABLE 4.24:
Computation of standard derivation of Administrative management Responses to test the hypothesis. TABLE 4.25:Mean computation of internal Auditing Responses to test the hypothesis. TABLE 4.26:Mean computation of standard derivation of internal Auditing Responses to test the hypotheses4.3 TABULATION OF RESULTHYPOTHESIS ONEHYPOTHESIS TWOHYPOTHESIS THREE
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 THE BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Accountability and transparency has been critical issue in financial management of local government. It has been hampering the performances of the council and has been and is still a yet problem to be solved. It could be traced to have started during the early era of management, when people are in co-operative efforts to achieve aims which they could not achieve individually.
What is today known as local government in Nigeria has been metamorphosed from the pre-colonial transitional system of government which was highly localized according to the peculiarities of the areas. The local council or native authority presents the basic unit through which any nation administers her people of the grass-roots level
THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
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