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Budgeting/budgetary control system and institutional effectiveness in universities in Kwara state, Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: The study examined the relationship between budgeting/budgetary control system and institutional effectiveness in Universities in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of budget committee, budget implementation, value for money check and internal audit check on institutional effectiveness in universities in Kwara State.
Methodology: Two researchers’ questionnaires were designed to collect data from sampled respondents; they were ‘Budgeting/Budgetary control System Questionnaire (BBCSQ)’ and ‘Institutional Effectiveness Questionnaire (IEQ)’. The instruments were validated by two experts to ascertain the content validity while the reliability of the instruments was determined using Cronbach Alpha statistics, thus, the reliability coefficients were found to be 0.83 and 0.76 respectively. Four universities were randomly sampled out of the six accredited universities in Kwara State. The selection represented 67% of the total population. The respondents were the staff of the bursary department of the sampled universities and 110 respondents were determined out of the 290 targeted population using proportional sampling technique. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 at 0.05 level of significant using PPMC while descriptive statistics of means and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions raised in the study.
Results: The result of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between budgeting/budgetary control system and institutional effectiveness in Universities in Kwara State (r. value=.578> t. value=.000).
Recommendations: It was recommended among others that budget committee should be composed of experienced and well versatile members in the field of accounting and finance to enhance their performance and overall effectiveness in the system
Effects of Felder-Silverman’s learning styles model on students’ achievement in secondary school physics in Bassa Local Government Area, Nigeria
No full textPurpose: The study determined the achievement of students in physics when exposed to Felder-Silverman’s learning styles, amongst others.
Methodology: The separate-sample pre-test, post-test quasi-experimental research design was adopted. The population was 419 senior secondary two (SSII) students offering physics in 31 schools in Bassa Local Government Area, Nigeria. A sample of 88 students obtained from four intact classes were used. The instruments used were the Index of Learning Style Questionnaire (ILSQ) and Physics Achievement Test (PAT). Construct validity and content validity were respectively performed on the ILSQ and PAT. The test-retest method was used to obtain the reliability coefficient of ILSQ as 0.86. Kuder-Richardson formula 20 was used to obtain the coefficient of PAT as 0.81. ILSQ was administered, before PAT, as pre-test so as to place students into the learning styles. After teaching for four weeks, using the lecture method, PAT was administered as post-test. The mean and ANCOVA were respectively used to answer the research questions and hypotheses.
Results: Visual/verbal and sensing/intuitive learners achieved higher than the active/reflective and sequential/global learners, amongst others.
Findings: A major finding was that sensing/intuitive and visual/verbal learning styles had significant effect on students’ achievement but active/reflective and sequential/global learning styles had insignificant effect.
Recommendations/Classroom Implications: Students should be encouraged to put their learning styles into use. When students are exposed to the different dimensions of learning styles, their achievement in Physics may be improved
Assessment of political officeholders’ attitudes towards educational planning in federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria.
Get PDFIntroduction: The attitudes of political officeholder towards educational planning in Nigeria is not encouraging and this is affecting the entire educational system.
Purpose: This purpose of this paper is to assess the political officeholder attitudes towards planning of education in FCT.
Methodology: The survey design was used for the study. Random sampling technique was employed to select the respondents while questionnaire was adopted for data collection, test re-test method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. This study used SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Sciences) soft for data analysis. The data collected was cleansed by the researchers who removed the unwanted data. The results were analyzed using percentage, mean and standard deviation and chi-square method.
Result: The results revealed that there was significant relationship between the attitudes of political officeholders and poor planning of education in FCT.
Finding: The finding revealed that the majorities of the respondents disagreed that political officeholders have positive attitude toward educational planning, majorities of the respondents disagreed that adequately funding are provided for educational planning. It was also discovered that majorities of the respondents disagreed that political officeholders are support the capacity development of educational planners and 100% of the respondents disagreed that political officeholders are providing necessary planning tools for educational planner to plan education.
Recommendation: The government should appoint people with passion for educational development and political officeholders should develop positive attitude toward educational planning in FCT by allocating adequate funds for educational planning
Use of forensic accounting in prevention of frauds in bursary department, University of Jos, Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: Misuse of funds and fraudulent acts are the main causes of revenue leakage in both public and private sectors. They are detrimental to the success of every departments or organization. Fraud is a worrisome issue and a thing of concern to management of University of Jos.
Purpose: This study focused on the use of forensic accounting in prevention of frauds in bursary Department, University of Jos, Nigeria..
Methodology: Cross sectional research was used as a design for the study. Data was generated from both primary and secondary sources through the use of Forensic Accounting Skills Checklist for Fraud Detection (FASCFD). All the staff in the Bursary department were involved in the study. Simple percentage was used to analyze the research questions. To ensure that the items in the questionnaire are relevant and appropriate, the instrument was subjected to thorough scrutiny by an expert in forensic accounting in the Department of Accounting, University of Jos. His constructive criticisms, suggestions and recommendations were strictly adhered to in producing the final draft of the instrument.
Results: The outcomes of the study revealed that forensic accounting have significant impact on the staff’s ability to check fraudulent activities in the Bursary department of the university. It was also found that acquisition and use of forensic accounting skills can help to deter staff from committing fraudulent acts that concern funds in their possession.
Recommendations: The researchers recommended that the management of the University should ensure that there is regular forensic auditing of financial records kept by the Bursary Department. The staff of the Bursary Department in the University should be continuously trained in forensic accounting processes and procedures to enable them meet up with the global best practices in financial reports