CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Accounting is the art of measuring, communicating and interpreting financial activity. Everybody works with accounting concepts and information in their daily activities whether preparing a household budget, balancing check book, preparing income tax return or running on association or an organization. Accounting, too, is a means of social communication in which changes and improvements are continually being made in order to communicate business information on more efficiently. That is as society has be come increasingly interested in measuring the profitability of business organizations, accounting concepts and technies hence been changing to make such measurements more meaningful and more reliable. The purpose of accounting is to provide financial information about an economic entity, in order to provide useful financial information about a business enterprise. The basic function of an accounting system is to create a systematic record of the everyday business transaction in terms of moving. Published financial statements or reports have meaning to uses of accounting information is so far as an independent audit has given an unqualified report quit. Ti perform this, the auditor makes a careful study of the accounting system and gathers evidence both form within the business and form the outside sources. This evidence enables the independent audition to express his professional opinion as to the fairness and reliability of the financial statement. Since auditing complements accounting, the quality of the information deduced from the accounting procedural methods is being checked from time to time by auditing. Auditing is an independent examination of the books of accounts and source document of a business to enable the auditor satisfy himself whether the accounts so prepared exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position of the entity according to the best of the information and explanations of which he can avail himself and whether such statements conform to the necessary legal provisions.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The introduction of computer has not really made accounting job to become easier and quicker to perform. Another problem is, the computer operations has not been utilized in an organization by accountants. In some cases, the computer has not really reduced or added to the work load of an accountant in an organization. In general the accountants find it difficult to make sure that data submitted for decision –making process in adequate and timely as well as accurate.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The following objective were formulated by the researcher areas follows: – To identify problems in changing from manual accounting process to a computer based accounting. To find out the difference between the manual and the computerized accounting system. To discuss the types of computer relevant for accounting purposes. To find out the introduction of computer in accounting system in this country.