THE OBJECTIVES OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THERE USEFULNESS TO THE GENERAL USER GROUPS

ABSTRACT There is a global confusion and misconception in identifying the objectives of financial statement and their usefulness to the general user groups in an office.  Some accountant appear not to be aware of the objectives of financial statement in the execution of their accounting duties. Many bodies and individuals like “R. J. Chambers, David Alexander and the National Association of Accountants” had accentuated on the objectives of financial statements in an organization long before I intended to carry out a survey of my own on the same issue. It is on this background, that I therefore, conducted a research with a view of appraising, vindicating, exposing and making clearer the objectives of financial statements of accounting in the mounding office activities, and there usefulness to the general user groups in particular. This research work will therefore throw some light on the many years old confusion and controversial issues on.  What the financial statement is, its objectives and usefulness to the user groups.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGEII APPROVAL PAGEIII DEDICATIONIV ACKNOWLEDGMENT    V ABSTRACTVI TABLE OF CONTENTVII
CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION1 1.1     OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY2 1.2SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY3 1.3LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY4 1.4DEFINITION OF TERMS4
CHAPTER TWO 2.0LITERATURE REVIEW7 2.1    OBJECTIVE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT7 2.2USERS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT8 2.3TYPES OF INFORMATION’S REQUIRED BY USERS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2.4CHARACTERISTICS OF USEFUL INFORMATION11 2.5USEFULNESS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT TO GENERAL USER GROUPS
CHAPTER THREE 3.0SUMMARY OF FINDINGS16 3.1      CONCLUSION17 3.2RECOMMENDATION18 BIBLIOGRAPHY20