THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN THE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE

INTRODUCTION
1.1GENERAL MEANING OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTINGIn the public sector organization exhibit a variety of social economic, political and legal characteristics. They have different pattern of accountability. They have different objectives and are financial in many ways. They also have different organizational structure.Generally, public accounting may be defined as  a composite activity of collecting, analyzing, recording, summarizing and interpretation of the financial transactions of the government units.

TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER PAGEI TITLE PAGEII DEDICATIONIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTIV TABLE OF CONTENTV
CHAPTER ONE-INTRODUCTION 1.1GENERAL MEANING OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING1 1.2DEFINITION OF TERMS1 1.3SOURCES OF MONEY INTO PUBLIC ACCOUNT3
CHAPTER TWO-LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1AREAS OF EXPENDITURE FROM PUBLIC ACCOUNTS7 2.2TYPES OF ACCOUNTING OFFICERS IN THE PUBLIC10 2.3THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING OFFICERS IN THE  CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE13 2.4PROBLEMS HINDERING ACCOUNTANTS-  FROM IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE CONTROL        16 2.5SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE SOLUTION OF – THESE PROBLEMS17
CHAPTER THREE 3.1SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION21 3.2RECOMMENDATION22 BIBLIOGRAPHY26