Abstract:
Numerous organizations, including schools, utilise computers to carry out essential tasks,
such as accounting, developing payroll systems, controlling inventories, forecasting, and
profitability analyses of the organization. This study sought to ascertain the effectiveness
of the computerised accounting system in public schools in the Asante Akim District,
Ghana. The study has the following as its research objectives: to investigate the difficulties
that schools have when using computerized accounting systems; to determine the extent of
computerized accounting system usage in educational institutions; to investigate how well
schools are doing with regard to switching from manual accounting to a computerized
method. The study adopted a quantitative research approach and survey as its design. The
researcher used structured questionnaire to collect the data. The study found out that, there
is inadequate on-job training for accounting and finance staff related with CAS.
Furthermore, the researcher asserted that, CAS, saves time and efficiently less expensive.
The researcher highly recommends that, institutions like schools and others create an
ongoing practice of utilizing computerized accounting systems that make it simple to
prepare financial reports.
Description:
A Project Report in the Department of Educational Foundations,
submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Post Graduate Diploma
(Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba
