DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF BUDGET ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR ANAMBRA STATE MINISTRY OF FINANCE

Background of the Study
It has become a normal thing for us as citizens of a country like Nigeria to wait for, the president to release the yearly national budgets, but very little of us even know what the budget actually means. A budget is an estimate or plan of income and expenditure that helps most companies, country and Organizations in taking care of projects mapped out. For this reason it is of importance that there should be a reliable system of budget analysis. A good budget analysis is a process of breaking the whole budget into separate units or parts with the sole aim of identifying and studying the structure of each part of the budgets, so that the budget would be error free, and in case of error provide possible solutions to them (Chandra, 2015).

A look at a brief history of budget. In January 1993 the African concord newspaper stated the budgets started in Britain when the then king asked for reports on the income and expenditure of the country in order to check fraudulent activities of their government, this was as a result of the countries growing population inability of those in charge to specify a given project at a given place and time, uncompleted project which were paid for and complaints laid by citizens of Britain were all the things that brought about the need for budgets (Arthus et al. 2012).

In other-word a budget helps managers manage and it can be said that having a budget has more advantages than it has any disadvantages. However the fact remains that not-withstanding the careful planning and execution of an organization’s budgets in Nigeria, the targets are still hardly met by any one organization while most budget even end up not being implemented at all. This work therefore, attempts to take a look at the methods adopted for budgets analysis or would be likely adopted for budgets analysis in an. Organization like the Anambra state ministry of finance.

1.2 Statement of The Problem
It is easy to note that budget analysis entails large volume of work and a whole lot of calculation. This makes the job very difficult a task to go by the method of information storage and retrieval processing of accumulated figures is not an easy task in places were there are no sophisticated method of budget analysis. Inefficient and insufficient records will always result to a poor and inaccurate budget. The fact that humans tackle the ambiguous calculations and complex allocation involved in budget analysis easily without the help from computer this is also a delay factor for the releasing of an accurate budget statement. This work will look into reasons why many budget ends not to work and my case study will be the Anambra ministry of finance and I will also try to derive a good computer system that will take care of these problems.
1.3 Research Questions
i. How can the method adopted by the ministry of finance on budgeting be termed?
ii. In what ways can approaches to budgets analysis be divided?
iii. To what extent in the stated period have budget targets been met?
iv. How can the problems usually faced by the organization in managing their finances be resolved?

1.4 Aims and Objectives
The aim of this study is to design and implement a budget analysis system for Anambra State ministry of finance.
The specific objectives of this study are to:
i. Consider the method adopted by the ministry of finance on budgeting.
ii. Check and determine their approaches to budgets analysis.
iii. Find out if all budget targets have been meet during the stated period.
iv. Determine the problems usually faced by the organization in managing their finances.
v. Design a new system that will take care of the above problems and lastly set up a sample budget for future use.