The Impact Of Financial Accounting Report On The Corporate Performance (a Case Study Of Nigeria Breweries Plc)

The research work “The Impact of Financial Accounting Report on the Corporate Performance”, basically aims at how financial accounting reports has helped in advancing the objectives of corporate organizations. In the process, it investigated the effect financial accounting bears on the performance of a business. Furthermore, it sought to ascertain the compliance of relevant statue by corporate organizations and the overall satisfaction on stakeholders in a corporate organizations. The study obtained its data basically from primary and secondary sources. The primary source of data collection employed were questionnaire, oral interview and observations, while the secondary source of data included textbooks, journals in the analysis of the data collected, the simple percentage was used to analyze the responses gathered. The study revealed that a lot of problem were inherent in financial reports ranging from non-disclosure of vital information, subjective judgments of prepares of the relevant statues. There were recommendations given such as sticks compliance to the relevant statue were made to the companies, the government needs to strengthen its regulatory agencies in order to ensure that the financial statement show a “true and fair view and comply with the relevant statue at all times”.

 

The impact of financial accounting reports on the corporate performance is becoming more apparent to users groups of financial statements.

In the accounting process of an organization is to provide the information required to prepare a financial report which shall have the above characteristics than the transaction during the period must be recorded promptly and accurately and interpreted in conformity with the Generally Accepted Accounting principles (GAAP), statements of Accounting Standard Board (NASB), international accounting standard committee and the companies and Allied matters Acts cops LFN (CAMA). Financial accounting reports become necessary with the obvious need for accountability of stewardship from the manage to whom investors entrusted their financial resources. The railway age in the UK. Occurred between 1830 to 1870 and the first time the world saw the emergencies of multimillion corporation with large number of share holder. It was a period of disorder but it brought the basis for the present day system of corporate financial report. Financial reporting is a duty of stewardship assigned to the director of a company by section 334 of the company and Allied matters Act cap L20 LFN, equally the mandatory responsibility of companies to keep accounting records derives its strength from section 331 and 382 of the same act. These sections explicitly defined the necessary content and manner in which financial records should be kept.