An Investigation in the Role of Accounting in the Public Sector Citing Two Departments in Zambia

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RESEARCH METHODS

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

MSc. ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (FAST TRACK)

NAME: MAILES MBEWE LUPIYA

DATE DUE: 29th MARCH 2012

WORD COUNT: 1500

TABLE OF CONTENT

1.0 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………….. 3

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW………………………………………….. 4

3.0 RESEARCH PARADIGM, METHODS………………………… … 5

4.0 ANALYSIS METHODS……………………………………………… 6

5.0 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS …………………………………… 8

6.0 TIMEFRAME …………………………………………………….. 9

7.0 REFRENCES …………………………………………………….. 9

8.0 REFLECTIVE STATEMENT………………………………… …… 12

9.0 APPENDIX- RESEARCH ETHICAL APPROVAL FORM

Research topic:

An investigation in the role of accounting in the financial management of public sector in the context of financial reporting: the case study of ministry of Finance national planning & Development and Ministry of Home Affairs in Zambia

1.0 Introduction
Zambia a democratic country is one of the former rich countries in Africa who is now among the poor ones in the African continent. She has not been left out of the public sector reforms that are worldwide. Although globally the public sector reforms have greatly improved as noted by ACCA (2010), most developing countries are still lagging behind and Zambia is no exception.
Most accounting researchers agreed that public sector financial management does improve the public sector outcomes and it has an impact on the way resources are utilised. However, Rahaman and Lawrence (2001) noted that most literature reported inadequacies’ in the public sector accounting and financial management systems and practices in the developing countries

With the reforms that Zambia has undertaken, it is expected that all the accounting roles are observed knowing that the public sector recruited

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