CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
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 annual. For this reason it is of importance that there should be a reliable system of automated capital budget system. A good automated capital budget system 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. A look at a brief history of the how comes 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. In other-word a budget helps managers manage and it can be said that having a budget has more advantages then 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 Enugu state ministry of finance.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It is easy to note that automated capital budget system entails large volume of work and a whole lot of calculation. This make 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 capital budget . Inefficient and insufficient records will always result to a poor and inaccurate budget. The fact that humans cant tackle the ambiguous calculations and complex allocation involved in capital budget 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 Enugu ministry of finance and I will also try to derive a good computer system that will take care of these problems.