Abstract Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">The Small and medium scale enterprises sector has been recognized worldwide for its role in economic advancement through ways various like; wealth generation, employment creation, and poverty reduction (Kithae, Gakure, &Munyao, 2012). Small and medium scale enterprises are a fundamental part of the economic fabric in most developing countries, and they play a very important role in furthering growth, innovation and prosperity. major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> Although smaller in size, they are the most important enterprises in the economy due to the fact that when all theindividual effects are aggregated, they surpass that of the larger companies.
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:TimesNewRoman; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:windowtext">Accounting techniques serves as a critical tool for recording, analyzing, monitoring and evaluating the financial condition of organizations,preparation of documents necessary for tax purposes, providing information support to many other organizational functions, (Amidu et al., 2011). In the context of SMEs, accounting techniques is important as itcan help the firms manage their short-term problems in critical areas like costing, expenditure and cashflow, by providing information to support monitoring and control. mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Swiss721BT-Light; color:windowtext">
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Many small business owners are daunted by the mere idea of accounting techniques and bookkeeping. But in reality, both are pretty simple. Keep in mind that bookkeeping and accounting techniques shares two basic goals: to keep track of income and expenses, which improves chances of making a profit, and to collect the financial information necessary for filing various tax returns.
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Times-Roman;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">According to Goltz (2011), poor accounting techniques are one of the top ten reasons why small-scale businesses fail. i.e. you cannot be in control of a business if you do not know what is going on. With bad numbers, or no numbers, a firm’s is flying blind, and it happens all of the time, this Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">affect the operations and performance of SMEs in Nigeria especially this issue of lack of adoption of good accounting techniques/method which is a worm eating deeply and the large chunk of revenues generated by these SMEs for their growth and survival.
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;color:windowtext">The major objective TimesNewRoman;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman; color:windowtext">aim major-latin;color:windowtext">is to examine the effect of accounting techniques on small scale business performance.
keyword: SME, accounting, cash basis, balance sheet, accounting principles, accountant
THE EFFECT OF ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUES ON SMALL BUSINESS PERFORMANCES.
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