ACCOUNTING SYSTEM USES AND INTERNAL CONTROL IN A COMMUNITY BANK. (A CASE STUDY OF UMU CHINEMERE COMMUNITY BANK)

CHAPTER ONE

1.0            INTRODUCTION

Statement on auditing standard defined internal controls, the whole system of controls, financial and otherwise, established by the management in order to carry on the business of the enterprise orderly efficient manner, ensure adherence to management policies, safeguard the assets and secure as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of the records.

Internal control and good accounting system ensure that controls and operating procedure are functioning efficiently in order to protect the bank from fraudulent manipulations, losses, errors and irregularities.

In view of huge investments by the community development Associations, organizational/societies, individual shareholders should be controlled, safe guarded, and made result yielding venture, The recruitment of a qualified internal auditor acts as a safety value in internal control. In recent times, defalcation, misapplication of depositors funds, inside abuse, theft of properly, and other types of financial improprieties have been found in our banks. Internal control and good accounting structures should assist to eliminate all the vices.

The urgent challenge facing this nation is the eradication of mass poverty.

(1)       Banking has been an important economic indicator, spanning over a hundred years in Nigeria.

(2)       The history of Community Bank cannot be completed without remembering the former president, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, General Ibarhim Badamasi Babangida, on the occasion commissioning of the First Community Bank in the Country Viz Adhere Community limited of the Tundun Wada Community Bank of Kaduna  in Kaduna State on 31st December 1990. the speech was unique and Historical, it spelt out to the rural Dwellers:

(a)              What are the objectives behind the establishment of the Community Banking system?

(b)               Have these objectives been attained

(c)              What are the functions of Community banks?

(d)             What are the structures of National Board for Community Banks?

(e)              What are the internal controls of a Community bank case study Umuchinemere Community Bank?