Accounting Information as an Aid to Management Decision Making (A Case Study of Unilever Nig Plc)

TABLE OF CONTENT

TITLE OF PAGE

CERTIFICATION

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CERTIFICATION

CHAPTER ONE

1.1           INTRODUCTION

1.2           BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

1.3           STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1.4           PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

1.5           SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY

1.6           RESEARCH OF THE STUDY

1.7           SCOPE OF THE STUDY

1.8           LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

1.9           DEFINITION OF THE TERN USED

CHAPTER TWO

2.0    LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1    INTRODUCTIONS/DECISION MAKING

2.2    DEFINITION OF THE ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT

2.3    ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AND ITS SYSTEM

2.4    BRIEF HISTORY OF UNILEVER NIGERIA PLC

2.5    STEPS IN CREATING THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

2.6    USERS OF THE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION

2.7    COMPONENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT

2.8    NATURE OF THE RATIO ANALYSIS

2.9    CONSEQUENCE OF NOTE MAKING OF THE    RIGHT          DECISION

CHAPTER THREE

3.0      RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1      PROFILE OF THE CASE STUDY

3.2      AREA OF THE STUDY

3.3      POPULATION OF THE STUDY

3.4      SAMPLE OF THE STUDY

3.5      DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENT

3.6      ADMINISTRATION AND THE RETRIEVAL OF THE STUDY

3.7      METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS

CHAPTER FOUR

4. O  DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

4.1    PRESENTATION OF DATA

4.2    ANALYSIS OF DATA

4.3    DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0    SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1    SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

5.2    CONCLUSION

5.3    BIBLIOGRAPHY

         APPENDIX

CHAPTER ONE

1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Business organizations are constantly faced with the problem of decision making such as: what level of profit will provide adequate return on capital.  How will such profit will be achieved bearing in mind the action of the competitor? Should it be through price promotion or the cost reduction strategies or should the company diversify or change its product mix, should the company restructure, recapitalized the efficiency machinery or change its marketing strategies? all these questions need to be answered promptly to gain the competitive age over the others. the insufficient resource brought the issue of effective decision waking in an organization. it is against the background of the limited resources, man capital and materials that objectives are driven at the profit maximization.