ABSTRACT

The importance of accounting is gradually being recognized as germane to prudent management of any institution firm. This has necessitated the need for the computerization of structured operations Of the Accounting managers. Structured operations are known with certainty for instance, the computation and decisions based on accounting ratios. This project therefore describes the computerization of the accounting of an institution. Thus this study gives detailed methods for the development of an optimal Accounting database for an institution. It manages student's payment and takes record of all expenses made during the course of the running of the institution, generates report for the management's consumption. The project was designed with Visual Basic.Net, using Microsoft Access as the database. The method of analysis used is the structured system analysis and design method in which we developed the software using the waterfall model. The research work aims at removing the anomalies associated with the record of student's payment details and details of the income and expenditure of the institution for proper report generation and presentation.