Public Sector Accounting Standard Adoption and Quality of Financial Reporting in Higher Institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States, Nigeria (Published)
This study investigated public sector accounting standards adoption and quality of financial reporting in higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The study population consisted of all public higher institutionsin both states and a sample size of three hundred and twenty (320) was utilized for the study. Primary and secondary sources of data were employed while univariate and multivariate analysis were used for data analysis. The multivariate analysis revealed that Pre – and Post- IPSAS adoption has no significant difference in the financial reporting of relevance while faithful representation, understandability, timeliness, verifiability and comparability has significant differences in the Pre- and Post-IPSAS adoption periods in the higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa State. The study concluded that Pre- and Post-IPSAS periods has no significant influence with relevance of higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States;Both Pre- and Post-IPSAS adoption period has significant difference in influencing faith representation of higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States;Both Pre- and Post-IPSAS adoption period has significant difference in influencing understandability of higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States;Both Pre- and Post-IPSAS adoption period has significant difference in influencing timeliness of higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States; and both Pre- and Post-IPSAS adoption period has significant difference in influencing verifiability of higher institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa State. Hence the study recommended amongst others that public sector entities should adopt both Pre-IPSAS and Post-IPSAS principles in preparing financial reporting quality in term of faithful representation because this study affirmed that both Pre and Post IPSA has significant difference in the financial reporting in term of faithful representation.
Keywords: Accounting Standard, Financial Reporting Quality., Relevance, timeliness, verifiability
Compliance of Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry with Disclosure Requirements of Sas 14 and Sas 17. A Case Study of Oando Plc (Review Completed - Accepted)
This study was carried out with a view to reviewing the financial statements of companies/operators in the Nigerian petroleum industry with emphasis on determining their level of transparency which is a function of their level of compliance with the provisions of Statements of Accounting Standards (SAS) 14 for the upstream operators and Statements of Accounting Standards (SAS) 17 for the operators in the downstream sector of the industry. It focuses primarily on the financial statements of OANDO PLC for the upstream and downstream analysis being an integrated oil company. The study adopted purely secondary data from the financial statements of OANDO PLC for the period 2006 – 2010. The findings were presented via tables of compliance index which revealed a substantial compliance with the disclosure requirements of the two standards. The study concludes by making some recommendations to the regulators especially the newly established Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) formerly the Nigerian Accounting Standard Board (NASB) with respect to the enforcement of all issued standards and application of stipulated sanctions to all forms of breach to the provisions of the standards.
Keywords: Accounting Standard, Disclosure, Downstream, Transparency, Upstream