dc.contributor.author | Ssali, Denis | |
dc.contributor.author | Walukhu, Gloria Doreen | |
dc.contributor.author | Namutebi, Shabirah | |
dc.contributor.author | Najjemba, Maria Gorret | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-05T08:01:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-05T08:01:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03-23 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ssali, D. et al. (2022). Designing of database for managing accounting records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda (SBL). Undergraduate dissertation. Makerere University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/11483 | |
dc.description | A project submitted to the Department of Records and Archives Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelors of Records and Archives Management of Makerere University. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The study was aimed at analyzing the Management of Accounting Records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda and highlighting the inefficiencies in order to design a database to improve the Management of Accounting Records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda. To meet the general purpose of the study, the following objectives acted as guidelines for the study that’s, to find out types of Accounting Records created and received at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda, to examine the Accounting Records Management practices at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda, to find out the challenges associated with the Management of Accounting Records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda and to design a database for managing Accounting Records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda. The researchers mainly used qualitative research approach but however employed minimal quantitative research analyses to enable them find a wide range of information on Accounting Records at Strategic Builders limited.. A case study was used and that was Strategic Builders Limited Uganda. But because of need to be further specific, it was deducted to the Accounting Records Department. Two methods were used for collecting data and these are interview and observation methods. The study sample size was 7. The findings revealed that Accounting Records Management at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda was apparently encountering a number of setbacks in the due course of operation. These basically originated from the fact that the organization deals with great sum of paper based Records due to limited integration of technologies in their operation hence delayed retrieval and untimely decision making to some extent. The study concluded that in order to yield efficient and effective retrieval of information and on the same note promote timely decision making, an Accounting Records Management database required to be developed to improve Accounting Records Management at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda by fostering professionalism in the due course of operation, integrating order in the managed Accounting Records through classification that is provided for in developed system and also ensuring that the Records are secure not forgetting the fact that the developed database also puts into consideration the basic principles of Records Management that’s Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality. This in the end would as well indirectly foster professionalism in the due course of operation | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ssali, Denis | en_US |
dc.subject | Databases | en_US |
dc.subject | Accounting records | en_US |
dc.subject | Accounting records management databases | en_US |
dc.title | Designing of database for managing accounting records at Strategic Builders Limited Uganda (SBL) | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |