Practices and Challenges of financial management in private and government secondary schools in Dukem town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dabi, Kenenissa (PhD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Birhanu, Eshetu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-28T10:55:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:00:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-28T10:55:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:00:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of the study was to explore the practices and challenges of financial management in private and government secondary schools in Dukem town. Therefore, this study focuses on find out common sources of finances, find out how the schools manage the finance earned from different sources, to identify the challenges in role in managing the finance and measure taken. Descriptive method were employed to conduct the study and the sampling techniques. Questionnaire, interview, and different financial documents were used as data collecting instruments. Questionnaires for 7 school principal, 68 teachers, 8 financier personnel from four schools and, interviews with 8 PSTA, 1 process owner from education office and 1 finance process owners were conducted. The study discovered that the education budget comes from the government, School internal income and community contribution were the main sources of education budget in study schools. Teachers were selected through stratified random sampling techniques; whereas school PSTA, principals, vice principals and financial personnel were selected trough available sampling techniques. The statics used to analyze the data were frequency, mean and one way Anova test. The study found that the lack of diversification sources of school finance, lack of participation of stakeholder in budget preparation, lack of financially skilled man power finance personnel, lack of relevant training, absence of internal and external auditing activity, delay in releasing budget, engagement of school management on different duties and lack of effective measures taken were the major challenges of financial utilization in Dukem Town Secondary Schools. Based on the finding of the study, it was recommended that all the stakeholders should involve in diversification of school sources of finance, participate actively in financial management system ,fulfill skilled man power of finance personnel, also the finance and economic development office should audit the financial activities performed in accordance with the existing financial guidelines, regulations and principles of ministry of finance to minimize the stated problems and take effective measure up on problem makers of the school finance | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28379 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | Teachers were selected through stratified random sampling techniques; whereas school PSTA, principals, vice principals and financial personnel were selected trough available sampling techniques | en_US |
| dc.title | Practices and Challenges of financial management in private and government secondary schools in Dukem town | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |