CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Budgeting is the most comprehensive management tool for planning and control in any organization. New management techniques which involve meeting the increasing complexities of business today in the society is budgeting, and many things, have been written and said about it in books, journals magazines and newspapers. In fact it attracts very much human material attention. These reasons make the need for this research into the role of budgeting in private sector management very pertinent. Budgeting is futuristic in nature. The further is subject to change while change is he only thing that is constant. Therefore, any attempt to quantitatively state the future is an approximation and then budgeting is said to be free of emotion.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This research is aimed at accomplishment of some objectives. It will examine and highlight the roles of budgeting and will also assess the impact of inflation and other unforeseen variables on the usefulness of budgeting in the private sector management in Nigeria. To achieve these, the research has to:
a) Ascertain the role of budgeting in private sector management.
b) Ascertain the system of budgeting in private sector management.
c) Apprise the role of budgeting in situation of frequent erratic changes.
d) Analyze the impact of the role of budgeting in private sector management.
e) Ascertain whether budgeting accomplishes its practical roles in the private sector management.
Generally, this project is aimed at arising interest on the role of budgeting in private sector management in Nigeria. The aim is that enough consciousness towards budgeting will be awakened by this project to improve the effectiveness of the role of budgeting.