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Extent of Financial Discipline In District Assemblies in Ghana: A Case Study of the Birim North District Assembly, Eastern Region

Extent of Financial Discipline In District Assemblies in Ghana: A Case Study of the Birim North District Assembly, Eastern Region

          
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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (UNIVERSITY), course: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, language: English, abstract: Decentralization is a mechanism for bringing governance closer to the governed and helps to improve public administration by empowering local authorities, thereby enhancing the capacity of government to achieve local participation and accelerated development through financial sanity. Section 240(2) (c) of the Local Government Act of Ghana provides that each district assembly shall have a sound financial base with adequate and reliable sources of revenue, hence making them financially accountable to the people they serve. Despite this requirement, many Metropolitan/Municipal/District Assemblies have a limited number of sources of revenue for carrying out their activities. Apart from the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), which is 7% of total national tax revenue, the assemblies can also receive grants, land rates, mineral royalties, transfer, ceded revenues and external credits. The use of these monies is expected to conform to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning requirements. It is a requirement that, all monies are released at the assembly level by a warrant. This research examined the extent to which financial discipline was concerned within the Birim North District Assembly. It was found that not all monies paid were on the authority of the warrant. They are also expected to engage in activities that can generate revenues, (Internally Generated Fund, IGF) to be used for their administrative and other recurrent operations. However, many of them lack the capacity to develop revenue generating activities while others are unable to generate sufficient revenue internally because of the deprived circumstance of their districts. The researcher also found out that there were a lot of loopholes in the management of finances in t


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783668407473
  • Publisher: Grin Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3668407479
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2017
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Case Study of the Birim North District Assembly, Eastern Region
  • Width: 178 mm


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