This document is a research proposal on the role of bookkeeping in small businesses. It discusses how bookkeeping is important for small business success and growth. The proposal outlines the objectives, which include understanding bookkeeping practices among small and medium enterprises in Harari regional state. It also describes preparing questionnaires to assess bookkeeping methods, decision-making processes, and record-keeping strategies. The proposal will analyze collected data and provide recommendations to improve bookkeeping for small businesses.

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TITLE : The Role of Bookkeeping in Small-Business
Research Work Presentation
Department of accounting
Prepared By : Meron Samuel Advisor- Mr. Elias Abdumalik

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CONTENTS
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Introduction
Literature Reviews
Materials and Methods
Result and Discussion
Conclusion and Recommendation
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INTRODUCTIONon Bookkeeping
 Small-business bookkeeping involves setting up a framework, choosing a method and keeping track of details.
 Bookkeeping is the backbone of specific business center accounting and financial systems, and can impact the
growth and success of small business.
 It encompasses a variety of day to day tasks, including basic data entry, categorizing transactions, managing
accounts receivable and running payroll.
 Now a day, accounting software makes it possible to do much of this in private way, though any one may decide to
outsource some basic bookkeeping tasks to an online bookkeeping to grow their own small business.
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Statement of the problems
 Some Studies on SMEs have disclosed that most of small businesses fail to maintain proper accounting system due
to management inefficiencies brought about by poor record keeping.
An adequate financial record-keeping-system will provide the required information to assist SMEs to make sound
decisions for future plans.
 Moreover, in Harari regional state, there is no research done to establish how accounting influences performance.
Hence the study investigates the effects of bookkeeping on the growth of SMEs in Harari regional state.
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Objective of the study
 General Objective - The general objective of this research is about accessing how MSE in Harari regional state keeps
their accounting system, and also to understand and come up with better accounting record system approach for
their own accounting system.
SpecificObjectives:-To understand whether SMEs in Harari regional state use book keeping as accounting tool .
- To determine the types of book keeping among the small and medium enterprises in Harari regional state .
- Generating various configuration models by fitting studied rear spoiler on studied baseline.
-To understand the effects of not maintaining book of account.
-To recommend better practice on how to engage record keeping for MSE.
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Preparedresearchquestioners
To achieve the objective of this research regarding bookkeeping, questionaries' are prepared as follows for small business owners:
 What types of accounting practice is implemented ?
 How the bookkeeping function is managed either in-house or out sourced?
 How do MSE use the functions/reports of bookkeeping to make decisions?
 How the accounting reports affects decision-making?
 How do MSE describe the difference between bookkeeping in comparison to accounting?
 What bookkeeping strategies attribute to their business success?...etc
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The scope of the study
-This study is mainly focused to study the accounting practice which is used by MSE located in Harare
regional state. As there is difficulty in access of the overall official documents, hence the scope of the study
is mainly limited only on understanding of the respondents opinion.
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Relevant reviewof literatures
 For the better understanding and work of this research, relevant literatures review are made on different related
areas/topics like:
 Fundamental function of accounting and book keeping
 Single Entry System
 Double Entry System
 Bookkeeping and Performance of Small Medium Enterprises…etc
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Researchmethodology
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Researchmethodology
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 Dataanalysis, interpretation and Findings
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 Dataanalysis, interpretation and Findings
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 conclusion and recommendations
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Suggestions for Further Research
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QUESTIONS
COMMENTS
SUGGESTIONS