Accounting Software Packages and Work Performance of Accounting Officers in Public and Private Organizations in Port Harcourt Metropolis

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The study investigated Accounting Software Packages and Work Performance of Accounting Officers in Public and Private Organizations in Port Harcourt Metropolis. Four (4) specific objectives four (4) research questions and four (4) null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlational design. The population of the study was 200 Accounting Officers from private and public firms in Port Harcourt Metropolis in Rivers State. Census sampling technique was applied as the population was of a manageable size. The instrument used for data collection was two sets of self-developed structured questionnaires titled “Accounting Software Packages for Accounting Officers Questionnaire (ASPAOQ) and Work Performance using Accounting Software Packages Questionnaire (WPASQ). The instrument was validated by three (3) experts, two (2) in the field of Business Education and one (1) in Measurement and Evaluation all in the Faculty of Education in Rivers State University. The reliability was computed using Cronbach’s Alpha, which yielded coefficients indexes of 0.72, 0.74, 0.69 and 0.70 respectively. Out of the 200 copies of the questionnaire distributed, 175 were retrieved. The statistical tool used for analysing the data was Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient for answering the research questions while hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance using t-transformation of correlation coefficients. The study revealed that all of the accounting Software packages including

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