The Effect of Accounting Software (Sunplus) on Quality of Financial reporting of the Seventh day Adventist Organizations and Institutions within West Kenya Union Conference
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2021
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Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS)
Abstract
Maintenance, preparation and presentation of financial reports is crucial for business success
as well as effective decision making in organizations. The Accounting software that an
organization adopts would greatly influence the quality of financial reporting and hence
provide organizational guidance in decision making. The study therefore sought to
investigate the association between accounting software (SunPlus) and the quality of
financial reporting in Seventh day Adventist organizations and institutions within West
Kenya Union conferences. It targeted accountants who are users of SunPlus accounting
software. The objectives of the study was to determine characteristics of SunPlus accounting
software, the characteristics of users of SunPlus accounting software, the quality of
Financial Reporting of the Seventh-day Adventist organizations and finally to determine the
effect of characteristics of Users of SunPlus software on quality of Financial Reporting as
well as characteristics of SunPlus software and the quality of Financial Reporting in Seventh
Day Adventist organizations and institutions within West Kenya Union conferences. The
study employed descriptive research designs. The questionnaire was administered online and
data was obtained from 70 respondents. Data was analyzed descriptively using frequencies,
means and standard deviations. The findings of the study showed that majority of the
participants were male, which represent 61% of the total participants. The overall rating
showed that the quality of user of SunPlus accounting software is high with the mean rating
of 4.1. The overall rating on financial controls was very high with mean rating of 4.50. The
mean score rating of the financial reports generated by the SunPlus accounting software was
high. There is a strong positive effect of Characteristics of users of SunPlus software on
quality of financial reporting.