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    Managerial skill and book keeping practices in small-scale business. a case study: industrial division Mbale municipality
    (Kampala International University, College of Economics and Management, 2017-08) Ariho, Africano
    The study aimed at determining the influence of managerial skills on book keeping practices in Small Scale Businesses to answer the following questions; i) What effect do technical skills have on bookkeeping in the Small Scale Businesses? ii) What effect do conceptual skills have book keeping in small-scale businesses? iii) What relationship exists between managerial skills and book keeping? A qualitative research design was adopted to elicit the effect and relationship between managerial skills and book keeping practices in Small Scale Businesses. 45 respondents were systematically sampled; data was obtained using self-administered questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics from Excel package. Research findings revealed that majority 69.95% and 85.84% of respondents in Small Scale Businesses practice technical and conceptual skills respectively but this has little influence on book keeping as only 41.9% do practice. It was further revealed that Small Scale Businesses owners/managers have more of the conceptual skills than the technical skills as indicated by a variation of 15.85%. Study findings derived from Pearson's correlation indicated a moderately positive relationship between managerial skills and book keeping. 33.6% (0.582 ) of the variation in managerial skills is explained by book keeping practices.