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    Financial management systems in local government in Garowe Puntland Somalia
    (Kampala International University.College Of Humanities and social science, 2016-08) Hassan, Mohamud Farah
    The study investigated financial management systems in the local governments of Garowe, Somalia. There were four objectives that guided the study. They sought to establish the role of four factors namely accounting systems, budgeting, management practices, and employee capacity in detennining the integrity of financial management systems in the local governments. The study adopted a descriptive survey design which involved both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Using this method, the researcher used a structured questionnaire ( close ended). A research population of 140 was identified and a sample size of 104 respondents was arrived at by ' use of the Slovene's fonnula. In selecting the respondents, the researcher used stratified and purposive sampling techniques. The key findings suggested that accounting systems had a high, positive, and significant effect on the integrity of financial management systems in the local governments. It was also established that budgeting had a high, positive, and significant role in the integrity of financial management systems. Management practices were also found to have a high and significant effect on the integrity of financial management systems. Finally, employee capacity was found to be significantly but lowly influential in detennining the integrity of financial management systems in the local governments of Garowe, Somalia. The study concluded by stating that all the four factors were significant detenninants of financial management systems in the local governments in question. The recommendations suggested updating the accounting systems, Increase in the budget allocations made to financial management systems, Better management practices in the financial management systems department and Capacity building on the employees working in the financial management systems department.