Financial planning and performance of small and medium enterprises in Uganda:

dc.contributor.authorKasinyire, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-28T12:30:20Z
dc.date.available2019-12-28T12:30:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Submitted to the College of Economics and Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor of Business Administration of Kampala International Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study was about financial planning and performance of small and medium enterprise a case study of Suuni Growers Cooperative Union. The study was guided by three objectives that are: To establish how financial planning has helped SGCU Ltd to increase its profitability, to establish how financial planning has enabled SGCU Ltd to improve its liquidity, to identify the challenges faced by the management of SGCU Ltd. when conducting financial planning. Case study research design was used where both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis was also used. Purposive and simple random sampling was used to get a presentative sample. The study found out that financial planning increases profitability in Suuni Growers Cooperative union; planning, evaluation of performance, for control purpose, continuous comparison of actual results against budgets to form a basis of standards and creation of responsibility centers organizations. The researcher concluded that, financial planning has helped SGCU Ltd to increase its profitability this was evidenced from the data collected. Findings show that management of ~CU Ltd always carries out financial planning to help in increasing its profitability (by 80%), ans are drawn after consulting members (by 73.5%), plans emphasis is making profits every are as a major objective (by 70.6%), the union prepare budgets every year (by 79.4%), financial budgets are from plans of the union (by 83.4%), financial budgets are prepared to ensure the lion makes profits every year (by 73.5%), budgets are also prepared after consulting the embers (by 76.5%), budgets are evaluated periodically to ensure that the union makes profit 73.5%), and the plans and budgets are received every six months (by 58.8%). Effective financial planning provides reasonable assurance regarding the financial resources of SGCU Ltd. ~e researcher recommended that to increase its profitability through financial planning, the managers of the union should undertake courses or training about financial planning and profitability or hiring workers with knowledge and skills in accounting and financial management. The government of Uganda or the local government or URA or any other support; ent or academic institution can organize such training and charge some fees to the participantsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/5937
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKampala International University, College of Economics and Managementen_US
dc.subjectFinancial planningen_US
dc.subjectSmall and medium enterprisesen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectSuuni Growers Cooperative Union Ltd, Budaka Districten_US
dc.titleFinancial planning and performance of small and medium enterprises in Uganda:en_US
dc.title.alternativethe case study of Suuni Growers Cooperative Union Ltd, Budaka Districten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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