Administration of Accounting Programme in Nigerian Universities: Challenges and Way Forward

Abstract

Accounting programme is one of the programmes that the Nigerian Universities are offering. The realization of the programme objectives depends on effective administration. This article discussed the challenges facing the administration of accounting programme in the Nigerian Universities and suggests the way forward for solving them for the sustainability of accounting programme in the Nigerian universities. The article identified; inadequate funding of accounting programme, inadequate accounting lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, strike actions, brain-drain problem, poor capacity development programme of accounting lecturers and poor research in accounting as challenges facing administration of accounting programme in Nigerian universities. To address these challenges, the article among other things recommended that the government should increase the funding of the university education and direct universities administrators to increase the funding of accounting programme in all Nigerian universities.