Internally Generated Revenue and Budget Implementation in Nigeria, Ekiti State in Focus
Keywords:
: Budget, budget implementation, internally generated revenue, budgeting system, budgeting techniques.Abstract
The study examined internally generated revenue and budget implementation
in Ekiti State. This study adopted ex-post factor design which involve the
collection of data from the report of the auditor general for local government
on the account of the (16) sixteen Local Governments in Ekiti State for year
2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively were used. Data collected were analysed
using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation to provide
answer to the research questions. The findings revealed that internally
generated revenue of Ekiti State cannot be sufficient to take care of budget. It
was hereby recommended that the government need to improve on internally
generated revenue of the State and source for funds to support project
execution and budget implementation.
