CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A well developed scientific and technological base are conditional to any national human and material development. Nigeria has been classified as a developing nation and has continued to make a break through by emphasizing much on science and technology thereby making inclusive of Accounting education in the curriculum of the junior and senior secondary schools.impediments to the acquisition
During the ministerial council meeting of the national council on Education in 1987, the Federal Government of Nigeria deiced to introduce Accounting education into the nation’s secondary school system. This was followed by the inauguration of the National committees on Accounting education the same year. The functions of the committee among others included, planning for dynamic policy on Accounting education and literacy in Nigeria as well as devising clear strategies and terminologies to be used by the federal and state governments in the introducing Accounting education .impediments to the acquisitionThe general objective of the policy are: