DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED PRICE MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT
Price controls are governmental impositions on the prices charged for goods and services in a free market, usually intended to maintain the affordability of staple foods and goods, and to prevent price gouging during shortages, or, alternately, to insure an income for providers of certain goods. It is the duty of the Nigerian government to provide adequate price monitoring and control system that will guard how price of goods will be use in our society. Price monitoring and control system is a program written to assist the ministry of commerce and industry in area of effective recording of all issue of price of goods allocation. It keeps the organization to keep effective and reliable records of the entire fund in the state. Over the years, the society has been face with improper accounting of fund in the nation. The organization have been finding it difficult to effectively manage fund allocation issue but with this price monitoring and control system; this will make it easier to tackle problems like security, road project problems etc effectively. As a result of these, Software based for price of goods monitoring and control system is designed to assist in the price of goods allocation process.

Title page i

Certification ii

Approval iii

Dedication iv

Acknowledgement v

Abstract vi

Organization of work vii

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Statement of problem 2

1.2 Aims and objectives 2

1.3 Purpose of study 3

1.4 Significant of study 3

1.5 Scope/Delimitations 4

1.6 Limitations/Constraints 4

1.7 Assumption of study 5

1.8 Definition of terms 5

2.0 Literature review 6

3.0 Description and analysis of the existing system 9

3.1 Fact-finding method/ methodology 9

3.2 Organisational Structure/Organogram 10

3.3 Objectives of the existing system 10

3.4 Input, Process, and Output Analysis 11

3.4.1 Input Analysis 11

3.4.2 Process Analysis 11

3,4.3 Output Analysis 11

3.5 Information Flow diagram 12

3.6 Problems of the existing system 12

3.7 Justification of the new system 13

4.0 Design of the new system 14

4.1 Design Standard 14

4.2 Output specification and design 14

4.3 Input specification and design 14

4.3.1 file design 15

4.4 Procedure chart 16

4.5 Systems flowchart 17

4.6 System requirements 18

4.6.1 Hardware Requirements 18

4.6.2 Software Requirements 18

4.6.3 Operational Requirements 18

4.6.4 Personnel Requirements 18

5.0 Implementation 19

5.1 Design Standard 19

5.2 Program design 20

5.2.1 Program Flowchart 20

5.2.2 Pseudo code 24

5.3 Coding 25

5.4 Test Data/Test Run 31

5.5 User Training – An overview 31

5.6 Cutover Process 31

6.0 Documentation 32

6.1 The user documentation 32

6.2 The programmer documentation 32

7.0 Recommendations, Summary and Conclusion 33

7.1 Recommendation 33

7.2 Summary 34

7.3 Conclusion 34

REFERENCES 35

APPENDIX 36

SOURCE LISTING 36

LIST OF FIGURES 40