The Finance Department is established to keep proper accounting records that disclose, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the Council, which comply with the requirements of the enabling laws. It is a service department that provides support to all the Departments within and outside the Council. It also provides timely and accurate accounting information predicated on sound principles and conventions capable of meeting national standards.

The Finance Department is structured into sections namely:

• Accountancy
• Expenditure
• Establishment
• Revenue
  

  The Department structure is as follows;

• Council Treasurer
• Deputy Council treasurer
• District Accountant
• Assistant Accountant
• Senior Accountancy Assistant
• Accountancy Assistant
• Senior Accounts officer
• Accounts Officer
• Accounts Clerk
• Revenue Collector

GOAL

Our goal is to be a responsive service directorate, ensuring that the resources of the Council are optimally generated, employed and accounted for with improvement in cost control and financial discipline.

BASIS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING

The financial statements are prepared on the basis of historic cost as posted in the books of accounts, supported by reasonable and prudential judgments and estimates, and consistently applied in line with the provisions of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) Accrual accounting Basis. We are also guided by the following extant laws:

1. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
2. The NCA 200

 SERVICE DELIVERY

In discharging the above services, the Finance Services Department is committed to provide quality and timely services to both internal and external customers. The Department shall ensure that its services shall be discharged in accordance with the five core values of the Council, namely integrity, excellence, professionalism, responsiveness and innovation. The Department will continue to operate within the ambits of the Local Government Act of 2019, Public Finance Act 2018 and other laws of the land within its mandate and resources.

 LIMITATIONS

The Department will continue to operate within the ambits of the Local Government Act 2019 other laws of the land within its mandate and resources.