CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
 According to Rubin, (2007), record Keeping is the process of collecting, inputting, storing, classifying, summarizing and interpreting data. Record keeping has two sides, viz: – financial record keeping and managerial record keeping. The basic purpose of financial record is to assist decision makers in evaluating the financial strength, profitability and future prospects of a business. Managerial record keeping in contrast is tailored to the needs of a particular company. It helps the executives to measure success in carrying out their plans, to identify problems requiring executive attention and to attain company objectives. The purpose of record keeping is to produce financial statement and accurate record about a business entity. Therefore, in this study, we narrowed down to the record keeping system as been practiced by a business center in Awka. Nearly all the tasks manually performed by man some years back can now be done in matter of seconds with computer technology. Since the invention of the “wonder machineâ€ÂÂ, there has been a change from the manual way of carrying out certain tasks to a faster and more reliable computerized method.  Justifiably, if a supermarket has the problems of keeping adequate record of financial transactions, workers file and managerial documents accrued by the purpose of planning, accuracy, timely data processing and security. They do this in manual means with its associated problems of insecurity, high cost of operation and long period of time used for processing data. The design and development of computerized record keeping system in the supermarket will no doubt bring about immeasurable relief from the problems associated with manual system of record keeping. Therefore, the study is aimed at producing an efficient computer software package that can handle the record keeping system of the supermarket. Rubin, (2007).