Abstract:
Management and accountability is one of the tasks which a secondary head is responsible for. For
a school to achieve the purpose for which it is established, principal must perform his roles of
putting both human and material resources under his/her control in the right direction. In line with
this, this paper defined the concepts of management and accountability as conceptualized by
different scholars. Moreover the paper examines the factors influencing management and
accountability functions of a school head which include availability of resources, degree of
motivation, and congruency of goals among others. The paper also explored some accountability
functions of a principal such as accountability for cash, things deeds and result. In addition, the
paper also discusses on management functions of a principal which consists of management of
school finance, provision and maintenance of physical facilities among others. The paper also
gives some highlight on how secondary school head (principal) manages and accounts for fund
made available to them.
