Financial Management Competence of Principals and Attainment of Secondary School Goals in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria

The study sought to examine the financial management competence of principals as it relate to their secondary school goal attainment in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. Two researcher made questionnaires validated by experts in Measurement and Evaluation, University of Calabar were used to collect data from a sample of 120 respondents (30 principals and 90 teachers) startifiedly selected from the seven Local Government Areas that make up the study area. All hypotheses were tested at 0.5 level of significance using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis and the result showed that secondary school goal attainment was significantly dependent on the principals’ financial management competence. It was recommended that principals be trained on financial management and that government should increase their allocation to secondary schools to ease the administrative tasks of principals and to enhance their goal attainment. Keywords: Financial Management, Competence, Goal Attainmen