The study looked at the effect of bookkeeping practices on financial reporting in organizations, a case study of Kawempe division, Kampala city. It was carried out basing on the following objectives; To examine the types the financial records keeping used in Kawempe Division, to examine the usefulness or ways through which adequate the financial records keeping affects the survival of organizations in Kawempe Division and to examine the attitude & awareness of organizations in Kawempe Division towards financial records keeping. The findings revealed that, the majority of the respondents were male as compared to the female. The number of males who participated in the study was represented by 51(85%) as compared to 09(15%) of the respondents who were female, majority of the study respondents constituting 37(61%) were married and these were followed by respondents who were single as was reported by 22(37%) of the respondents, then 01(02%) who was widowed, majority of the respondents 59(98%) said that Bookkeeping Practices has contributions of Bookkeeping Practices on the financial performance of as compared to 01(02%) of the respondents who said that Bookkeeping Practices does no contribution on the financial performance of in Uganda, it concluded that Bookkeeping Practices contributes greatly on the financial performance.