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Information Technology
Today business world is changing rapidly. The cause of this is globalization, high IT investment and technological change in relationship with high cost of research and development (Frishamar, 2004). The function of information technology has become important part of how companies manage and control their resources, different companies and organizations respond to technology in different ways (Johnson, 2007). IT plays a significant role in modern business especially in looking at accounting function; it has transformed the nature of business and accounting practices where computers are used in recording data this results to time saving and enhances accuracy.
As we look into the technology of the future in accounting functions and accounting information systems our views collects what is near us that is, increase adoption of collaborative technology and the interchangeability of collaborative tools. Use of computing leads to the edge of what we can currently hold.
Many tasks in accounting have been automated, with advance in hardware, software technology. Accounting software has increasingly...
Accounting software used to be basic whereby bookkeeping transactions was simply processed for businesses but today because of technology accounting enterprise-wide software are incredibly powerful, complex and are able to collect a wide variety of data to support business decisions for large companies. They are also able to accommodate specific company information needs driven by some unique business processes.
FORCASTING 2020
Due to advancement in technology, the view of accounting function and accounting information system in the year 2020 is based on the adoption of technology and the contributions that come with it, that override the traditional ways of doing things. For instance in the year 2020 the business solutions will become a part of integrated enterprise accounting software programs called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)systems which include; financial functions integrated with sales, and distribution, human resource application in manufacturing. This will aid in processing all types of accounting transactions. It also enable the sales…
REFERENCES
Frishamar, J. (2004) characteristics in information processing approaches.
Johnston, D.G (2007) studying the impact of information technology on role of how to manage accounting.
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Introduction Title: Introduction to Information Technology Information Technology (IT) is a vast and rapidly evolving field that encompasses the use of computers and telecommunications to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data. From simple tasks like sending an email or using a smartphone to more complex operations like designing software or managing a network, IT has become an essential part of our daily lives. IT professionals are responsible for developing and implementing technology solutions
Information Technology Case Bharti Airtel is the world's fifth largest telecom company and it is famous for outsourcing everything except finance, marketing and sales. In the early days Bharti used to do all the business processes itself and it used to cost much more. Then they came up with the idea of outsourcing everything and just keep the departments of core competencies. And they kept marketing because in today's world every telecom
The need for continually creating and updating the security techniques and technologies involved in an enterprise system is the ethical responsibility of the IT professional. In order to successfully protect the information and intellectual property assets of a firm, an IT professional also needs to make a personal commitment to stay as current as possible on existing and future technologies (Pemberton, 1998). This commitment needs to be supported by the
Information Technology One of the main sources of development of human beings is through the development of knowledge and in this exercise; we shall be talking about a group in our society who are mainly interested in the development of knowledge -- a university. In these organizations also, information technology now plays an important role as the storage and transfer of knowledge within the organizations and from outside the organization. In