Accounting Information Systems: The Challenge of Extending Their Scope to Business and Information Strategy” is a scholarly journal from the American Accounting Association Accounting Horizons. Written by David H. Brecht and Merle P. Martin, they describe how information technology is becoming more advanced as the years pass and that accounting information systems are becoming insufficient as a result. Due to the inadequacy that accounting information systems are becoming, accountants are being advised to focus on designing new accounting information systems to help businesses receive the information and support needed. The article explains how accountants currently focus on strategic, management, and task/operations systems styles of business as well as the types of design characteristics that influence the developing of information systems. The tools that accountants are using can help with further advancements for accounting information systems. With this knowledge, the article describes how an accountant can have the ability to design, identify, and implement the needed upgrades to accounting information systems.
Accounting/Management Information System Improvements
Accounting information systems (AIS) are widely used in many and most businesses, but as time and technology has progressed, the need for AIS has faltered because it no longer provides the necessities for a business. As a result, changes need to be made in order for AIS to supply the effecient information needed for a business. The article being critiqued describes how accounting/management information systems (A/MIS) can be developed and improved through the discussion of "the business focus of a system application and its design characteristics". By expanding ...
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Sahira has received employee complaints about the lengthy time it takes for her team to create financial reports. Her team explains that the computers are the problem and that the software programs are too difficult to use and that many hours of manual manipulation of data are required to complete monthly reports (Colorado State University-Global Campus, 2014, p. 6, ¶3). The management dilemma can be described as: Delays in financial reporting? (Appendix, Worksheet box 1). Upon further examination, the specific management question to be addressed is: Can financial data management be made more efficient? (Appendix, Worksheet box 2). Consequently, the research questions are: 1) How to streamline data for financial reporting? and 2) Is a new accounting software system needed? (Appendix, Worksheet box 3). Finally, a key accounting and financial management theory at play here is that of efficiency in data management to improve efficacy and timeliness of financial reporting.
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In 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a road map for the United States (US) to implement International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that would eventually lead to the dissolution of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) (Cox 2008). US GAAP is rules based system of accounting that contains over 25,000 detailed pages of guidance, whereas IFRS is a principles based system of accounting that contains 2,500 pages of guidance. IFRS allows accountants to exercise professional judgment when making many decisions. This paper will compare and contrast US GAAP with IFRS on Intermediate Accounting Topics.
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