I. INTRODUCTION
Information Technology (IT) is a foundation for conducting business today. It plays a critical role in increasing productivity of firms and entire nation. It is proven that firms who invested in IT have experienced continued growth in productivity and efficiency. Many companies' survival and even existence without use of IT is unimaginable. IT has become the largest component of capital investment for companies in the United States and many other countries.
Accounting/Finance application systems like Peachtree, Net Suite and QuickBooks let you manage your business with a little or no experience. All three application systems allow the users to manage the companies' capital including bookkeeping, inventory, non-inventory & service items, sales orders, purchase orders, and reports. It allows the companies to keep tracking of the financial assets and at the same time have the information the accountant needs. Using the accounting/finance application system, makes it easier to enter and process the data rather than manually enter and process the data.
II. BODY
QuickBooks is an accounting software package which is developed by Intuit, Inc. It was launched in the 90's and since than it is one of the market leaders in accounting software. The software was designed to help the small business owners who had no formal accounting training. Very shortly after the introduction, there was no doubt that the product is going to be a hit. With a deep focus for the non-accountant, and a lower price than the competitor's products, it outsmarted its competitions. Intuit states that the company's mission is to create new ways to manage personal finances and small businesses that are so profound and simple, customers cannot i...
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III. CONCLUSION
QuickBooks software packages are very affordable and proven to be very simple to use for small business owners. Besides offering simple and basic software packages, QuickBooks offers a wide range of packages for larger growing firms also. Many of QuickBooks competitors that were in the market when QuickBooks launched are no longer around. In the past, Microsoft attempted to launch accounting software products (Microsoft Money and Microsoft Profit) in QuickBooks market with no success. Leading accounting software, Peachtree, is generally designed more from the accountant's perspective than QuickBooks is which leaves QuickBooks a market leader in small business accounting software. Intuit, Inc had annual revenue of nearly $1.9 billion in its fiscal year 2004.
They offer a variety of accounting software to growing companies. Armanino focus on changing QuickBooks, MAS, Peachtree, and other software to Intacct, which gives access to real-time financial and non-financial data, simplifies and minimizes order processing times, financial consolidations, close processes, and more. These changes in technology contribute to the growth of their clients because they are getting the best resources. Also, Armanino provides innovation according to the company’s industry, so they can succeed in whereever they
Intuit is a multinational corporation that provides products and services for both business and personal financial solutions. The Intuit name is well known throughout the Americas and continues to grow throughout the world, primarily due to their brand name products; such as TurboTax and QuickBooks, that are provided through multiple sources; direct from the manufacturer, resold by independent distributors or accountant, and in retail stores. The longstanding quality brand names combined with competitive cost has allowed Intuit to gain a 90% market share in the self-prepared tax and small to medium sized business finance solutions market (Lange, 2013). With such a large network of varied methods a consumer can purchase one of Intuit’s products or services pricing strategies may vary from one product to another, or from one seller to another.
Sage 50/QuickBooks is not just an accounting software, but a business management software, owned by Sage Group and intuit respectively.
It you've ever wondered why you need Quickbooks Online Accounting, one of the most important reasons is it provides transparency. This is important, because greater transparency creates greater employee loyalty and trust and inspires employees to work harder to achieve business goals. Transparency is especially important to your younger employees. Transparency to Your Employees is Important Because They Build Sales According to Forbes, employees are vital to your company in increasing sales, so if you are transparent with them regarding financials, they will worker harder to make the business succeed.
This report analyzes the outlook of accounting for the next five years and it will be used to determine if accounting is the right career path for me.
The accounting software packages developed and distributed by Sage and Microsoft, respectively, each use their own methods for recording accounting information.
Albrecht, W. S., Stice, J. D., Stice, E. K., & Skousen, k. F. (2002). Accounting Concepts and Applications. Cincinnati: South-Western.
The revenue cycle is a process the business will use to measure or describe the company’s financial progression of the accounts receivables. This process starts when the business first attains the product(s) and then tracks the account until the company is paid or if the company is paid in full. In every business they have to keep track of who the customer is, the customer invoices, the customer payments and any other information relevant to the customer and their account with the business. With Peachtree Accounting software is will help the business keep track of all this information stated above, along with the business would be able to run reports for information about the businesses. The accounting software will also run reports on key revenue cycle information like sales, accounts receivable and cash accounts.
In the beginning, businesses used information technology for automating the processes primarily to reduce labor costs. Subsequently, information technology is used for delivering information with speed and accuracy.
According to Professor Clark of APSU, “Accounting has changed more since 1980 than in the previous 4000 years” (Clark, 2016). The prime reason for this exponential growth in the last 35 years or so is the impact the internet has had on all of our lives. As access to the internet grows, more small businesses will be able to grow. The technology, access and speed of the internet will need to continue to match the exponential growth of the technology that uses it. So far, that seems to be the
I am interested in conducting research and teaching in managerial accounting, auditing and assurance services and accounting information systems. In particular, I am interested in exploring the role of accounting information systems in decision making, internal control, and auditing. In order to gain an appreciation of these and related issues, it is essential for me to have a strong grounding accounting, accounting information systems, information technology, managerial accounting, as well as gain a general economic and management perspective.
These software packages may also be efficient enough to collect and link information from the company’s accounting department to create a simpler process for creating and managing budgets, which will also be alterable by the management, incorporating any other provisions. These software packages are usually an invaluable tool for managing financial information and reviewing information in a real-time format.
The Impact of Information Technology on Individuals, Society and Organizations Information systems and information technology are important in supporting, maintaining and enriching many aspects of livings. They bring benefits to lives of individuals, operations of business and the functioning of society but there are also drawbacks associated with technology and information system. Both good and bad impacts of information system and technology to individuals, organisations and the society will be discussed in detail in the following paragraphs.
In the first place, computer technology can not only improved quality of working but also enhance student’s learning. In the modern society, computer technology becomes more popular in many companies. The reason is that it is able to improve working efficiency and quality. If every worker has abilities to operate and use computer technology, they can save more time to do another things. This means individuals can spend less time on working to do the same quantity of works as before. Most importantly, improving working efficiency and quality is favorable for business operating in the future. For example, more and more companies like to use digital technology to analysis their data. Digital technology is a kind of computer technology that is always used in business. The information created by digital technology and used by others will grow faster than anything else. The Economist reported in 2010 that data management and analytics are worth more than $100 billion and are growing at almost 10% a year, roughly twice as fast as the software business as a whole (Orange, 2014). This is a dramatic increase in working efficiency that is caused by computer technology. Besides, computer technology could also be used to predict further performance of a company, which is
Advances in technology have changed businesses dramatically, in particular the communication and information technology that are conducted in firms, which changed the appearance and pace of businesses over the past few decades. ICT in particular, has evolved a lot over the past 30 years; important information can be stored in computers rather than being in drawers enabling information to be transferred at a greater volume and speed (Guy, 2009). ICT has also expanded various forms of telecommunications and workload conducted in businesses, internet examples of this include: e-mails can be used to communicate with others...