Accounting and computers

INTRODUCTION: How did computers come into being? What can they do? Are we able to use them in the Accounting field? Do they simplify all the Accounting work? What's the outlook for computers in the future? These are the questions have been crossing my mind. The whole world is telling us that the computer simplifies everything. For Accounting students to become fully equipped to go out into the world of work, it is becoming necessary …

…computerised accounting system is smooth and without any hitches. Reference: How computers have simplified accounting By Carol L. Cook Available from /www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/7/89.07.06.x.htm [Accessed 20/04/2006] www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~gwatkins/isdp2/04-05/lec8ie.doc [Accessed 24/04/2006] Weerd, I. (2005), WEM: A Design Method for CMSbased Web Implementations, institute of information and computing sciences, utrecht university, technical report http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/RUU/CS/techreps/CS-2005/2005-043.pdf [Accessed 24/04/06]