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Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of the Development of Accounting Information Systems

Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of the Development of Accounting Information Systems
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Author(s): Mohamed A. Elbannan (Cairo University, Egypt)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch101
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

This paper aims at objectively viewing the consequences of the development of a typical accounting information system. Accounting is a tool for organization, documentation, and rationalization of economic decisions. Some of the significant consequences, such as rationalization and legitimization of economic action, were unanticipated at the early stages of evolution of financial accounting. In making the distinction between intended and unintended consequences, the goal is to understand how the primary components of the system evolved.

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