Accounting Information Systems (AIS) in SMEs

Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Development/ Acquisition Approaches by Greek SME

This paper reports some findings from a wider pilot research study that addresses the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) development/acquisition practices adopted by a sample of Greek companies. Organizations, worldwide, realize that existing AIS are not flexible enough to adapt to rapidly changing conditions induced by globalization and new business paradigms. Many companies, despite high re...

Study of Influencing Factors in Successful Implementation of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) on listed Companies of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)

In this research we study the influencing factors that have direct effect on successful AIS implementing. According to other researches, we specified some factors that are most efficacious ones, and categorized them through three main hypotheses of human recourses, technical characteristics of AIS and management strategies. To study various dimensions of these groups we determined some other fa...

Process mapping and scripting in the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) curriculum

The ability to understand, document, and suggest improvements for a business process is an import­ ant skill for an accounting student for the following reasons: (1) efficient business processes give businesses a competitive advantage; (2) business process analysis provides auditors with an assess­ ment of business risk; and (3) successful enterprise resource planning implementation depends on ...

Skillset to Assimilate Information Technologies in Accounting SMEs

Competence in operating IT on one hand aids the routine business activities related to an accountants’ work and on the other helps them create an environment where these technologies operate at their optimum level for the strategic internal and external advantage of the business. Recent studies indicate that accounting businesses are now customer-oriented, information-driven, project-based, fla...

Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Course Design: Current Practices and Future Trajectories