| Accounting is the measuring, and disclosure or | | | | of these functions are greatly assisted by the use |
| provision of assurance about information that | | | | of various accounting software |
| helps managers and other decision makers make | | | | programs.Accounting is tied to the invention and |
| resource allocation decisions.How to become an | | | | dissemination of the double entry bookkeeping |
| Accountant.Accountants in the US are called | | | | process.Different Accounting Software Solutions |
| Certified Public Accountants and in the UK and | | | | available today:ACCPAC web-based accounting, |
| Canada are called Chartered Accountants. | | | | launched the ACCPAC Online web site in 1999 |
| Chartered Accountants in Canada are expected | | | | which allows end users to run ACCPAC from a |
| to know all US CPA knowledge as well as a | | | | simple browser for a small monthly rental |
| Canadian Accounting body of knowledge. | | | | fee.Intuit's QuickBooks for the Web represents a |
| In order to become an Accountant an | | | | new product from scratch. |
| undergraduate degree is required and then a | | | | Microsoft Small Business Manager is a new player |
| period of articling is required which can take as | | | | on the block which is a scaled down version of |
| long as 5 years with gruelling exams and an | | | | Great Plains Accounting Software. |
| exhausting series of finals.In her notes compiled in | | | | Netledger centralized net computing renamed |
| 1979, Professor Linda Plunkett of the College of | | | | Oracle Small Business Manager |
| Charleston S.C., calls accounting the "oldest | | | | Peachtree. This product was the older Peachtree |
| profession"; in fact, since prehistoric times families | | | | Office Accounting product and is also a |
| had to account for food and clothing to face the | | | | web-based solution. |
| cold seasons. Later, as man began to trade, we | | | | In 2000, Peachtree added a web-based module |
| established the concept of value and developed a | | | | to its' flagship Peachtree Complete Accounting |
| monetary system. Evidence of accounting records | | | | product called Peachtree Web Accounting.SAP |
| can be found in the Babylonian Empire (4500 B.C.), | | | | mySAP - web-based accounting featuring a limited |
| in pharaohs' Egypt and in the Code of Hammurabi | | | | number of SAP modules.So it appears that there |
| (2250 B.C.). Eventually, with the advent of | | | | are 2 different types of Accounting |
| taxation, record keeping became a necessity for | | | | Software:Web Based Accounting: which is one |
| governments to sustain social orders.Perhaps the | | | | application on a Web Server running everybody's |
| most significant benefits to contemporary | | | | application.There are of course advantages and |
| accounting has been the introduction of computer | | | | disadvantages to this type of application, |
| programs to assist in the accounting | | | | immediately coming to mind is confidentiality and |
| function.Computer programs were introduced in | | | | the security of the Servers being used as well as |
| business and government organizations in the | | | | possible breakdowns.Advantages are of course in |
| 1950s, and the most important applications of | | | | being able to use unlimited Server Resources. |
| computers have been in the areas of record | | | | And then there is PC Based accounting which |
| keeping, balancing , and transaction | | | | everybody has tried and is Bill Gates |
| recording.Accounting uses various bases of | | | | favorite.Advantages;In-house control of |
| measurement, mainly the cash basis, the accrual | | | | everything but subject to limited resources.J |
| basis (or historical cost) and variations of these; all | | | | Shipper is very interested in Accounting Software. |