International Journal of Business Economics and Management Research

  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Impact of E-accounting on task performance and adoption

  • Author:
  • A. Vinayagamoorthy, K. Senthilkumar
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 86 to 94

Department of Commerce, Periyar University, Salem-11. T.N.

Abstract

The Accounting Act of 1997 and further guidelines issued by the Accounting Board in 2000 provide an institutional setting for the use of electronic data media in financial accounting for registering, transfering and storing data as well as reporting information electronically. Thus, source documents and accounting records exist in digital form instead of on paper in an electronic accounting system. New technologies, like the Internet and mobile solutions, have provided new business opportunities and operations. E-Accounting is new development in field of accounting. In e-accounting, source documents and accounting records exist in digital form instead of on paper. E-accounting concept is adopted at international level. E-accounting helps businesses keep their financial data and accounting software in a safe, secure environment, allowing real time access to authorized users, irrespective of their location or computing platform. Therefore this paper is based on Basic Concepts and features of e-accounting, problems of e-accounting have been discussed in the paper comprehensively. This paper is carried out to evaluate the impact of computerized AIS, known as E-Accounting, after the section includes the measures of task performance and adoption and the last section presents the conclusion.

Keywords

E-Accounting, Task performance, Accounting Information System