Publisher's Synopsis
This book is not about IT, but about IT dimensions to each of the subject streams in traditional accounting programmes. The international team of contributing authors have produced a carefully structured and readable text which will integrate and support traditional accounting studies.;In addition to the chapters specially commissioned for IT and accounting, the editors have also included some readings reproduced from other sources. The result is a book which will create discussion and be stimulating. Wherever possible, conflicting and contradictory material has been selected to enable the book to be used as the basis for seminar work where underlying assumptions may be exposed and explored.;The book is divided into eight parts. Each part deals with the impact of IT on a different subject stream: economics; finance; financial accounting; management accounting; tax and law; quantitative methods; and business organization and policy. There is also a section at the end dealing with special topics of interest: artificial intelligence and accounting; computer crime; auditing and computers; and computers in accounting and education. Each section ends with discussion questions and a list of suggested further reading.;This book should be of interest to undergraduate students of accounting and finance; suitable both for specialist courses on IT implications and as support through the degree course.
