The Effects of Technology on the Accounting Profession

Robin Bragg
ACC/340
July 27, 2015
Professor Samuel Smith

The Effects of Technology on the Accounting Profession

Once we become accountants, we will know it means that accounting is the language of the business. Through the years with all the changes made in technology for accountants, it has become easier. Technology has improved the bookkeeper’s qualification to clarify the information professionally and successfully. We now can clarify the language of the company that the bookkeeper is the most reliable.
Bookkeeping changes through the years When bookkeeping first started with the creation of the abacus to follow the estimations in business the accounting started. They started with an adding machine that helped accountants with mathematical solutions. We came up with the calculator for information accuracy that helped add the big numbers ("The Evolution Of Technology For The Accounting Profession ", 2011). With all the new gadgets to help them calculate the figures they still needed to keep track of the financial information on paper.
Twentieth Century At the end of the century came computers and accounting software that changed everything. Pencils, calculators, and ledgers were eliminated with the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program ("How To Use Microsoft Excel For Accounting", n.d.). With the processor, a bookkeeper can complete mathematical accounting or planning study with more competence than ever before. Excel was created to maintain bookkeeping purposes such as financial, making budgeting statements, and creating adjusting papers. It helps to create a budget, cash-flow statements and profit-and-loss statements, the most complex documents in accounting.

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