...N. Kathiravan; S.R. Devadasan; M. Muhammed Zakkeer Purpose To design a quality improvement oriented training and education programme (Q_TEPS) for a company manufacturing milk products and to explore its performance using a financial accounting system. Design/methodology/approach A company...

...Fengyi Lin; Olivia R.L. Sheng; Soushan Wu Purpose The eChain type of bank accounting information system (eCBAS) is proposed to facilitate standard business document electronic exchanges between banks, central factories, and their satellite vendors in the virtual world. This framework integrates...

...David C. Yang; Miklos A. Vasarhelyi; Caixing Liu This paper identifies potential data problems when using accounting databases. To examine data errors, two commonly used accounting databases, Value Line and Compustat, are compared in their qualitative and quantitative features. Data are examined...

... complex world of business, a wider range of paradigms needs to be used to improve the potential success of systems and implementation. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Accounting Computers Information systems Implementation Information technology Management information systems Organizational theory...

...Thomas E. Vollmann Well over 50 per cent of a manufacturing company′s resources are found in Operations. Long‐ and short‐term success demands deploying these resources– money, time, material and people – on the right problems and their solution. Unfortunately, traditional accounting‐driven...

...Bill Cadogan The advent of the European Single Market demands a radical rethink in the design and use of accounting software. The implications are analysed and relational database concepts as the way to European‐based or even internationally useful systems are discussed. 16 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT...

...Steve Mills; Brian H. Kleiner The accounting profession is playing a major role in promoting or enhancing productivity in organisations. This article presents ways in which accountants are fulfilling that role. Accountants enhance productivity through various means. They report on the results...

...Malcolm J. Morgan British industry is dominated by accountants of one kind or another. However, it is argued, the writing is on the wall. The gradual erosion of the efficacy of management accounting systems has largely been a result of the blurring of an initially, historically clear demarcation...