Impact of Cloud Accounting on Small Business in Australia

This study evaluates the impact of cloud accounting on small businesses in Australia. It discusses the benefits, challenges, and limitations of cloud accounting and its effect on business performance. The study uses qualitative research methodology and includes a literature review and research methodology section. The aim is to understand the effectiveness and efficiency of cloud accounting in small businesses and identify the challenges and opportunities it presents. The study is relevant to the subject of accounting and is applicable to small businesses in Australia.

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IMPACT OF CLOUD ACCOUNTING ON THE SMALL BUSINESS, AUSTRALIA

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Executive Summary
This study is emphasized on evaluating cloud accounting in the small business of Australia.
This study discusses the creation section which could be an essential part of the research
named introduction, literature review, and research methodology. The introduction section
could employ different factors named research background, aim and objectives research
question, and dissertation structure. The literature review section could support to
comprehend different challenges as well as a limitation that might be faced by the firm at the
time of implying the cloud accounting in the business process. It also depicted that cloud
computing could [positive impact on the business performance of small enterprises in
Australia by increasing the connectivity. In this study, the qualitative method will be
practiced that aids to get the theoretical data. This study will be conducted on the 5 managers
of small enterprises of Austral by entailing the non-[probability connivance sampling method.
In this, both primary and secondary data collection method has been practiced to get the
information towards the research issue.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................2
Introduction to the research...................................................................................................................4
Introduce the topic of the research.....................................................................................................4
Overview of client organization (if any)............................................................................................5
Researcher seeks to resolve...............................................................................................................5
Outline the structure of this proposal.................................................................................................5
Research problem and research objectives........................................................................................6
Literature review...................................................................................................................................8
Research methodology........................................................................................................................12
References...........................................................................................................................................17
Appendix.............................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction to the research
Title of this study: The title of this study is the impact of cloud base accounting on small
business in Australia”
Introduce the topic of the research
In the current era, it is vital for the organization to improve their understanding of the cloud
base accounting in small business in Australia. From the data, it is founded that business
gives the added value of 33% of the economic development. It demonstrates the significance
of the small business in Australia. The accounting structure has been regularly changed as it
fluctuated with time and affect the overall outcome of the study (Wu, 2016). In the recent
business era, integrated software has been required to meet their goal for the attainment of the
organizational task. The new method that is generally used by in the current era is cloud
accounting as it is safer as compared to other accounting. The cloud accounting is one of the
internet bases accounting structure that is effective for sharing the data that will be supportive
in the attainment of the organizational task (Whitney, 2014). It is also founded that cloud
computing is practiced with the purpose of dealing with the challenges of the Australian firm.
It is also useful for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization to obtain
higher profit to the business. It could also eliminate the probability of uncertainty in the
business. It could be effective in getting a favorable result. It is also stated that cloud
computing is based on shifting of innovation in the IT which could be essential for operating
the business function in a systematic way. It could also be imperative to make higher profits
in the working place. It is also stated that cloud computing software could provide the path by
which an organization could access their essential information by considering the internet. It
will also be effective to make a connection among small business of Australian market that
could positively impact on the overall outcome of the business. It could enable to the
workforces of the business to operate their business function anywhere (Senyo, et al., 2016).

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Overview of client organization (if any)
The IT (information technology) is simply working in the accounting sector with new cloud
in the recording of information which supports in the business transformation. For addressing
the same goal, the researcher has decided to consider the small Australian business. From the
data, it is evaluated that more than 14% of small business has been taken the benefits of cloud
accounting in their business.
Researcher seeks to resolve
This research is effective for gaining the understanding of the impact of cloud accounting on
the small business in Australia. It could also be vital for evaluating cloud computing. It also
supports to increase understanding about limitation as well as challenges of the cloud
accounting for making effective decision in favor of the research. This best understanding
about challenges could support to the investigator to make their career in the IT industry and
sustain their position in the marketplace.
Outline the structure of this proposal
The outline of this study structure has been discussed as below:
Introduction:
The introduction section is used to know about the essential factors that are known as the
research background, research aim and objectives, research questions, and research
significance. These factors could increase the basic understanding of research that will lead to
getting higher competitive benefits. It is founded that this section proved a path to the
researcher to know the study effectively (Hsu and Lin, 2016).
Literature review
The literature review is effective in comprehending the study issue. This section critically
evaluates the study issues. The data of the literature review is collected by considering
articles, books, journals, and articles. It is examined that the researcher will also facilitate to

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examine the data by entailing articles, books, journal articles, and online sources. It is
effective for the attainment of the research task.
Research methodology
This one is the third section of the study that will be practiced by the researcher to select
suitable information towards the research matter. There are different factors that might be
considered by the research scholar named research approaches, types of the study, data
collection, data analysis, data sources, sampling size and sampling method, and ethical
consideration. It is addressed that each factor plays an imperative role in obtaining the data in
favor of the research matter (Raut, et al., 2017).
Data Analysis and findings
In this section, the collected data will be evaluated by considering different sources as it
could be known as the statistical and non-statistical tool. The statistical tool considers the Ms-
Excel to evaluate the data while the non-statistical method will consider the literature review
the examined the data. The data will be presented by considering graphs, charts, and table and
the collected opinion of the participants will be supported by the literature review. Thus, it
founded that this tool could offer a way by which the investigator will research at the reliable
conclusion (Sallehudin, et al., 2015).
Conclusion and recommendation
This one is the last section of this study, this method will facilitate the investigator for
concluding the overall summary of the study. It will be effective in the attainment of the
research task. It is also evaluated that this section is more effective as compared to another
method. It will lead to comprehending the overall study in the least time (Sallehudin, et al.,
2015).
Research problem and research objectives

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Aim of the research is to study the impact made by cloud accounting on small businesses in
Australia. The following objectives will be accomplished by research to attain the aim of the
research study
 Measure the effectiveness and efficiency of cloud accounting in a small business in
Australia.
 To determine the limits of cloud accounting on small business in Australia.
 To understand the impact of cloud accounting on small business in Australia.
 To understand the challenges of cloud accounting in a small business in Australia.
Research questions
 Is Cloud base accounting user-friendly and fulfill the requirement of safety?
 How can cloud accounting help to grow regarding efficiency and effectiveness?
 Usage of cloud accounting and practices.
 What is the cost of cloud base accounting?

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Literature review
The literature review section is essential to critically evaluate the impact of cloud computing
on the small business of Australia. The data of this section has been collected by entailing
many sources, as it could be known as the articles, journal, books, magazines, online, and
offline sources. It could also be effective for getting a favorable result in favor of the research
matter. This section could critically evaluate the benefits as well as challenges of cloud
computing in the small business. It also evaluates how cloud computing is essential in the
small business of Australia.
Impact of cloud base accounting on small business in Australia
According to Whitney (2014), Cloud computing is on-demand availability of the computer
system resources majorly in the computing power and the storage of data without the direct
active management by the users. It is considered as the delivery of the computing services
that include storage, intelligence, analytics, software, networking, and many others. The
cloud base is used in the accounting system for the small business that is present in the
Australia market.
Considering the views of Anon (2016) the cloud accounting software offers the users a way
through which they can access the data from anywhere with an internet connection to the
small business present in the Australian market. This allows the employees of the small
business to work from wherever they want to do. Contracting this Wu (2016) stated that
cloud base accounting is beneficial for the small business not because of the easy
accessibility but because of the speedy processing of the information as well relatively easy
access to information. This has been found that most of the decision makers generally depend
on the data that is formed on a timely basis that is possible with the cloud base accounting as
it offers the proper data to the manager.

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As per the view of Anon (2014) cloud base accounting leads to the reduction in the overhead
cost because it works as a service function that adds the cost of overhead for running a
business and the main cost that is linked with the cost of hiring personnel with the excellent
skills sets. In addition, the research shows that it leads to improvement in the overall
efficiency of the organization, as it is possible due to the fast decision making which is
possible with the help of the cloud base accounting. In addition, Wu (2016) presented the
views, in which it was found that the use of cloud base accounting offers the advanced
features advantages to the small business, as they do not have to struggle a lot to get the new
and systematic features through which they can easily manage their data. In addition, cloud
accounting reduces the burden of the small business for keeping their accounting software
updated on a regular basis for personal use.
Considering the view of Kotey and Sorensen, (2014) it has been found that most of the
potential drawbacks of the cloud computing occur from the fact that the small business might
not be ready in order to handle the consequences of over-reliance related to the business
technology. The major limitation of the cloud base accounting is the potential loss of the data
is sensitive. The damage of the cloud base accounting is the fact that control due to the
technically lost. The lost in the control of the company for the data will lead to the loss of
essential information.
Contrasting this Attaran and Woods, (2018) depicts that most of the accounting vendors
operate their business in the cloud from the jurisdiction in which the laws are meaningfully
different from the one that operates the business in the home country of the client company.
In addition to this, another issue that is related to cloud base accounting is a poor internet
connection. The smooth operation of the small business is entirely dependent on the internet.
Thus, every company needs to ensure that they have an internet connection with the back up
so that they can keep going with these operations.

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According to the Attaran and Woods, (2018) most of the cloud computing services the small
business can scale their resources comfortably due to which they do not have to invest the
much amount in the infrastructure and services and thus the small business can easily earn the
profit in the market. In the market, the company invests the amount when the product and
services are demanded by the customers. The cloud accounting helps the business to make
the investment and cost-efficient for the small business that makes them try the new business
strategies. It has been found in the research that in the competitive marketing not only cloud
accounting helps in reducing the cost of maintenance but it also effectively utilized to bring
the unique customer schemes that might be beneficial for the small business.
In the opinion of the Mohammed and Burhanuddin, (2018) cloud base accounting offers the
advantage to the companies through which they can analyze the results on the real-time basis
that is essential for the business as this can help them in reducing the additional cost to the
business. On the other side, Dordevic, Radovic and Bonic, (2018) stated that financial data
has been done on a real-time basis that improves the operations as well as the performance of
the small business. This improvement in the performance is essential for future success and
opportunities for expanding the business operations in the market. Thus, this shows the
positive effect of the cloud base accounting on the business.
Contrasting this Islam, Manivannan, and Zeadally, (2016) illustrated that, it has been found
that when cloud accounting offers numerous services it also has the negative side of it which
include the issues related to the clutter as well as the security issues. Thus, this means that
cloud accounting not only have a positive effect but it also has a negative effect on the small
business in the Australian market. In addition to this, agreeing to fact Rittinghouse and
Ransome, 2016, said that cloud accounting leads to different issues it has been found that the
professional in accounting need to be aware of the cloud base accounting as this will help
them to be appointed in the small businesses in Australia. Similarly, the small businesses

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need to hire the employee who knows about the cloud base accounting. For this, they need to
pay the additional amount to the labors that will lead to an increase in the cost of the small
business.
Agreeing to this Dimitriu and Matei, 2015, stated that the cost of the small business increase
because they need to offer the training to their existing employees about cloud computing in
accounting. Thus, this training will increase the cost of a small business. However, later on,
they will get a high benefit in the near future due to which this is considered as the
investment for the small business.
In the present environment, Aman and Mohamed, 2018, illustrated that one of the challenges
related to the companies as well as the enterprises are facing today due to the lack of
expertise as well as the resources. Presently, the organizations are increasing with the more
workloads majorly on the cloud technologies in the small business. This increasing workload
leads to the issues of cloud accounting in the Australian market. In the research, it has been
found that the increasing workload among the small business makes them find the cloud
specialist in their IT teams so that they can manage and keep the technology updated.
Agreeing to the fact, the George and Nazeh, 2019 presented the views related to the
challenges that the business move to the cloud as it becomes dependent for their services. The
decision of the business is depended on the cloud base accounting due to which the small
business needs to wait and this lead to a delay in the decision which is required to be taken by
the company. This delay will lead to an impact on the position of the business due to which
this is considered as one of the major challenges.

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Research methodology
In the research methodology, many sections will be entailed by the investigator as it leads to
meet the aim of the study. These methods could be associated with certain elements like types
of research, research approaches, types of data, sources of data, and sampling method. These
are discussed below:
Types of research (exploratory, descriptive or causal)
In the research methodology section, it is stated that different types of methods are
considered in research approaches named exploratory, causal, and descriptive method. In this,
the researcher has entailed the descriptive method as compared to the exploratory and causal
method. This method is effective in evaluating the relationship between variables
(Priyadarshinee, et al., 2017). It will enable to the scholar for making a reliable decision in
the context of the organizational issue. Apart from this, it is founded that causal method could
be practiced to examine the cause of an effective relationship. It is examined that the
exploratory method is imperative to get fresh information. In this, research needed to
discover the depth information towards the research matter in which the descriptive method
has been more effective as compared to another method (Kumar, et al., 2015).
research approach (quantitative, qualitative or mixed approach)
In the methodology section, three kinds of approaches could be employed as it is known as
the qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approach. This study is subjective in nature hence the
qualitative research design method will be practiced as it could enable to obtain the non-
numerical data by existing sources and provide a path to the investigator to meet the aim of
the study (Dimitriu and Matei, 2015).
It will also assist to complete the task in available resources as well as available time. Thus,
it is founded that this method will be more appropriate as compared to another method.

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Qualitative research design is a mechanical approach which entails different research tools
and is relied on the subjective nature. It assists the researcher to gain depth understanding
about the research study in detail and also based on the beliefs, opinion, and language. The
qualitative research design also evaluated the causes and reason for decision making rather
than assessing which place, at what time, and who will conduct. This research design is also
an effective strategy for social research scholar, market research scholar, and organization. It
is a prominent tool for analyzing the research matter. In addition, qualitative research design
consists of various methods that are observation method, survey through questionnaire
method, interview method and focus group (Ali, et al., 2015).
In order to this, it is also analyzed that observation of research participants is imperative to
accumulate the data in the context of current research concern. Further, under the interview
method, individual experience, perspectives, and history of research participants along with
their personal and sensitive information are pooled by the research scholar (Ooi, et al., 2018).
It is evaluated that in the focus group method, collected data is represented as per the cultural
rules and regulation of a large number of people and developed a broader overview of
research problems related to cultural and subcultural groups. In opposed to this, quantitative
research design considers the proceeding level according to the figures and facts related to the
research concern. In this research design, research questions are started with how many and
how often. This is a scientific approach that is used to simplify the complicated information
related to the research issue. Moreover, the mixed research design is an important technique
for the research scholar because it incorporates unique characteristics of both research design
qualitative and quantitative research design (Al-Sharafi, et al., 2017).
Research scholar could anticipate the attained data and assess the gathered data by using
statistics tool. This method is also profitable for achieving the research result without any
biases which could be applicable for the larger group of respondents. This is the key purpose

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of quantitative research design that it aids in analyzing the connection between a dependent
variable and an independent variable of a group of people (Vidhyalakshmi and Kumar, 2016).
Quantitative research design could be of certain types such as experimental and described
that is used in the dissertation. In order to this, it is also analyzed that experimental research
design determines the causality whereas a descriptive research study only builds association
among different variables. It is stated that Qualitative research design is based on pooling the
non-numerical concepts along with the empirical understanding with respect to the research
concern. Hence, this design also enables the research scholar to eliminate the limitations and
barriers that have arisen during the research study (Brandas, et al., 2016). It is evaluated that
mixed method could quite be costly as well as time-consuming which will affect the overall
outcome of the research. In addition, it is evaluated that the mixed research design has
selected by the research scholar to accomplish the investigation in targeted time duration
because this design considers unique features of both research design qualitative and
quantitative research design. In such a way, responses of research candidates are assessed by
effectively using quantitative research design. Due to the complicated process of the study,
the researcher will not give the priority to this method as compared to the qualitative method
(Harfoushi, et al., 2016).
Type of data (primary or secondary data)
In the research, both primary and secondary data collection method is considered as it
supports to get the research outcome. The primary data collection tool is practiced to get
reliable information about the research issue. The secondary data collection method is
practiced by the researcher for meeting the aim of the team. It is evaluated that the secondary
data is the research of another investigator that is practiced to get the information towards the
research matter. In this research study, the investigator has given the equal opportunity to
both primary as well as secondary data collection tool (El-Gazzar, et al., 2016). This tool is

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effective in the attainment of the research task. In addition, it is examined that the primary
data collection tool is practiced to obtain numerical information while the secondary data is
obtained by entailing the theoretical information towards the research issue. It is examined
that the primary data collection is leading to obtain a reliable result. It is illustrated that
secondary data could be quite costly but this tool is imperative for providing a way to the
participants to meet the research candidates in the attainment in meeting the aim of the study
(Gutierrez, et al., 2015).
data will be collected (interview, focus group or observation for qualitative research,
and/or survey and experiment for quantitative research)
The data will be collected by considering various sources, as it could be associated with the
primary data sources and secondary data sources. For conducting this study, the research
scholar has practiced the interview method by which the researcher will be capable to directly
meet with their respondents and meet the aim of the study (Adam and Musah, 2015). In this,
the specified participants will share their actual opinion and views towards the research issue.
The interview method is also lead to the investigator for mitigating possibilities of obtaining
unauthorized data towards the research issue. It is examined that secondary data collection
sources will be practiced by the researcher to meet the aim of the study. Before selecting the
suitable source of data collection, the researcher will deeply evaluate the importance of the
method and then select the sources to imply in the study and meet at the reliable conclusion
(Lal and Bharadwaj, 2016).
Describe and justify the sample (sampling frame, sampling methods, and technique)
Sampling is a tool that facilitates an effective way of getting a favorable result in the favor of
the research matter. It is stated that there are many methods that could be used by the
investigator but due to the cost and time researcher will evaluate the importance of both
methods before selecting it for the study (Ross and Blumenstein, 2015). These methods were

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known as the probability simple random sampling tool and non-probability convince
sampling tool. These method has unique features to each other and plays an imperative role in
the attainment of the research goal. For conducting this study, non-probability convince
sampling tool will be practiced as it allows to select participants on the basis of age, gender,
education, and experience for conducting the study and meet the research matter (Gangwar,
et al., 2015). The probability sampling tool will cost as well as time-consuming hence this
method will not be considered by the researcher. For conducting this study, five managers of
small business have been selected as they would be able to give their opinion with respect to
the current matter.
Data Analysis
The data will be evaluated by considering the literature review as well as Ms-excel software.
The statistical tool will be practiced to examine the numerical information while theoretical
information will be deeply evaluated by the literature review method (Cleary and Quinn,
2016).
Ethical consideration
The researcher will use the ethical norms and practice suitable code of conduct in the study.
The researcher will inform the prior information to the research candidates about the research
time, and other essential information for conducting the study in an effective manner. It is
also evaluated that from the application of ethical norms, the researcher will assure that their
study will not harm to the society, environment, and animals (Opara-Martins, et al., 2016).

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Appendix
Application for Ethics Approval
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Topic: Impact of cloud computing on the small business enterprises, Australia
Summary of the proposed research project, including a brief description of the
methodology (bullet points where applicable)
 The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cloud accounting in the small business of
Australia.
 This study discusses the creation section which could be an essential part of the research
named introduction, literature review, and research methodology.

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 In this study, the qualitative method will be practiced that aids to get the theoretical data.
 This study will be conducted on the 5 managers of small enterprises of Austral by
entailing the non-probability connivance sampling method.
 In this, both primary and secondary data collection method has been practiced to get the
information towards the research issue.
Ethics Checklist (Participants)
How do you propose to select your participants?
 Convince the sampling tool will be implied to get the data and conduct the study.
 This method is a source of non- probability sampling tool
 The Participants will be selected by considering the non-probability with convincing
sampling tool
Will your research involve adults who might be identified by you or anyone else reading the
research? (Yes/No). If yes, how will you obtain their consent?
No
Does your research involve children under eighteen years old? (Yes/No)
No
Ethics Checklist (Participants)
Will, your research takes place in an institution? (Yes/No)
No

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Are in a position of power over participants? (Yes/No), if yes, describe any ethical
implication a dhow you deal with them
No
Describe any risk or harm to participants which might be associated with your research and
how would you propose to minimize these risks
 Convince sampling tool will be implied to get the data and conduct the study as it allows
to select the participants on the basis of convincing
 The interviews method facilitates to conduct the study by taking the confirmation to the
managers of small business
 An ethical form will be assured that their study will not be harmful to others.
 In this, ethical norms will be considered to eliminate the risk from the study
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Privacy and Confidentiality
How will you protect the confidentiality and privacy of your participants?
 The data protection act 1988 would be practiced by the researcher as its mandates to the
investigator to secure the confidential data of the participants and conduct suitable
behavior with the research candidates.
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Will it be possible to identify participants from published data? (Yes/No), if yes, is there any
ethical issue which may arise from such identification.
No
Data Collection and Storage
Who will have access to the data?

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 both primary and secondary data collection method has been practiced to get the
information towards the research issue
 .These method allows getting the factual as well as theoretical data in the favor of
research matter.
How will you store the data in order to ensure its security
All the data will be practiced as well as the outcome will be published with the lack of any
biases. The quality will be maintained in this study.
All interpretation will be used and results will be published without any personal biases as