Impact of Accounting Information System on Organizational Performance

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Objective of the project...................................................................................................................2
Project scope....................................................................................................................................3
Research Hypothesis........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................4
Accounting information system (AIS).........................................................................................4
Impact of AIS on the performance of the organization...............................................................6
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The present research aims to investigate the impact of Accounting Information System
(AIS) on the performance of the organization. AIS refers to the tool that when integrated into the
area of information and technology system facilitates the management as well as control of
topics in relation to economic – financial field of the enterprise (Hall 2012). But the increasing
advancement of technology has generally opened up possibility of utilizing AIS in the enterprise.
For bettering understanding the term AIS, the words should be illustrated separately. Firstly.,
accounting can be recognized into three main components that includes- financial data source,
language of the businesses. Secondly, information refers to valuable processing of data that gives
the basis for decision making. Thirdly, System refers to an integrated firm where the structure
focuses on the set of business objectives. The utilization of AIS effectiveness is huge spread of
the information needed by several users of organization.AIS has been vital to the enterprise
operations, either profit or non- profit oriented enterprise requires to maintain this. It has the
impact on the business decision making and also assists administrative coordination in the
enterprise. In addition, an AIS relates to those components that are basically put together for
gathering raw data, information and then transform this into financial data for the objective to
report them to the decision makers (Simkin, Norman and Rose 2014). This study basically
analyses on the relationship between the AIS and the performance of organization. Furthermore,
this study will also explore about the evidence that the enterprise culture facilitates to improve
performance by interrelating with data quality, system quality and information quality.

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Objective of the project
The general purpose of this project is to assess the effect of AIS on the performance of an
entity. Moreover, the other objectives also involves-
 Examine the effect of AIS on the efficiency of management in the specified business
 Assess the effect of AIS on the effective control of business in small and medium
enterprises( SMEs)
 Investigate whether integration of AIS improves the efficiency of the workers and
enhances productivity
 Explore whether adoption of AIS helps to gather more information for the businesses that
operates in the global market.
Project scope
The research of this project ahs further scope of providing more information or data to
the enterprises that strategizes to integrate this tool in their business. As effective as well as
efficient management of each enterprise is generally anchored on the quality decisions, this
project will help the management of the enterprise to understand the significance of this tool
within their operations. In addition to this, this study will however explore about the fact that
leveraging of AIS within the business helps to compete in the present complex as well as flexible
business environment and thereby provides the enterprises huge scope to expand the business
globally. Furthermore, it also helps the enterprises to understand the requirement of information
for different purposes and also concentrate on various accounting tools for supporting their
business operations. The findings of this project will provide the businesses with some facts
about the need of AIS within the business operation.