Use by Non Accountants

With the increasing dominance of having financial accounts prepared with Accounting Software, as well as some suppliers claims that anyone can prepare their own books. An area of concern going forward is that of non-accountants producing what they believe to be accurate statutory financial records when the reality may be that they have little understanding of the underlying transactions the package is recording.

These developments have led to an added importance in the role of Systems Accountants. They look at the integrity of the reporting process of the automated accountancy systems and software. As the basic recording and interpretation is left to software and expert systems, the necessity to have a Systems Accountant overseeing the accountancy system becomes ever more important. The set up of the processes and the end result must be vigorously checked and maintained on a regular basis. In order to develop and maintain the integrity of the data and the processes that manages this data.