Question

Review of Current Accounting Issues

In your accounting career you will be required to analyse current accounting issues and communicate your theoretical understanding to your professional colleagues and your clients. For this assignment assume that you are the senior accountant working for a major firm.

Question (1,500 words)

The CEO has forwarded to you an interesting article and requires you to provide her with a deeper theoretical understanding of the issues discussed so that she can fully engage in the lively discourse at an upcoming conference.

You are required to find a newspaper article or web page report of an item of accounting news, i.e. it refers to a current event, consideration, comment or decision that has been published after the 1st of January 2018. Your article could also come from one of the professional journals. The article should not come from an academic journal. Academic journals generally do not contain news articles or articles of less than one page and are usually only published 2 or 4 times a year. If you are having a problem ensuring that your article is from an appropriate source contact your subject coordinator.

You then need to explain the article that you have found in your own words and clearly relate the concepts, ideas and facts within the article to one or more of the theories or topics that you have studied this session. Support your analysis of the assumptions and implications of the topic or theory as appropriate with reference to sources in APA 6 style. For example, this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in April 2016 could be linked to the topics of accounting regulation and measurement (and perhaps others). You must provide a copy of the article or web page, with details of the source, date and page number with your answer.

(News, Issues Need to be searched on internet)(And link of the article needs to be inserted)

Answer 1

THIS IS ABOUT MIS SHORTAGES IN ORGANIZATIONS

SPCIFICALLY IN SCHOOLS

ARTICLE:    https://americanenglish.state.gov/

PROPOSAL TO FILL THE INFORMATION GAPS

It was investigated as to why changes that occurred in the organization as a result of the implementation of an SMS during the period of early adoption was a failure. The period known in the IT field as “redefining/restructuring” stage of implementation is crucial. The specific question to ask is: “Does the implementation of a school management information system create conditions for change in a school’s social/ technical subsystems?” If this is not a serious agenda then its success is doubtful. Also frequent training opportunities for faculty and staff to help reduce uncertainty associated with the SMS is a must. Also after implementing the SMS, changes planned and unanticipated have taken place.

Once successful implementation is reached, and a majority of the school’s teaching staff is utilizing the data that these systems provide, more appropriate instructional planning and decision-making can occur, ultimately leading to increased student achievement and accountability. The problem appears to be that teacher training is not adequate and as a result interpretation and analyze of data is not possible. Also the data from SMS is not easy to access, is often in forms that are not easy to understand, a limited number of persons knowledgeable enough to work with data are present in schools, or teachers do not even know the data exists.   

“With effective data tools, teachers and administrators can pinpoint which students are meeting-or falling short of learning objectives, and what strategies will help each learner succeed. Educators need tools that get data directly into their hands and ease the process of interpreting data.” is the message conveyed by the successful users of the system. In the United States implementation of these systems continues to increase. With the continued emphasis on school accountability, educational institutions will continue to spend large sums of money implementing SMS. Thus it is been proposed that the teachers have make efforts at ‘free’ times to attend school on weekends/ holidays so that the SMS is introduced properly. Also the computer vendor is to prepare an additional component to incorporate the ‘morning registration’ so that any unauthorized absences, sick child and trips from school are recorded correctly.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

The school, as a social/ technical organization, is made of subsystems. The human, sub system comprising of the Deputies, teachers, administrators, and support staff who are typically engaged in the tasks such as delivery of instruction, development of curriculum, and evaluation of student progress have to take up the challenge to ensure the smooth running of the new system. The school has to perform these tasks, and this requires a proper structure. It is this structure that gives the school systems the proper order. Structure helps to define roles for its staff establishing patterns of authority. Thus without the structure, the patterns and channels of communication networks will not flow, and therefore, decision-making will continue to be cloudy. Last but not least the school must also have sufficient technological resources to complete tasks and achieve goals. These may be hardware and software, textbooks, magic boards, electronic microscopes, etc. It may also include program inventions, procedures, sequencing of activities, and other inventions designed to solve problems that may stand in the way of organizational success.