An indispensable alliance for a Visionary Management
Approximately 5000 years ago, when the abacus was invented, its enormous importance in future communications was perhaps not appreciated. The abacus, which still exists today teaching and entertaining, was the basis of a chain of contributions that unleashed in the computer that we know today and that is an essential tool to generate and process accounting information, so vital for today's administrator and the company of tomorrow.
But let's see how it was, succinctly, the development of the first adding machines to become today's computer… Leonardo Da Vinci left designs of an adding machine and ideas that later, others such as Pascal, Babbage, and many others, were transforming and rapidly developing towards computing. Already in the 20th century, the International Business Machines Corporation, known worldwide as IBM, developed in 1,924 electronic accounting machines.
Officially, the invention of the electronic digital computer was attributed to John V. Atanasoff, who with the support of a student, created the computer "Atanasoff-Berry Computer" (ABC), in 1942.
The Second World War left as a great legacy the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), a device that weighed 30 tons and occupied a space of 450 square meters, and which had to be programmed monthly.
The first generations of computers followed which, thanks to the ingenuity of many and the risk assumed by several companies, were perfected in structures and services, until they reached microminiaturization: the chips, which today universally support current computing.
We cannot conceive these days how to develop an administrative information system without having the support of the computer. This tool has become essential for a professional: the Business Administrator, who needs information to support key decisions of an organization.
For the management of data that support administrative decisions, such as the control of inventories, portfolio, costs, payroll and many specific aspects of a company, the computer appears as the great ally of the administration, in such a way, that if by magic or we do not know what, if all these artifacts disappeared, the Administrator together with the Accountant would inexorably return to the happy abacus. Let it not be so.
Perspectives of administrative information:
Systems are already indispensable in the field of ADMINISTRATION, particularly in activities that require professional talent to analyze financial information projected into the future and make the most appropriate decisions for the organization. This entails the responsibility of the study plans in higher education to give it the emphasis required by the SYSTEMS area, especially in Business Administration.
The use of the computer will always mean important advantages for administrative management. To highlight the following:
(1) Reduction of analysis and business decision-making times,
(2) Preservation of the company's history,
(3) Formation of an information platform,
(4) Increased database management capacity,
(5) Increase in the quality of the work of both the private and public Administrator and therefore of the management teams,
(6) Improvement of the work environment in the organization, and
(7) Improvement of the profiles of the administrative staff.
Given the above, the Accounting-Systems relationship points towards a perfect marriage for Managers and Executives who perceive the importance of information: clear, understandable, pertinent, reliable, and especially: timely, to generate spaces for analysis and foundations for the best business decisions.
Tomorrow's manager will succeed by mastering today's systems. New competencies urgently develop the new manager in such a way that his performance capacity responds accordingly to the challenges of precision, agility, and quality, which the internal and external clients of tomorrow will be demanding.
