Dieter Fink and Ken Stevens (sitting) of the ANU’s Department of Commerce, who have been awarded a research grant by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia to look at unsatisfactory features in financial management software and their resulting bad practices. With them (both standing) are ICAA executive director Stephen Harrison and president Peter Jollie.
The award of $4000 will help the researchers look at the most common financial and management accounting software used in Australia to be followed by a survey of major accounting firms.
The new hand-held Telxon hand-held wireless pen computer, that can send information back to a host computer by modem, cellular radio or wide-area network.
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