Abstract
This chapter discusses data processing. The first widespread use of the computer was in business. The manipulation of numbers, when used in reference to computers, is called data processing. In the business world, this was keeping accounting books and inventory lists. The focus of such tasks is accountability, or maintaining a record of what has been done. Accountability is a word that has steadily crept into the everyday vernacular of the profession. The chapter discusses two major categories of data processing, namely, electronic spreadsheets and electronic file management systems. Both the concepts of data processing have been thoroughly tested and have histories dating back to the beginning of business per se. The computer does not so much change the system, as it makes the system more efficient to use through the electronic manipulation of information. It concludes that as society in general moves forward into the information age, professions will find it necessary to have means of obtaining, processing, and interpreting data. The computer neither change the data, nor determine what changes will be needed in a profession. It is merely a vehicle which permits the accumulation and organization of data on a scale that has never been possible before.
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