Abstract
Abstract Background: Enterprises are entering into the era of the real-time economy, also called the “now economy”, which can be characterized by a substantive acceleration of business measurement, assessment and decision processes. The real-time reporting, as a phenomenon of the now economy, presents a new challenge to the Accounting Information Systems. The current long wave of prosperity is characterized by an innovative momentum of ICT, with several disruptive innovations, far from being completely utilized. Objectives: Possible future potentialities and consequences of this innovative momentum of ICT on the real-time reporting are analysed within a network scenario approach. Methods/Approach: The used approach is the Futures Wheel, a structured brainstorming method that structures ideas about future events, issues, trends, and strategy, organised under several layers of rings of consequences. Results: The innovative momentum has certain visible direct consequences such as smart mobile devices, higher business intelligence, improved enterprise architecture and enterprise application integration, cloud services offer or increased business process maturity in organizations, and a significant number of indirect consequences on the real-time accounting. Conclusions: The actual innovative momentum of ICT has a vast set of indirect opportunities for the real-time reporting which, after a proper plan, can address its implementation.
Highlights
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is quickly and continuously changing how people and enterprises relate to each other
Enterprises are entering a new era, the era of the real-time enterprises and real-time economy called the “ economy”, which can be characterized by a substantive acceleration of business measurement, assessment and decision processes (Vasarhelyi and Alles, 2008) all of this supported by a new wave of ICT
Professional investors believe that real-time reporting from enterprises allows them to better understand corporate performance and to be more confident on corporate governance, which increases the likelihood of those enterprises to attract more investment from institutions (ACCA, 2013)
Summary
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is quickly and continuously changing how people and enterprises relate to each other. Enterprises are entering a new era, the era of the real-time enterprises and real-time economy called the “ economy”, which can be characterized by a substantive acceleration of business measurement, assessment and decision processes (Vasarhelyi and Alles, 2008) all of this supported by a new wave of ICT. This paper presents a structured brainstorming, based on existing literature review and on most prominent ongoing developments, advances, and innovations in various fields of modern ICT, with the objective of thinking about future possible issues, potentialities, trends, and strategy about real-time reporting in the accounting domain. The following two sections present the used research methodology, the futures wheel, and the results, basically a network of scenarios with the consequences of this innovative momentum on the real-time accounting. Enterprises are entering into the era of the real-time economy, called the “ economy”, which can be characterized by a substantive acceleration of business measurement, assessment and decision processes.
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