The similarities and differences between traditional accounting and online accounting, and the development trends of online accounting

The so-called online accounting refers to the accounting activities of confirming, measuring and disclosing various transactions and events in the Internet environment. It is an important part of e-commerce.

It will help enterprises realize remote processing of financial and business collaborative remote reporting, reimbursement, auditing, and auditing, dynamic accounting and online financial management during the event, support electronic documents and electronic money, and change the way financial information is obtained and utilized.

1. Advantages of Internet Accounting The development of the Internet has provided all-round and maximum information support for accounting information systems.

It uses a series of Internet technologies to establish enterprise management information systems and recombines them through network connections. The result is that more and more various data that accounting needs to process are directly stored in computer networks in electronic form.

Online accounting information has the following advantages over traditional accounting processing: 1. Accounting information is provided more timely. With the advent of the era of knowledge economy, the current periodic financial reporting system cannot meet the timeliness requirements of external accounting information users and managers.

Online accounting realizes the function of real-time tracking, which can dynamically track every business change of the enterprise and provide necessary disclosures.

2. Accounting information disclosure is more comprehensive. Users of accounting information require accounting information that comprehensively and accurately reflects the financial status and operating results of the enterprise. Regardless of the accounting financial status that is beneficial to the enterprise, or the accounting information that is unfavorable to the enterprise, all accounting information should be disclosed, so as to

Provide the public with a comprehensive understanding of the financial status of the company.

3. Acquisition of accounting information is more targeted. The computer network has inherent advantages over other media because the network creates conditions for timely communication between information providers and users.

The human-computer dialogue provided by the computer network has changed the previous situation where users of accounting information passively accepted a unified format, making the information acquisition process interactive.

In a computer network, users can obtain relevant accounting information according to their own needs and further process this information.

4. Flat management structure. The management structure of modern enterprises is mostly a "pyramid" model. When the amount of economic activities of enterprises has greatly increased, and various flows including capital flow, information flow and logistics have greatly accelerated, this traditional

The pyramid-like hierarchy inhibits the company's rapid response and decision-making capabilities, and is not conducive to the company's ability to retain its competitiveness.

In the network environment, the enterprise's organizational structure becomes an automatic network system, which integrates some small, self-employed teams for real-time management.