Erp System Environment, Accounting Issues Related To Research

Following the coming of the era of knowledge economy, it's not advantageous for an enterprise to compete in the market based solely on its internal resources. The enterprise must take into considerations all the parties, such as suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, customers, when constituting a close supplying chain in order to arrange activities of producing, supplying and selling effectively and satisfy the needs for efficient production & operations utilizing all the market resources. Managing the entire supplying chain of the enterprise has been turned into reality by the Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system, which is advantageous for the enterprise's competition in the modern economy.ERP is a system of planning the enterprise's resources with financial accounting management at the core. It is characterized by having a unique data source, real-time sharing, multiple query, etc., by means of integrating flows of materials, funds and information. Owing to good services provided by it, ERP plays a more important role in enterprise management activities.ERP provides conditions for bettering management of the entire process of operating activities by changing the way of obtaining accounting information. It takes the accounting management process into the Management Information System, which connects each sub-process of the accounting management process with outside for information exchanges. Therefore, all accounting methods may be embodied in every business department for an efficient control of the enterprise.The new economic environment brings opportunities for innovations on theory and practice of accounting management. This dissertation makes a study on the accounting problems in the ERP environment.The first part makes an introduction to the status quo of ERP overseas and domestically, and explains the implementation and application of ERP in enterprises with a case study on Metersbone Corp's ERP.The second part makes analyses on the optimization of the accounting and financial management by ERP, the reform for the accountants and the influence on accountants by ERP.The third part analyzes the necessity of integrating accounting and ERP and makes discussions on how to integrate accounting & ERP. Several advices are also provided.The fourth part summarizes the implications and characteristics of Accounting Business Process Reengineering (BPR) firstly, and makes analyses on the importance of BPR and how to implement BPR. Solution to BPR is also given.