Discuss what you believe to be the appropriate level of involvement of an accountant in evaluating and selecting an AIS vendor and the AIS itself. What are some of the contributions an accountant might offer in this process?

 

AIS is the subsystem of an available management information system that offers information to a company in a suitable format, within the budget, right size, and time frame (Lois et al., 2017). Besides, AIS facilitates decision-making within a company and must be tailored to a company environment, requirements of the job, and structure. Therefore, I believe an accountant should be involved in the system audit and system designing (Lois et al., 2017). This is because accountants play a vital role in system development, making them liable for many features of the conceptual system. Furthermore, accountants are responsible for performing audits of companies or business enterprises. However, accountants must understand how AIS works and internal controls (Fullana & Ruiz, 2021).

Accountants offer several contributions in AIS. For instance, accountants are the main facilitators in the design of the AIS. They are the most equipped and suitable information measurement experts in designing the Accounting Information System (Robalo & Moreira, 2020). Besides, it is the responsibility of the accountants to ensure that the information system designed is implemented (Lois et al., 2017). Furthermore, it is not adequate to have techniques put in place without implementation and enforcement (Fullana & Ruiz, 2021). Therefore, the accountants are involved in the system's implementation process since they may discover problems that non-accountants may find challenging to communicate back to AIS designers (Robalo & Moreira, 2020).

Additionally, accountants audit the previously acclaimed AIS to ensure that what was claimed to have been implemented was followed. Accountants provide that the guidelines claimed to be observed backed up by certification (Lois et al., 2017). Accountants are also the users of the AIS since they are the first individuals to live by example for other people to follow. Furthermore, as accountants get more involved in the general decision-making in the organization angle, many accountants are currently categorized as system users (Robalo & Moreira, 2020). Accountants use the AIS to process and yield accounting information like financial statements. Besides, accountants depend on their knowledge of the accounting information system to make a quality key analysis of financial information while acting as investment accountants and financial planners ((Robalo & Moreira, 2020).