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DESIGN OF TOTAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AS A KEY TOOL IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Information is one of the main sources of power in our era; hence it is called the age of information. Alongside, the strengthening of the role of information, the management - recently referred to as the art of recognition of the environment and resources - has withnessed ever-increasing development. Since an accounting system consists of the major part of information and is a vital tool of exercising management, is of mutual importance. As the companies grow and their financial activitice, increases the managers need to receive a large sum of financial reports, prepared carefully, rightly and in time. No doubt, the traditional manual methods of accounting cannot meet the new informational reqirements, and there is no other choice than new computerized accounting systems. The aim of present research is to provide a total accounting system to be used in any company with any scale and kind of activity. Moreover, it is devised in such a manner to be able to absorb all the former financial information of the due company. This package uses Access 2000 and runs under Windows 98 and above, as the operating system. The report has first introduced the principles of the databases and then has described the methodology of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Then, the accounting system is designed so far as to present the final table structures. And accordingly it is implemented to provide the due accounting package. Finally, through a short review of the research, a few suggestions for future development of the package are presented.