Benefits of Adopting an REA
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The document provides advantages of REA over traditional accounting process, discusses ERP implementation, internal controls and role of CAAT in auditing.
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The REA approach gives a different view of accounting by creating a central database. The key elements of REA model are resources, events and agents (Hall, 2004).
Resources: These are assets possessed by an organization
Events: These are economic phenomenon which has an impact on resources
Agents: These are individuals that participate in an economic event
In the traditional approach, accounting remains an independent and non-integrated process because it is not compatible with non-accounting decision making. Also, there is an inability to serve diverse enterprise-wide needs through traditional approach.
On the other hand, REA accounting model is a part of enterprise database system and supports enterprise-wide planning. It encompasses both operational and accounting transactions, thereby expanding the scope and usefulness of accounting information system to provide both financial and non-financial information. Outputs from REA are subsequently produced by assembling the data required from various sources which means that output is more useful for decision making.
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Enterprise Resource Planning systems integrate different processes of an organization so that a single system can serve the information needs of all functional areas (Hall, 2004). Key ...
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