The Business Requirements Of A Cost Accounting System
It has become evident that in this period of time a cost accounting system is necessary to the operations of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The lack of such a system has lead to the inability of effectively determining the profitability, total cost, cost components, and effectiveness of strategic initiatives on medical procedures and practices. This need will be filled by the utilization of software specifically aimed at cost accounting.
The following will describe business requirements for obtaining and implementing this cost accounting system. Several questions will be raised to bring light to the needs of the organization. Issues to be discussed will include software and hardware compatibility, report management, user-friendliness of the system, system maintenance and support, and budgetary decisions.
The first question to be considered is what the company is looking to measure, and
Compatibility of the software with the current operating system used by the organization is very important. The program should be made specifically for the operating system to ensure compatibility. One question that should be asked when trying to identify software is if it has been used with the current operating system? Another deciding factor is how easily the software will integrate with other software programs so that reports can be generated. Software compatibility is not the only potential problem.
Decisions need to be made on the hardware as well. Will the current hardware be capable of handling the new software? If not, can an upgrade such as more memory fill this need or will a new computer system be necessary? Will special cards need to be installed into the current hardware to accommodate the new software?
what software is available today that will fill this need. Once these sim