Date: Tuesday 14th March 2006 6:00pm - 8:30pm You may arrive as early as 6:00 to network but the kcafe will not start until 6:30. We will go for a drink in a local pub after the event.
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Theme: Will accountants have any role in accounting information in the future?
Description
Traditional bookkeeping developed at the point where the growth of trade demanded a move beyond basic record keeping to the record keeping needed for agricultural and family businesses.
It was evolved in the 19th Century due to the industrial revolution and accelerated through its professionalisation.
The 20th Century saw the conversion of accounting information from analogue to digital form. Essentially the automation of 15th Century methods.
The major promise of 21st century digital technology lies in the complete commoditisation, transparency and speeding up of both internal and external accounting information processing, together with the steady introduction of new-style expert systems which will allow much more sophisticated and multiple processing of the accounting information than can be achieved
This poses a major challenge to the roles and skills of 20th century accountants.
How far will accounting information have shifted from 15th Century processing methods by 2055?
Assuming the prediction 4 might come true by 2055, what should the response be of accountants, business managers, vendors, consultants be by 2010?
Facilitator: Professor Clive Holtham
Professor Clive Holtham
Professor Clive Holtham is Professor of Information Management at the CASS Business School, London.
After studying politics, philosophy, economics and management studies, Clive Holtham trained as an accountant and in the 1970's he was heavily involved in computer-based financial modelling. As a finance director for six years, he promoted office automation to top and senior manager colleagues. He also set up a nationally recognized system for setting and measuring performance targets.
Clive was appointed to the new chair of Information Management at CASS Business School in 1988. He carried out a study of the IT needs of top managers in conjunction with the Institute of Directors. Clive was research director on a recent major project, with five industrial partners, into the impact of collaboration technologies to support high level business processes ("The Business Facilitation System").
He has reviewed the strategic impact of both CD-ROM and networked multimedia on business, and has been Expert Advisor to the European Parliament in this area.
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Mini-clip interview for Gurteen Knowledge with Stowe Boyd. What are Social Tools? Shot at the Unicom Seminars Conference on Social Networking Tools In London, September 2006.
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