TITLE

The Accountant's Handbook of Information Technology

AUTHOR(S) SURNAME, FORENAME

Bologna, G Jack & Walsh, Anthony M

Places & Countries of PUBLISHERS    YEAR
Publication

New York, NY, USA        John Wiley & Sons Inc    1997

PAGES    ISBN        BINDING    PRICE

xiii+368    0-471-30473-5    Hbk    £85

For the avoidance of prejudice your reviewer admits to being an accountant. The United States and Canadian accountants who have cooperated on this book have a completely different view of Information Technology to that taken in the many other books produced by the same publisher. And the publisher appears to believe they are right because the book is, unusually, in hardback, but then revisions will be available (at a charge) once or twice a years. These authors do not allow themselves to refer to the PC or Personal Computer; these machines are all microcomputers unless they are in a higher price band, in which case they are minicomputers. We did find the term "PC" in the reference section to IBM's direct sales line but not elsewhere. Perhaps IBM did wrong in registering Personal Computer as a trade mark and not letting the authors know that the term had become generic.

We cannot bring ourselves to comment on the content of the book. It is descriptive in an out of date way and includes check lists with "yes", "no" and "N/A" on whether things have been done in an appropriate way or not. What is "appropriate" requires much more learning on information technology than is to be found in this book.

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