Business Models For Sustainable Innovation

Research Background:

All the revolution surrounding the arena of accounting has in terms of technology has played a crucial job in making the work of the accountants far easier. Technology has changed the curse of accounting in it’s entirely. Technological presence in the work of accounting has made the work of the accountants far more reliable and less prone to errors. In the last two decades, there has been a spur in the growth of computer and its related technologies especially in the arena of business organisations. The business orgasnitions have started delegating the daily repetative tasks to the technological advancments and have started leaving the tasks requiring creatibity and decisoin making to its employees. This trend has continued in accounting too and has caused changes in the company’s internal policies. Technological advancements have now become the need of the hour. Today hardly companies could stay competitive in this cut throat competitive market scenario, by excluding the use of technology. Adoption of technological advancemnts have become imperative in the success of today’s business organisations. With the increased competion in the market, there has been a large scale requriement and demand for technological innovation in the business world. This has compelled the need for assessing the impact of innovation upon accounting and business. 

Research Problem / Research Question

• Has there been any real change in accounting because of innovation?
• What kind of changes has impacted the most in accounting and business?
• Does emerging technology emerge a threat to the professions of accountants in the future?
• Which tecnologies will most impact the furture of accounting and business in the future?
• What technological improvement is required in the future for the benefit of the business?

Research Aim and Objectives:

The aims of this research are as follows:

• To understand the innovation and technological impact on Accounting and business.
• To explore different aspects of technological innovations in the field of Accounting.
• To gauge the impact of technological innovations in the field of Accounting.
• To assess the future role of innovation and technology in the field of Accounting and business.

Keywords for Literature Review:

Technological innovation, Accounting, Business, and Cloud- based Accounting, Complete Integration, Block Chain Technology, Digital Currency, Artificial Intelligence, OCR Technology, Social Media, Mobile Accounting, information technology.

Data Collection Plan:

Data collection is one of the most important aspects of any research plan. It helps in collection of various kinds of data, which would eventually help in assessing the different aspects of the concerned research topic. In the following case of innovation in accounting and its impact on business, some of the following steps would be taken regarding the procedure of collecting useful information for successfully conducting the proposal. First for collecting the data, a systematic questionnaire would be prepared, containing the different aspects of the objectives and aims of the topic. This questionnaire would be divided into two portions, where in the first part would include questions related to the structural data of the different technologies which would be used and are used by the different business organisations. The second part required information about the future prospects of the use of innovative technologies in the business organisations. The accountants would be required to answer these questions. This will help in having an accurate amount of idea regarding the various aspects of innovation and technology in Accounting and its subsequent impact on business. Specifically an e-mail would be sent to the all the accounting professional for conducting these kind of questionnaires. These would help in conducting the surveys in a more efficient manner.

Ethical Consideration:

Innovation and technology is one of the greatest boon, which has ever occurred in the world of accounting and business. However, there are repurcussions and significant amount of impact regarding the adoption and the use of inovation and technology in businesses. This exerts a crucial impact on the overall working ckimate in any organistion. One of the most important and common impact, which the adoption and use of technology has on the workers and the employers of the company is the fear of getting replaced by machines on a long term basis. The employers would continue to work in the fear of getting replaced by machines and this fear adversly impacts their long term performance in the business. Another important impacct would be the blatant violation of the privacy of the employees. It has been researched and seen that the advancement of technology in the arena of business, would lead to a compromise of the privacy of the individuals. The use of technology could be dangerous for the individuals and the employees of the business as it has been seen that their tastes, preferences and habits could easily be carved out from their search history. This could have serious implications on their future prospects and it could also endanger their stay in the company.

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