Ais and Performance of Firms - Miema
Ais and Performance of Firms - Miema
TERM PAPER
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PRESENTED BY
AKPA MIEMA
(G2022/MSC/ACT/FT/025)
MSC ACCOUNTING
COURSE TITLE:
ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM
PLAGIARISM TEST: 7%
ABSTRACT
The provided text outlines the importance of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) in
enhancing organizational performance, particularly in the areas of product innovation,
customer satisfaction, and market expansion. It emphasizes the role of AIS in collecting,
storing, and processing financial and accounting data, which is crucial for decision-making
by internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, it highlights the legal requirement for
public limited companies in Nigeria to disclose their financial status and the responsibility
of management to prepare financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles (GAAP).
The text also underscores the significance of financial information in aiding investors to
make informed investment decisions and in reflecting investment in equity shares. It
asserts that without adequate accounting information, investors would struggle to
differentiate between potentially successful and unsuccessful businesses.
Finally, the text introduces the aim of the study, which is to empirically establish a
relationship between AIS and organizational performance in selected organizations in
Rivers State, Nigeria. The study aims to provide evidence regarding the impact of adopting
AIS on organizational performance metrics such as market expansion, product innovation,
and customer satisfaction.
The importance of financial reporting to a business organization with consideration of its
usage to the users of accounting information such as shareholders, management,
government and its agencies, employees, financial analyst and researchers cannot be
overemphasized (Obasesin and Olaoye, 2019). The basis of producing financial report in
contemporary business lies on accounting information system which automates accounting
information. The field of accounting information system is influenced by management
information systems, economics, psychology, computer science & organizational behavior
(Ezenwoke et al 2019).Information Technology is essential in contemporary, competitive
and dynamic business environment with consideration of its impact on qualitative
information systems. It constitutes hardware, network, software, database and other
essential tools which are useful for corporate organizations accounting information
systems (Shaukat and Zafarullah 2009; Kariuki, 2005; Olaoye, Olaofe-Obasesin and Akanni
2019).
While the study assumes that adopting accounting information systems will improve the
organizational performance of the firms, it is yet to gain empirical evidence. The study,
therefore, aims at empirically establishing a relationship between accounting information
systems and organization performance (market expansion, product innovation, and
customer satisfaction) of selected organizations in Rivers State, Nigeria.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
This reviews the respective variables, and the relevant theories underpinning this study,
among others
2.1 Accounting Information System and Performance
Accounting information, as a component of management information, is critical in decision
making. This System, according to Bodnar and Hopwood (1995), entails the effective
combination of organizational resources in order to provide actionable information for
decision making.
Accounting information systems, whether manual or computerized, perform this
transformation. Furthermore, any organization's accounting information system must be
properly designed in order for managers to fully utilize the resources at their disposal in an
efficient and effective manner. As a result, it is critical to implement an adequate and timely
accounting information system for business management. Accounting practice and study
are combined with information system design when creating an accounting information
system.
AIS is a system encompassing a combination of accounting techniques, methodologies,
controls, and ICT, and one used for tracking transactions, external reporting of data,
reporting of internal data, and trend analysis and financial statements reporting (Kayed,
2021). In a slightly variant explanation to the position of Kayed (2021), Manchilot (2019)
opined that AIS is a computer-based electronic system used for collecting, storing,
processing, and communicating financial and accounting data through financial statements
to support and guide the organizational decision-making process. To Borhan and Bader
(2018), however, accounting information system contains a group of harmonized
businesses, components, and resources that process, manage, and control the data for
producing and carrying the relevant information for decision-makers in the organization.
Arguing divergently, Kashif (2018), opined that accounting information system combines
people, equipment, policies, and procedures in effectively functioning together to collect
and transform data into useful information. Meiryani, Yuliana, Mohamad and Dianka
(2020), meanwhile, highlighted the objectives of AIS to include: collecting and storing data,
processing data into information useable for decision making, performing effective control
over company assets, and the systematic presentation of financial data in an accurate
manner.
Relating AIS to performance, Letizia, Bambang and Kurnia (2022), meanwhile, argued that
it affects employee performance at Banco Nasional de Comércio de Timor-Leste (BNCTL).
According to these authors, this occurs since a good accounting information system will
provide access to the customer services completely, safely, quickly, and easily and will
produce accurate, effective, and efficient financial reporting and recording. In the empirical
assertion of Muhanna and Seif (2019), firms that adopt accounting information system are
more likely to achieve higher performance. Thus, performance refers to the ability of the
firm to achieve its goals and objective, which could be financial or non-financial. In this
study, it is believed that AIS will further enhance the performance of firms in Nigeria.
Aws et al. (2020) explored the influence of Accounting Information System (AIS) success or
effectiveness factors namely system quality, information quality, service quality and
training quality on the organizational benefits of listed Jordanian firms using a DeLone and
McLean Information System (IS) success model. To achieve the purpose of the research, the
collected data of 117 Chief Finance Officer (CFO) who are operating in the listed Jordanian
firms that had already implemented AIS was analysed via Partial Least Squares-Structural
Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the research model. The results showed that
information quality, service quality and training quality had positive and a significant
contribution on the organizational benefits. However, system quality did not have any
significant impact on the organizational benefits in context of this research. The findings of
Ali (2019) correspond with the result of this study.
Lastly, Israel et al (2023), did a similar study with the focus on the impact of Accounting
Information System (AIS) on the financial and non-financial performance of firms in
Nigeria. The study adopted survey research method through structured questionnaire,
purposive sampling technique, and descriptive data analysis. The study revealed that
accounting information system, proxied by internal control, information quality and cost
reduction, has a positive and significant effect on the performance of firms in Nigeria. The
study further recommends among other things that private companies should ensure that
accounting information systems are used consistently in order to keep up with changing
technological breakthroughs.
In the reviewed articles in Nigeria, however, Hussaini et al. (2018) examined the effect of
internal control on performance of commercial banks in Nigeria. Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse data collected through the primary source
(questionnaire). The results showed a positive and significant relationship between the
four components of internal control (control environment, control activities, monitoring,
and risk assessment) and bank performance. Information and communication were,
however, found to have an insignificant positive relationship with bank performance. The
result of this research is in alignment with Raad, Nor and Azam (2020).
Whilst establishing the nexus between AIS and financial and non-financial performance
measures of organisations in Nigeria, Ironkwe and Nwaiwu (2018) used primary data
through questionnaire for data collection. The results showed that AIS exerts significant
positive effect on the indicators of the dependent variable. In the study of the effect of AIS
on performance of organisation in Nigeria, using questionnaire on 30 respondents for data
collection, Olaofe Obasesin (2020) found that AIS through the components have positive
effect on corporate organisation performance.
Enyi et al. (2019) did their research on the relationship between AIS and financial
performance of deposit money banks. The study, which adopted survey research design
through questionnaire on 420 randomly selected staff of 21 commercial banks found the
existence of significant positive nexus between the variables.
In the review of literature on the effect of AIS on financial performance of firms, Ganyam
and Ivungu (2019), noted that past studies limitedly aligned their works to the cost
implication of AIS as it concerns financial performance of firms.
The review of the relate literature shows that while the findings depict positive
relationship between AIS and performance of firms, this study was expanded to cover
additional different component of AIS which others overlooked. In addition, Rivers State,
one of Nigeria industrialized states was used by this study, differently from the areas of
most other studies to give a balanced view.
3 METHODOLOGY
The study adopted a secondary research of a structured questionnaire, to measure the
impact of accounting information systems on the performance of selected Firms in Rivers
State, Nigeria, which was administered to employees of some accounting firms, practicing
auditors, and chartered accountants in practice. The targeted population and the sample
size determined through the purposive sampling technique were fifty (50) respondents
comprised of employees representing various firms, practicing auditors, and chartered
accountants. However, 46 questionnaires were duly filled and retrieved from the data
surveyed. Data were analysed through descriptive and inferential statistics. Multiple linear
regression was analysed using STATA 13. The questions raised in the questionnaire were
streamlined to get reliable and validly measurable data, with a 5-points Liker scale method.
Model Specification
POF = f (AIS) (1)
AIS = f (IC, IQ, CR) (2)
𝑃𝑂𝐹 = 𝛽
𝑜 + 𝛽𝐼𝐶𝑖
1 + 𝛽𝐼𝑄𝑖
2 + 𝛽𝐶𝑅𝑖
3 + 𝜇(3)
POF = Performance of Firms = Dependent variable
AIS = Accounting Information System = Independent variable
Where;
AIS = Accounting Information System
IC = Internal Control
IQ = Information Quality
CR = Cost Reduction
From the above empirical analysis, the following findings were made:
1. Accounting information system has a strong positive relationship with the market
expansion of the selected organisations in Rivers State, Nigeria.
Discussion of Findings
The findings of this study show that the majority of the respondents are male, within the
age bracket of 20-39 years, married, have HND/BSC as their highest academic qualification,
do not have a professional qualification, and work in the private sector. Also, the major
determinants of performance of firms are available and retrievable financial information,
adequate financial information, clear company financial information, implementation of
segregation of duty, regular review and reconciliation of accounts, periodic training on
internal control, password compromise automation, discouragement of wastage through
recycling of office materials and avoidance of regulatory sanctions.
The result further shows that components of the accounting information system (AIS) such
as internal control, information quality, and cost reduction have positive significant effect
on the performance of firms in Nigeria. This is in agreement with Trablusi (2018), Raad,
Nor and Azam (2020), Ironkwe and Nwaiwu (2018), Olaofe-Obasesin (2020) and Enyi et al.
(2019), which found that cost reduction, internal control, and information quality
respectively have a positive and significant effect on the performance of firms.
5.1 Recommendations
ii. Management should also ensure that other organizational success factors are evaluated
to complement the contributions of the accounting information system to the
organization's performance.
iii. Companies should train their specialized personnel who will competently handle their
accounting information systems to compete favourably with their counterparts in terms of
market expansion, product innovation customer satisfaction.
iv. To boost their performance, private companies should ensure that accounting
information systems are used consistently and firms should upgrade their accounting
information systems regularly to keep up with changing technology advancements.
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