MONTERO ROMERO, Mª TERESA, CORDOBÉS MADUEÑO, MAGDALENA, Informat Resources Management Assoc
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Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
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Científica
01/01/2015
000442905400086
2-s2.0-84956817600
The non-profit sector is interested in elaborating reliable and clear financial accounting information to achieve several objectives: to know the real volume of activity in each organization, to use it to make financial and investment decision (financial management), and to contribute to improve the management system. This chapter shows the characteristics to identify the financial management and the management accounting in non-profit organizations. This information is used to define how to build an appropriate information system to provide the decision makers with reliable, transparent, and timely information. Besides the above, it also shows the usefulness of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), focusing on its definition, advantages, and disadvantages, as well as developing explanations of the major free software ERP and open source systems.
Decision making; Enterprise resource management; Enterprise software; Finance; Information management; Investments; Open source software; Open systems; Profitability; Resource allocation; Enterprise resource planning (ERP); Enterprise resource planning systems; Financial accounting; Financial managements; Investment decisions; Management accounting; Management systems; Non profit organizations; Open source system; Enterprise resource planning