Accounting And Visual Basic: Whats The Connection?

Abstract

It is not enough today for accountants simply to know how to use word processing and spreadsheet software. In the knowledge age, accounting professionals must use infor-mation technology to the fullest. The ability to create, process, understand, and distri-bute information often determines work productivity, ratings on job performance evaluations, and even ultimate career successes. Accounting graduates with superior information technology (IT) skills are highly recruited, valued, and rewardedthese are the employees who are best able to perform the computer tasks required by their professional responsibilities. This paper reviews some reasons why todays accountants must be familiar with programming concepts in general, and Visual Basic (VB) in par-ticular. It also reviews those VB programming tools that are especially useful to accounting applications.