Accountants And The World Wide Web: A Review And Demonstration Of A Web Editor

Abstract

This paper provides a review of the web editor AOLPress.  AOLPress is an easy to use windows-based WYSIWYG web editor that can be freely downloaded from the Internet.  This paper demonstrates how to design the front end of a simple accounting application, using AOLPress to create web forms, frames, lists, buttons, tables, and hyperlinks.  There are screen dumps of each step in the process.  Accounting professionals seem to be among the slowest to adopt new technology.  Yet, there is an interest in web technology among accountants.  The goal of this paper is to help accounting professionals and educators minimize the learning curve by removing some of the mystique associated with web technology.