What Prevents Future Entrepreneurs From Perceiving The Interaction Between The Entrepreneurial and The Accounting Process

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What prevents future

entrepreneurs from
perceiving the interaction
between the
entrepreneurial and the
accounting process
Eve Lamberg, Estonian Business School (EBS)
Tartu 15.03.2012

Entrepreneurship as a Process:
Some Key Phases (Baron & Shane,
2008)

What barriers exist for future


entrepreneurs?
1. Accounting textbooks emphasize the

manual accounting procedure to such an


extent that future entrepreneurs bog down
in unnecessary steps . For example Horngren
et al, 2007 p.141 Exhibit 4-1.
2. Debit- credit rule of accounting procedure
in which data of business activities is
processed into financial statements.
3. Data coding prevent data analysis.

value that accounting can provide


BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES
(other subsystems)

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
(documents)
Input boundary

AIS
MEASURING of business activities
(classifing and accumulating DATA)

(Business events DATA as input of AIS)

PROCESSING of business activities


(summarizing and manipulating of DATA)
(DATA INFORMATION)

COMMUNICATING of accounting information


(converting of INFORMATION)

(INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE as output of AIS)

Output boundary

Financial statements about business activities


KNOWLEDGE for decision making

Thank You for your kind attention!

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