develop new knowledge in financial accounting and new skills to manage complex system.
Besides Enterprise Resource Planning generates a great quantity of information which accountants can use in order to better understand the whole firm supporting decision making
process .
Some researchers emphasize, in particular, the relevance of a successful implementation of an IS solution and its relationship with the management accountants role.
Indeed, authors find that under a useful and successful Enterprise Resource Planning, management accountants can enrich their activities, as they have more time to do other.
Instead if the Enterprise Resource Planning has some deficiencies, the authors argue that the accountants have to increase their tasks in order to support the problems created by the Information System application.
For this reason the utilization of an Enterprise Resource Planning in a firm can shift the role of accountants from processing information to analysis, even if their responsibility cannot change due to an Enterprise Resource Planning implementation .
Operative changes in management accountants due to the Enterprise Resource Planning can be divided in two categories: Direct effects and indirect ones .
With reference to the first kind of impacts , some authors underline that the Information Technology solution is able to automatically produce reports, streamlining the accountants work and increasing the timeliness of information dissemination.
Regarding the indirect impacts, the most common ones can be expressed as the introduction of an internal audit function, the use of non-financial performance indicators and profitability analysis at segmental/product level .