The Information Technology and Business Requirement Evolution

Abstract

n our economy there is a high variety of business models and activities. For being competitive, companies have the need to compile diverse financial reporting in order to provide correct and in time information. Various activities get along with a variety of financial reporting based on the financial activity data. High demand for the financial reporting variety has affected the development of software and programming technology that facilitate the reports generation. Nowadays, keeping electronic data is inseparable from everyday work process. This study makes evident that technology development takes forward the economic thinking. Finance’s demand to IT specialists for more detailed information and how the economic thinking is principal for the information technology development are the core materials of the study. To achieve the objective a case study is taken as an example. We take in consideration the experience of an Albanian company that operates in the pay television field. Actually the company has professional software that can manage the sales data in various reports. The database creates the possibility to filter and process the information as the demand leads. But, there is still the need to process the data in other programs to have a complex reporting on the deferred revenues. This fact takes us to a deeper thinking and we analyze the interaction between finance and IT specialist. Analyses give us the possibility to come to some conclusions at the end.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n3p55