Accounting in the Cloud Computing

Abstract

The paper widely discusses not only threats and barriers, which are associated with the new model of cloud computing. It covers the benefits and prospects for the development of enterprises and all kinds of services inherent in using the cloud computing model. The results of a survey conducted among Polish entrepreneurs operating in the province of Silesia on the knowledge of the concept of cloud computing, the potential of the business model have been analyzed, discussed and compared with published results of previous studies. It has been noted that the use of cloud computing, also in the area of accounting reduces overall IT management costs, and allows large-scale consolidation and optimization of the use of hardware and software resources. It can level the competitive field, by making a large-scale computational resources available to small businesses and other organizations, which would not be able to afford adequate infrastructure otherwise. This trend represents also the ability to equal opportunities in the macro-scale, which means emerging economies, at least for those regions that have created a sufficiently reliable and fast broadband infrastructure

Keywords

• Cloud computing, accounting,SME business