Automated accounting systems are responsible for the movement of billions of dollars every day. Describes the most advanced accounting systems, related support technologies, and procedures in use today and explains how they work using non-technical terms and definitions. Numerous charts, tables and examples prove extremely helpful. To accommodate small business needs, it provides a practical look at automation, demonstrating features generally automated in large corporations and explains how they may be used in different ways, or not used at all, by smaller companies.