ou are the accountant for a mid-sized manufacturing company. Your boss has asked you to explain some of the most important technologies affecting accounting.

Visit the Information Technology Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (infotech.aicpa.org) and find the current list of top ten technology initiatives (found under the sites Resources tab, but you may have to search for them). In a three- to five-page paper (not including the title and reference pages), write an analysis of each of the ten technology initiatives and, using scholarly research, provide a practical example of each initiative.

The paper must:

demonstrate graduate level work including appropriate research and critical thinking skills;

be presented as a written analysis (not a question/answer format);

be written in a coherent manner with proper use of grammar, spelling and punctuation;

be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.;

include citations and references for the text and at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library.