Suppose you are a systems consultant for Top Accounting Professionals, CPAs. One of your clients, Seth Brown who owns a company which manufactures and sells customized furniture to customers considers upgrading its flat file based accounting information systems to more integrated accounting information systems. Seth' company does not have enough resources required to build a system in house. Commercial Software, Inc offers Seth to install the $300,000 commercial software system and train his employees. The system will handle inventories, receivables, payroll, accounts payable, and general ledger accounting. Seth is interested in this offer and asks for your advice.

Requirement: Discuss the major themes you would address in responding to Seth and identify the advantages and disadvantages of using a turnkey system to operate the organizations accounting system.