A CTA S2002

THE ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT FOR ECONOMICSTHE ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT FOR ECONOMICS

Stefan Kooths

Muenster Institute for Computational Economics

University of Muenster/Germany

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(Inter-) National Accounting at your fingertips

• ESA 95: European System of Accounts(binding framework for all EU member countries)

37 sectors

20 accounts

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Strategy

Educationalfeatures

Innovativeaspects

max. 80.000 transactions

• BPM 93: IMF Balance of Payments System(available in all IMF member countries)

learning by using:free, structured and assisted access for

beginners, advanced students and experts (holistic approach: one tool serves all)

• Real world accountingsystems are thebackbone of ACTAS

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User-tailored complexity

• Account compression/options (vertical complexity)

• Sector consolidation (horizontal complexity)

• 5 degrees of detail hiding (transaction depth)

• ACTAS keeps the system consistent and allows for free navigation and experimental accounting („do and see“)

Aim

Strategy

Educationalfeatures

Innovativeaspects

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Backed freestyle learning and supervised training

• Freestyle mode

Navigation aid and Tracker

Consistency checks(system diagnosis)

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Strategy

Educationalfeatures

Innovativeaspects

Wizard (entry finder)

Authoring/Training Mode

Editor/Viewer for designing/solving exercices

Knowledge check for students

Electronic exams

Indicator generator

Visual data analysis

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Bringing accounts to life

• Real-life accounting system approach allows for easy import of real-world data

ESA-import via Excel

BPM-import via Excel and clipboard from IMF-CDROM

• COM-interface: ACTAS as server for displaying model-based results from client applications

Aim

Strategy

Educationalfeatures

Innovativeaspects

• Multilingual accounting contents:

• English

• French

• German

• more languages can beadded easily without recompilation