THE ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT FOR ECONOMICS

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• THE 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
Aim Strategy Educationalfeatures Innovativeasp
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• ESA 95 European System of Accounts(binding
  framework for all EU member countries)
• 37 sectors
• 20 accounts

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

learning by usingfree, structured and assisted
access for beginners, advanced students and
experts (holistic approach one tool serves all)
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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 Innovativeasp
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Backed freestyle learning and supervised training

• Freestyle mode
• Navigation aid and Tracker
• Consistency checks(system diagnosis)

Aim Strategy Educationalfeatures Innovativeasp
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• Wizard (entry finder)

• Indicator generator

• Visual data analysis

• Training Mode
• Editor for designing exercices and solutions
• Knowledge check for students
• Electronic exams

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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 Innovativeasp
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• Multilingual accounting contents
• English
• French
• German
• more languages can beadded easily without
  recompilation