Data Processing and the Role of Computers

Abstract

Almost any organisation has a certain amount of administrative work that must be carried out: staff must be paid, raw materials or finished goods have to be ordered and customers have to be invoiced for items they have purchased. In addition, records have to be maintained of the personnel employed, the tax deducted from their pay, suppliers, orders placed with suppliers but not yet fulfilled, customers, customers’ orders that have not yet been satisfied and a hundred and one other items in order that the organisation may work efficiently and meet its legal obligations.