Accounting is the heart of all Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP). While this metaphor reminds one that accounting is the center all business information; it is also misleading. Accounting is totally dependent on the subsystems -auxiliary ledgers- and the data it process comes from those subsystems. This paper shows how accounting is a summarization that replicates the data contained in the other subsystems; a duplication completely necessary in a manual information system but totally redundant in a computerized one. Thereupon it demonstrates how part of the subsystems' data is also redundant in itself. It concludes with an accounting data model (IAC) that provides a better data structure for a computerized accounting information system.
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