Contemporary Issues in Accounting: An Overview

Abstract

Accounting has evolved constantly over the past two decades, with each new addition and innovation making it even better and challenging though providing satisfaction and convenience to the users. Modern accounting has reached the present stage after undergoing gradual changes over the years; by keeping pace with the fast evolving technological advancements; economic changes and environmental challenges. There has been consistent modification and development from manual systems to technological alternatives which has made accounting easier and convenient for users. The recent trend in accounting towards faster technologies has immensely increased its capacity to serve users as well as expected to make it easily accessible, less expensive and time saving. The present study considers some of the contemporary issues in accounting and gives a brief overview on these.