Q.State any four components of a Computerised Accounting System.

A Computerised Accounting System is built from several interdependent elements, not software alone.

A Computerised Accounting System is made up of five components that must work together: People (the operators and administrators who use the system), Procedure (the rules governing how each transaction is to be recorded and by whom), Data (the source documents such as invoices, receipts and vouchers that are fed into the system), Hardware (the computer, printer, scanner and related equipment), and Software (the accounting program that actually processes the data entered into it).

Any four of these five may be given in answer to this question; each is necessary and none is sufficient by itself, since good software on good hardware is still useless without trained people following a sound procedure and working from accurate source data.

Naming only 'hardware and software' and stopping there — People, Procedure and Data are equally valid components and are often what an examiner is specifically checking for.