ENTERPRISE MODELING ADVANTAGES OF SAN-FRANCISCO FOR GENERAL LEDGER SYSTEMS

With the advent of San Francisco(TM), object technology can seriously be considered for commercial enterprise applications. Much more work n eeds to be done in explaining why object technology will be important to business users. In accounting, for example, objects-and San Francis co frameworks in particular-provide elegant solutions to some of the p roblems encountered in conventional accounting information systems, pa rticularly in the general ledger area. They also support an approach f or generalizing accounting systems, allowing them to become models of the business enterprise rather than merely systems of accounts, ledger s, and journals. Such systems will support a much wider spectrum of ma nagement and analysis needs than conventional systems.