Today’s modern accounting systems implement basic accounting needs while at the same time offering increased correctness in tracking trends, enabling partnership, and giving quick access to data. Computers run everything from home to work. Computerized solutions offer faster transaction processing and better classification of data while at the same time growing the range of input data that give a clearer and more complete picture of a company’s financial bottom line. Modern accounting systems help company management choose wisely in the use of better resources to increase profits at the same time as identifying cost saving and less spending. Accounting is the foundation of any business big or small. Yesterday many businesses did their accounting by hand. This was a long and problematic job done by those who were trained to do only accounting. Some small businesses still do it today, and this serves them fine. Larger companies have switched to computerized accounting systems today which run faster and are more accurate than manually. They both perform essentially the same thing, and are under the very same principles and concepts with the only differences being in the mechanics (Shanker, 2011). There are many factors facing manual accounting compared to computerized accounting today: speed, cost, and back up. Speed is important in accounting today due to the large companies and their investors. Using today’s computerized accounting systems, processing data, and reports are faster and more accurate causing less errors, and increases efficiency. This is all done with the push of a button (Shanker, 2011). Doing accounting manually is cheaper, but takes longer and is more likely to have errors. Using the computerized system is more costly due to the purchases of software, computer, training, and program upkeep. Other expenses with the computerized system