
Students' Guide to Business Computing
weekly or monthly summaries showing how much has been used of
different stock items; this is useful, if you want to know how much to
order. Extracting the same summaries from a manual record system
will involve considerable time and effort.
What we have not considered here is whether it is worth buying a
computer for the burger bar. To do this, we should need to consider
all the costs involved and we have only considered the benefits so far.
We shall come back to the question of costs later; any feasibility study
for computerization must consider this. For the time being, we want
to concentrate on why businesse ...