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Accounting Information Systems and how to prepare for Digital Transformation

Sven-Volker Rehm

Introduction

The recent appearance of the term “Digital Transformation” has fundamentally impacted the discourse on business practices (Bharadwaj et al., 2013; Majchrzak et al., 2016). Popular perception defines Digital Transformation as an endeavour of integrating and exploiting new digital technologies, bringing about changes to a firm’s business model, product/service offerings, and business processes (Mathrani et al., 2013; Hess et al., 2016). Among the various changes that might appear, including technology use and modifications to organizational structures and processes, changes to the value creation model and its related financial tenets are ...

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