The Effect of enterprise resource planning systems on accounting information system through knowledge management process and an application

The importance of knowledge is being realized day by day. By the noticing ofthe strategic importance of knowledge by the companies, companies has a great effort inintegrating knowledge into their operations. These efforts, as a whole, are calledknowledge management.Developments in technology has effected the operating of information systems in thecompanies. Accounting Information Systems (AIS), one of the oldest information systems inthe companies, also been effected by the recent trends occured in the technology.In the first chapter of the study, the importance of knowledge for the companiesis emphasized and the changes occured by the knowledge management implementationin the companies are explained.In the second chapter, the operating of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)systems, which integrates the information systems together in a company, are explained.Also the effects of ERP systems on companies, and relations with the AIS are explained.In the third chapter, the place of AIS in Management Information System, theeffects of recent changes on AIS are explained by the AIS in general and in detail by thesubsystems of AIS.The last chapter of the study is a case study applied within one of the top tiremanufacturing firm that has implemented the ERP system, in Turkey, Kocaeli. The studyexamines the AIS of the company by the system in general and in detail by the subsystems.Key Words: Knowledge Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),Databases, Accounting Information System, Event-Driven Process Chain, Resources-Events-Agents (REA), SAP R/3, Bridgestone