My current employer is Tyson Foods. We utilize multiple (probably
many more than I am aware of) AIS. I was in the Income Tax
Department when I first started at Tyson and we utilized CCH
IntelliConnect and Thomson Reuters OneSource to prepare our
consolidated federal and state income tax returns. The department
I'm in now, Corporate Accounting/Property, we utilize Blackline (a
cloud based software to facilitate our monthly/quarterly/yearly close
process). Companywide, we heavily utilize SAP probably for every
module that is offered. My department specifically uses it for asset
management. SAP and Blackline are integrated so we can pull
information into Blackline from SAP to run reports, make journal
entries, etc. Another AIS that my department is currently working on
rolling out is Anaplan. We will utilize this specifically to replace our
current capital expenditure platform.
A prior employer, where I was for 6 years and where I really started
my accounting career, used Asystems JobView as their AIS. There
was an accounts payable and receivable module, a payroll module, a
purchasing/purchase order module, a general ledger module, and
probably more that I just don't remember right off hand. I heavily
operated in the accounts payable and general ledger module. b The
company was "small-ish", roughly 100 employees, but I was the only
A/P person, there was only 1 A/R person and 1 Controller; in
addition to the owner/president. At the time, I didn't think anything
about the internal control structure of the company, but I really
didn't know any difference. Since I've left that company and have
become an accountant and learned what a proper control structure
should look like, that company I worked for needs to come a LONG
way in regards to internal control and safeguarding data. They were
not on a VPN nor did they have any sort of backup protocols for
system outages or destruction of records. Also, there were user
specific controls to where only certain employees could access
certain modules in Asystems JobView, but I was the accounts
payable person and I had access to the purchasing module, which
isn't the best control structure. I know it's more difficult when there
is a limited number of staff and some people have to have multiple,
overlapping roles.
