My current employer is Tyson Foods. a We utilize multiple (probably
many more than I am aware of) AIS. a 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
am in now, Corporate Accounting/Property, we utilize Blackline (a
cloud-based software to facilitate our monthly/quarterly/yearly close
process). a 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. a I heavily
operated in the accounts payable and general ledger module. 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. a 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 is more difficult when there is a limited
number of staff and some people must have multiple, overlapping
roles.
