Pretty soon, its real noney! financial management in the era of distributed computing

摘要

As the importance of information technology to the business h as grown exponentially, over the last five decades, the approaches to financial management of IT have remained relatively static. Thus enterprises stand poised on the brink of the new millennium, in which the explotiation f information technologies will be the key differentiator between whinners and losers, armed with financial practices designed to control limited, centralized, non-strategic support equipment. It is not hypergole to say that the financial practices most enterprises use to manage their distributed information systems is less sophisticated than those they employ to manage their photocopiers.