Tourism in Sri Lanka

Tourism in Sri Lanka 1. Sri Lanka is an island country and god has given to Sri Lanka blessings of nature blue seas, green hills, sandy beaches, abundant wildlife, cascading waterfalls, a riot of flowers and fruits, coconut groves, tea estates, spice gardens. Here ones day can be gloriously lazy by a palm cool lagoon or full of joy, swimming, snorkeling, and fishing or sailing like a brilliant jewel in the sparkling waters of the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka is located in a strategically considered naval spot on the world map. This significant situation creates a path for a major sea route. In addition it creates a strategic naval link between West Asia, Africa and East Asia. Sri Lanka entered the international tourism arena in the 1960s. Since then, government involvement has been the key factor in tourism development in Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Tourist Board (CTB) was established in 1966 in order to provide direction and leadership to this promising sector of the developing economy. The country is famous for h ealthy and cultural heritage. Hospitality, tropical forests, natural and fascinating beaches, archeological sites and the tropical climate are the more attractive features. These factors make Sri Lanka a wonderful tourist destination. Over the years tourism in Sri Lanka has developed significantly. Today tourism has become the sixth Foreign Exchange Earner (FEE) in Sri Lankan economy. 2. Tourism can make a great impact on development of the Sri Lankan economy. Tourism is a fast growing industry which has been identified presently. Employment opportunities and regional development are playing significant role with regard to the tourism industry development. It can be considered as the most important industry in the country as a whole. The governments vision is to make the tourism sector as Sri Lankas most innovative and profitable income generating source. 3. During past three decades Sri Lankas tourism industry had few draw backs. This was mainly due to the security situation which prevailed in the country. Further the tourism industry was also affected due to the Tsunami catastrophe which occurred in 2004. Approximately 2/3rd of the coastal area including tourist infrastructure facilities was destroyed. The immediate post war period gave rise to a dramatic increase of tourist arrival from end May 2009. 4. In order to support the efforts and to develop the tourism sector in Sri Lanka there should be hotels with exclusive facilities which are in par with the international standards to accommodate a large number of visitors. In the year 2010 approximately one million tourists visited Sri Lanka. Unlike in the past, the inflow of tourists is increasing day by day as a result of the end of the 30 year civil war which destroys the whole country. Following graph indicates how tourism increased from 1966 to 2011 in Sri Lanka. The government is expected to receive 2.5 million tourists in 2016. To cater for this increase tourist hotels in Sri Lanka must be developed. Similarly other facilities should also be increased to meet the desired economic goals. AIM 5. The aim of this paper is to analyze the development of Sri Lanka tourism -challenges and opportunities GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE OF SRI LANKA 6. Sir Lanka has a various terrain but it mainly consists of flat lands but south-central portion of the countrys step sided river, canyons interior features and mountain. The flatter regions are the areas where most of Sri Lankas agriculture takes place, aside from coconut farms along the coast. Sri Lankas climate is tropical and the southwestern part of the island is the wettest. . The northeastern part of Sri Lanka is drier and most of its rain falls from December to February. Most of the rain in the southwest falls from April to June and October to November Sri Lankas average yearly temperature is around 86 °F to 91 °F. An important geographic note about Sri Lanka is its position in the Indian Ocean, which made it vulnerable to one of the worlds largest natural disasters. On December, 26, 2004, it was struck by large tsunami that hit 12 Asian countries. Around 38,000 people in Sri Lanka were killed during this incident and much of Sri Lankas coast was destroyed. 7. Sri Lanka is situated in strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea lanes. It has a total area of 65,610 km ², with 64,740 km ² of land and 870 km ² of water. Its coastline is 1,340 km long. Sri Lankas climate includes tropical monsoons: the southwest monsoon (June to October) and the northeast monsoon (December to March), its terrain is mostly low, flat to undulating plain, with mountains in the south-central interior. The highest point is Pidurutalagala at 2,524.13 m. Resource include limestone, mineral sands, gems, graphite, phosphates, clay, and hydropower. 8. Adams Bridge, a land connection to the Indian mainland, is now mostly underwater with only a chain of limestone shoals remaining above sea level. According to temple records, this natural causeway was previously complete, but was breached by a violent storm (probably a cyclone) in 1480. SRI LANKAS COMMITMENT TO TOURISM 9. Tourism is a vital area in the policy structure has been identified as capable of efficiently driving the countrys socio economic development. The programmes vision for the tourism sector is to make Sri Lanka foremost freedom destination in the South Asian Region. The programme believes the human resources and natural and cultural endowments values and nation will be essential in transforming Sri Lanka into a centre of excellence and offer tourists the highest values of real experiences in its unique setting. 10 The One Stop Unit Unit for National Investment in Tourism is a Centralized promotion and facilitation center Established Thurs assist potential tourism investors interested in investing in Sri Lanka Tourism Industry. Specialist staff from various government agencies helps investors Identify possible projects, Obtain information possible, Regarding Investments, submit applications, and Provide support in obtaining investment promotion privileges, trade licenses and other approvals Requested for project clearance. OSU Prevents the need for investors Thurs spend time in search of answers and ensures all queries are handled by its specialist staff. 11. Serious civil disturbances starting in July 1983 and the subsequent violence badly affected tourism. Total arrivals were 230,106 in 1986, down 43 percent from 1982. To ease the dilemma of the industry, the government provided various concessions to hotels, such as the rescheduling of loans and the reduction of the turnover tax from 10 percent to 5 percent. The Ceylon Tourist Board also undertook a crash promotion program in an attempt to restore the islands image in world tourist markets. Tourist arrivals in the first six months of 1987, however, showed a decline of 23 percent compared with the same period the previous year. In early 1988, the outlook was for further contraction. 12. In 1988 it remained unclear whether the policies of economic liberalization Sri Lanka has pursued since 1977 would succeed in their principal goals of employment, wealth creation, and economic diversification. Although increased rice production, the growth of textile manufacturing, and an improved infrastructure were successes that could be attributed to the post-1977 policies, these gains came at the cost of a mounting foreign and domestic debt and declining living standards for the poor. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT TOWARDS TOURISM 13. The One Stop Unit Unit for National Investment in Tourism is a Centralized promotion and facilitation center Established Thurs assist potential tourism investors interested in investing in Sri Lanka Tourism Industry. Specialist staff from various government agencies helps investors Identify possible projects, Obtain information possible, Regarding Investments, submit applications, and Provide support in obtaining investment promotion privileges, trade licenses and other approvals Requested for project clearance. OSU Prevents the need for investors Thurs spend time in search of answers and ensures all queries are handled by its specialist staff. 14. Serious civil disturbances starting in July 1983 and the subsequent violence badly affected tourism. Total arrivals were 230,106 in 1986, down 43 percent from 1982. To ease the dilemma of the industry, the government provided various concessions to hotels, such as the rescheduling of loans and the reduction of the turnover tax from 10 percent to 5 percent. The Ceylon Tourist Board also undertook a crash promotion program in an attempt to restore the islands image in world tourist markets. Tourist arrivals in the first six months of 1987, however, showed a decline of 23 percent compared with the same period the previous year. In early 1988, the outlook was for further contraction. 15. In 1988 it remained unclear whether the policies of economic liberalization Sri Lanka has pursued since 1977 would succeed in their principal goals of employment, wealth creation, and economic diversification. Although increased rice production, the growth of textile manufacturing, and an improved infrastructure were successes that could be attributed to the post-1977 policies, these gains came at the cost of a mounting foreign and domestic debt and declining living standards for the poor. PROMOTION OF TOURISM INVESTMENT 16. The Board of Investment has introduced incentives in the form of tax exemptions, duty-free imports and the relaxation of controls on foreign exchange holdings. The incentives provided by the government have mainly attracted investment in the hotel sector. The present hotel capacity is 13,670 rooms. That figure is projected to increase to 21,000 rooms by 2004, which will accommodate the target of 1 million tourists. Five regional domestic airports to be restructured at a total cost of approx. Rs. 2bn: Rathmalana, Koggala ,Ampara , Trincomalee Jaffna (Rathmalana will be developed as a City Airport) Previous year. This denotes that tourism industry is one of the core sources of foreign exchange earner in economy of Sri Lanka. Due to the development of tourism improved accessibility via new highways and conversion of military to domestic airports may make high-end hotels in the Deep South and the East of Sri Lanka viable alternatives to the Galle area. OPPORTUNITIES FOR TOURISM INDUSTRY 17. Tourism directly affected to economy of a country. The momentum of growth in tourism, as result of the post conflict peaceful environment, the tourist arrivals grew to 654,476 in 2010 surpassing the previous record of 566,202 in 2004. Tourist nights one of an important indicator in measuring the volume of tourist traffic, has recorded 6, 544, 760 in 2010. It shows 60.6 per cent increase compared to 2009. Total receipts in 2010 amounted to US $ 575.9 million as against US $ 349.3 million recorded for the year 2009. It indicates a vast increase of 64.9 per cent than THREATS FOR TOURISM INDUSTRY 18. Development of tourist hotels in Sri Lanka will extremely support the rapid economic development. Developments of tourist hotels, increase room capacities, increase occupancy rates and develop the condition of rooms and upgrade the service provided in the hotels are the key factors to be mainly focused on if to develop tourism. It indeed contributes to the development of tourism and in turn development of economy of the country. Tourist hotel industry should be developed in most of the famous city for tourism with sufficient amount of tourist hotels 19. As political risk introduces additional elements of uncertainty into the rules governing tourism investment projects, the risk of capital loss is raised for longer- term projects. Political risk also negatively influences the timing and pricing of the tourism production process. Negative images, lack of foreign exchange for tourism development, lack of skilled manpower, weak institutional frameworks for tourism planning, political instability caused by communal violence, civil war conflicts are inhibitors to tourism development. However, little is known about how international tourism firms perceive political risks and other general barriers and threats to tourism promotion in Sri Lanka. 20. Common political factors which affect the tourism industry are revolution, civil war, factional conflict, ethnic violence, religious turmoil, widespread riots, terrorism, nationwide strikes, protests, cross- national guerrilla warfare, world public opinion, repatriation restrictions, bureaucratic politics, leadership struggle, high inflation, border conflicts, high external debt service ratio and creeping nationalization. Last thirty years Sri Lanka also faced the civil war and it affected the tourism industry of Sri Lanka. Organizing elections frequently also create threat to the tourism industry because during the election period in some places to control the situation cur hews are implemented. 21. This will create negative image in the mind of tourists. Some of the foreign countries have reject Sri Lankas products in their country due to the violation of human rights during the war time. For example government invested and spent on IIFA programme but it was not a successful event for Sri Lanka because the big stars have boycotted the event. They didnt visit Sri Lanka because of the protests held in their country by asking them not to visit the place. Currently Sri Lanka is having negative relationship with some foreign countries therefore the export and import of Sri Lankan products will be decreased and it affects the tourism industry as well. FUTURE TRENDS, CHALLENGES 22. Source markets in Asia and Middle East to drive demand: Sri Lankas proximity to source markets such as India and its connectivity to the Middle East and China will help in sustaining tourism growth. The rise in per capita income and therefore consumer spending in these source markets will aid the growth in tourism. 23. Infrastructure growth to fuel tourism growth: To ensure rapid growth of tourism in the future, tourism projects will need to be balance with infrastructure development. We expect that with improvements in road infrastructure and development of the new airport in Hambantota, various new destinations will emerge in the country, especially to the north and the east, as these areas have abundant natural beauty to attract tourists but currently suffer from poor connectivity. We expect more airlines to operate in the country as the second airport develops. 24. Greater competition will facilitate growth: We also expect greater competition with the introduction of new hotels in popular destinations such as Colombo, Kandy, Bentota, and Sigiriya, and Galle. We expect the existing hotels to undertake phased renovations to effectively compete with the upcoming hotels. Also, with the increase in income from hotels over the past few years, we expect an increase in the number of hospitality related transactions and mergers and acquisitions. 25. Challenge of attrition to other destinations: Currently, the hotel industry witnesss significant employee attrition to countries in the Middle East and to the Maldives and India. However, with a more stable political environment and improvement in quality of living in Sri Lanka, we expect the attrition to gradually 26. Shortage of skilled labor: As new players enter the market, the projected growth in tourism will be accompanied by shortage of skilled labour. We anticipate the need for relive hospitality education institutions as the contribution of the tourism sector to the overall economy increases. SUMMARY 27. Sri Lanka is located in a strategically considered naval spot on the world map. Sri Lanka entered the international tourism arena in the 1960s. Since then, government involvement has been the key factor in tourism development in Sri Lanka. Over the years tourism in Sri Lanka has developed significantly. Today tourism has become the sixth Foreign Exchange Earner (FEE) in Sri Lankan economy.Tourism can make a great impact on development of the Sri Lankan economy. Employment opportunities and regional development are playing significant role with regard to the tourism industry development. The governments vision is to make the tourism sector as Sri Lankas most innovative and profitable income generating source. 28. During past three decades Sri Lankas tourism industry had few draw backs. In the year 2010 approximately one million tourists visited Sri Lanka. Following graph indicates how tourism increased from 1966 to 2011 in Sri Lanka. To cater for this increase tourist hotels in Sri Lanka must be developed. Sri Lankas climate is tropical and the southwestern part of the island is the wettest. . Around 38,000 people in Sri Lanka were killed during this incident and much of Sri Lankas coast was destroyed. 29. Total arrivals were 230,106 in 1986, down 43 percent from 1982. The Ceylon Tourist Board also undertook a crash promotion program in an attempt to restore the islands image in world tourist markets. This denotes that tourism industry is one of the core sources of foreign exchange earner in economy of Sri Lanka. Tourism directly affected to economy of a country. Development of tourist hotels in Sri Lanka will extremely support the rapid economic development. Developments of tourist hotels, increase room capacities, increase occupancy rates and develop the condition of rooms and upgrade the service provided in the hotels are the key factors to be mainly focused on if to develop tourism. Tourist hotel industry should be developed in most of the famous city for tourism with sufficient amount of tourist hotels 30. Negative images, lack of foreign exchange for tourism development, lack of skilled manpower, weak institutional frameworks for tourism planning, political instability caused by communal violence, civil war conflicts are inhibitors to tourism development. However, little is known about how international tourism firms perceive political risks and other general barriers and threats to tourism promotion in Sri Lanka. 31. Last thirty years Sri Lanka also faced the civil war and it affected the tourism industry of country. Some of the foreign countries have reject Sri Lankas products in their country due to the violation of human rights during the war time. Currently Sri Lanka is having negative relationship with some foreign countries therefore the export and import of Sri Lankan products will be decreased and it affects the tourism industry as well. 32. Sri Lankas proximity to source markets such as India and its connectivity to the Middle East and China will help in sustaining tourism growth. To ensure rapid growth of tourism in the future, tourism projects will need to be balance with infrastructure development. We expect the existing hotels to undertake phased renovations to effectively compete with the upcoming hotels. We also expect the hotel companies, especially the domestic companies located in the country to undertake long and medium term hospitality training programs and regularly undertake competition benchmarking for compensation to retain the talent. RECCOMONDATIONS 33. These are the recommendations which we can produce in related to tourism. Develop a marketing strategy: Emphasizing the creation and sustaining of a positive image of Sri Lanka as a substantive and well-established tourist destination offering facilities experiences that are distinct Sri Lankan products. Establish a domestic tourism strategy: To expand the existing product base and encourage a greater level of holiday movements in addition to pilgrim movements. Develop goods and services: To meet the increasing needs of the tourism industry, and thus optimize the economic benefit of tourism development to Sri Lanka. Modify the organization of tourism activities: In order to bring about related improvements in the private sector, increase coordination between tourism and interrelated sectors, and introduce streamlining to facilitate the development of the tourism sector. Emphasize the environmental, social and cultural aspects: Tourism Development Planning is the only way to solve many issues related to tourism in development. Therefore the tourism planning process should be designed to produce goals and objectives for the destination area related to tourism development. The tourism development plan provides overall guidelines for development and identifies development opportunities. Many development countries are involved in tourism planning. Financial Assistance: Financial assistance for hotel owners and any other profession in tourist sector would help to create more employment opportunities. Domestic Airport: Airport also more than 100 km away from the tourist destination it is needed have domestic airports. Surfing Training: This will create more employment opportunities and generate good income. Among the tourists there are some people they love for surfing and keen to learn. Conduct Language Teaching: Language barrier should be overcome by conducting specially job oriented language training. Employ Combat Divers: Surfing is risky and adventure sport it dont take much time for some to happen therefore as precautionary measure it is needed some combat divers close to the surfing area it would enhance the confidence of people who do surfing. Proper Taxi Service: Taxi service should be reformed introducing good vehicles fixed with meter system and giving training for drivers. Improve Infrastructure Facilities: Infrastructure facilities such as Power, Highways, Railways, Airports, Ports, Water Supply, Telecommunications, Accommodations, and Recreational, Shopping and Banking to be improved. Awareness Programs: Tourists should be informed on specific social, cultural and religious environment programmed. GAD ALWIS SLE Maj STUDENT OFFICER -DSCSC

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As a mother figure, we would expect her to be a stereotypical Victorian Woman. Not only would she have to do all the domestic work, but also care and nurture her children, or in this case Pip. However, this is not quite the case with Mrs Joe. In many cases, when a mother brings up her child â€Å"by hand,† she would care and nurture for her child with a lot of love. Mrs Joe however, has adopted a different style of bringing up Pip, â€Å"by hand†. She hits and slaps Pip, to bring him into line, and there is no evidence in the story that shows Mrs Joe loves Pip like she is expected to. This distant relationship is shown in the above quote. As Mrs Joe has an apron full of needles and pins, Pip cannot get close to her physically, and so this image of a young child clinging to its mother’s apron, is lost. This shows that as a woman in the Victorian times, this expectation of caring and nurturing your child with love is highly expected, but Dickens’ has created a character that has completely overturned any expectation. As mentioned before, the image of a Victorian Woman is very stereotypical, but in Dickens’ book, this is reversed because in ch 22 we see Mrs Pocket doing the total opposite. Although we do not see her or anyone do the housework, we can assume that because of the wealth her and her husband have that hired help is doing the domestic work. In the family, there are a number of young children who need to be nurtured by their mother, but always seem to be handed to the nannies, while she does something or the other, like reading a book about class. A subject that seems very important to her, maybe because of her up bringing in the higher-class society. â€Å"Mrs Pocket was sitting on a garden chair under a tree, reading, with her legs upon another garden chair; and Mrs Pocket’s two nursemaids, were looking about them while the children played† pg 186. The dependence on money is probably the main factor of how high a persons position is in society. This shows that Victorian Woman of high class know what little domestic work they have to do, and this is all due to their great wealth that they have. The dependence on money, and position in society is linked, represented by other various Victorian Women in the book. Mrs Joe seemed to be very excited about the fact that Pip had been invited over to a rich lady’s house (Miss Havisham), and immediately questioned him about how it went, after his first meeting with her. She thought that because of Pip meeting with her, maybe she could have some kind of â€Å"connection† with her, and the higher class. Ch 8 â€Å"With that she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under water butts, and I was soaped and kneaded, and towelled†¦ † pg 52. This shows that she wanted to make a good impression, to make herself look good through Pip, by how neat and well he looked, because of her efforts. A woman of a low class feels the need to know a person of much higher status than them, because they know about the great amount of luxury, the higher class live in, and the amount of wealth they have which could lead them (the lower class) to have a brighter future. Finally, we learn about Molly, Clara, and Miss Skiffins. Molly, as we soon find out is Estella’s mother, a former convict and now Jaggers’ housekeeper. This makes Estella’s position in society lower because of her family. Not much is known about her. Clara, Herbert’s wife is someone we can assume as being like Biddy, but not at all influential upon Pip, like Biddy. Finally Miss Skiffins, Wemmick’s wife is also one of the characters we know very little about, but looks after Wemmick’s father, the stereotypical image of a housewife is shown in â€Å"Great Expectations† very well. Usually a female, a housekeeper, is one who obeys her master, and does not intrude in what is going on in her master’s affairs. This is shown in Molly and Jaggers relationship, although she has to do this as Jaggers is doing this as a favour. So as shown, there are many sides to a Victorian woman in this novel, and a few of the main characters that are influential on Pip, are very cold hearted, (Estella, Miss Havisham and Mrs Joe). I believe that Miss Havisham is so pitiless and spiteful that she adopted a young girl to seek out revenge on all men, just because of what happened to her. I also think that this book explores the many sides of a Victorian Woman very well, because the stereotypical image of Victorian Women being those who stay at home and do all the domestic work is overturned. 1)*According to Great Expectations what is a â€Å"Gentlemen†? In Great Expectations the word â€Å"Gentlemen† is shown in many different ways by different characters. You can tell this by the things they say, what they do and what others say about them. The main people who show this are Pip, Joe and Magwitch. Pip Pumblechook – Throughout the rest of the novel, he will shamelessly take credit for Pip’s rise in social status, even though he has nothing to do with it, since Magwitch, not Miss Havisham, is Pip’s secret benefactor. Drummle In his mind, Pip has connected the ideas of moral, social, and educational advancement so that each depends on the others. The coarse and cruel Drummle, a member of the upper class, provides Pip with proof that social advancement has no inherent connection to intelligence or moral worth. Drummle’s negative example helps Pip to see the inner worth of characters such as Magwitch and Joe, and eventually to discard his immature fantasies about wealth and class in favor of a new understanding that is both more compassionate and more realistic.

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Question: Discuss About The Decision Investment In Accounting Software? Answer: Introduction There are many companies in Australia which are making the use of the accounting software to record and process the business transaction. This software integrates the many functions of the business for conducting the business process smoothly. In the report the process of selecting of the accounting software by the Bakery has been discussed and the way it will help in improving the current process of the business. The report makes the comparison between the different software from different website to meet out the current need of the Bakery. Define business process The B Bakery is the family owned business and engaged in the business over the past 50 years and supplies Bread and confectionary product to the number of different business including supply and food chain. The firm in the past few year has experienced growth in some of the new product range thus felt the requirement of new software to take the business to next level. The current business process of the B Bakery requires the use of certain units such as production, sales, marketing, HR and accounting and finance which coordinate with each other to deliver product and service to the customer. The Supply chain management unit ensures that the production unit is available with the right resources at the right place and right time. The unit also manages the inventory and ensures that the goods and service are delivered to the customer at the right place and right time (Grabski, et. al., 2011). The production unit ensures the goods are prepared as per the requirement of the top level mana gement and makes effort to minimize the wastage of the resources. The account and finance department of the business will manage the financial resources and records all the key financial transaction of the business. The unit records the transaction as per the regulation set by the government and preparation of books of accounts as per the guidelines provided by the regulating authority. The unit also provides the information to different stakeholder to make informed decision in relation to the business. The human resource department of the company makes the arrangement of the human resources to effectively conduct the production and other function of the business (Saracina, 2012). They also fulfill the relevant regulation in relation to the human resources and handle the issue which they face at the time of working. The marketing unit of the company is working to communicate with the customer the benefit which the company is offering through its product and service. The unit is working in coordination with the other unit of the business to deliver a quality product to the customer (Malini?, et. al., 2010). The each of the unit of the Bakery is dependent upon each other and needs to work by coordinating to attain the business goals and objective. If any of the units fails it will affect the overall outcome of the company thus the management needs to equally emphasize over each of the units to attain the growth in the market. In the current situation, the B Bakery is facing the issue with the accounting department which thus fails to manage the existing operation. Therefore the company is planning to acquire new accounting system to effectively manage the growing business expansion. The company is planning to include the certain feature in the accounting system which will assist the management in making a key decision in relation to the business. Develop business requirement Process to be performed The each of the process is important but the B Bakery is lacking in accounting and finance department of the business is lacking. The company has shown the tremendous growth in the product in the past few years but due to certain issue in the accounting department is facing difficulty in managing current business operation (Dameri, et. al., 2013). The company has acquired the accounting expert for bookkeeping but the department doesnt provide the information to the management to make a key decision in relation to the business. Due to the same the company has failed to offer the product to the customer at the competitive price which creates impact over the company current market. The management of the B Bakery will require certain reports from the accounting system which generate some report to assist the management in making the key decision in relation to the business (Shields Shelleman, 2011). The information will assist the management in making a strategic decision which will hel p the company to grow its business. The company in order to meet out the current business need is planning to acquire the new accounting software with the few of the requirement. The company requires that the software assist them in quickly recording and processing information and easy availability of the information. The company also requires that the software should integrate the business process for better decision making. The company also wants that the new software fits with the existing structure of the organization and doesnt require much change in the organization structure. Outcome of the process The B Bakery wants certain outcome from the process which helps the company in attaining better performance in the market by working with a certain key aspect of the business. The company requires the software which makes data entry quicker and the database of the customer supplier and detail are recorded in the effective way (Schiff Szendi, 2014). The company requires that the software automatically production of the reports and document such as invoices, purchase order, credit note, printing statement, profitability report etc. The company also needs to check that the software provides the accurate information and there is no issue in processing the information. The transactions recorded by the company should be automatically updated to provide the updated information to the users of the software. Also, the software should automatically create the backup of the software over the cloud which makes the instant availability of the information to the different user's operation at the different location at the same time. The company requires that the software produces a certain report which will help the management to monitor and control the business such as aged debtor analyze, trading, profit and loss and balance sheet of the company. Also, the software should facilitate automatic creation of the GST/VAT return and the printed information to avoid the error caused by the poor figure (Pulakanam Suraweera, 2010). The software should also assist the company to identify the area where the company lacks to improve the outcome of the business. Also, it will require training the staff to the new skill which can make them feel motivated and less critical to the business operation. The software will also reduce the outcome of the staff timing doing the accounting and reduce the accounting and auditing expenses which will benefit the company in the long run. Also, the software will reduce the frustration of the management as they divert there focus over the key area of the business. The software will also integrate the business process and the system used for the business process which will help the company in earning more revenue (Pfeifer, et. al., 2017). Determine the system requirement There are several accounting features that B Bakery can adopt to achieve their IT requirements. However the best accounting software should necessarily have these features which are as follows: Flexible setup: As the business grows, the operations of the organization become more complex and compound in nature. Supplier of software should be willing to completely customize B Bakery system on their needs. B Bakery should mandatorily discuss how the IT system handles complex business situations, divisions and sites of their business (Woodard, et. al., 2013). They should also focus on discussing the matters like how the software will help in business future growth and expansion. Comparability: Accounting software to be known as good, should have a better-known feature of easy to access reports which can be easily accessible and are comparable across different parts of the B Bakery to analyze and identify the trends. For the comparable feature, the accounting report must have the same measurement unit, belongs to a particular period and also have a common format for making accounting reports (Davidson, et. al., 2010). Comparability is an essential feature of any accounting IT software. For the final analysis, the reports should be in a format of comparing them with the other year reports of B Bakery. Relevance: Any information which influences the decisions of business should be regarded as relevant information. The information must be available on time and having a considerable and enough detailed level of showing diverse trends and comparisons between different units of business and different years that encourages or motivates to level up in the business (Winch, 2014). Relevant information can be used only if it should be provided on time without any error so the accounting software should be in a state in which it should provide error free reports to B Bakery. Integration with other systems: Business units having medium sized operations may be using dozens of systems in the organizations which may be of downgraded technology to the limit that amalgamating their data with the other system is not that easy task which can easily take less time on the upgraded systems. While choosing a provider B Bakery should find the answers to these questions, else they may regret in the future for their decisions. Tensile access levels: B Bakery should remember about the security of their significant and relevant information. For this feature, B Bakery should understand that negligence of employee leads to the high level of data breaches. The access level of the new IT system should be flexible with the staff, employees and other managerial individuals. Unlike other business softwares that are having a very rigid access and security levels like administrator and guest. B Bakery should choose software that allows more flexibility to the employees and staff of the organization like access through number range like 0-100. This approach will allow B Bak ery to differentiate the level and stage of employees with more accuracy something which is very beneficial if they are working with any temporary employee or any intern (Opera II, et. al., 2011). Easy to understand: The IT software should be easily understandable by the employees and the staff of B Bakery. The more guess work includes in work the more, the more vulnerable B Bakery is to error. B Bakery should understand the fact that the accounting software should be easy to understand and has a user-friendly nature so that it has a chance to being implemented in the organization with its full capacity. Ability to handle massive user volumes: It is a difficult task to handle a large no. of users volume for the systems accessing same software. Many software providers restrict the no. of registered users of software on the other hand if more than a no. of handful users trying to get access to the system would result in the slowdown of the IT system. B Bakery is having a good no. o f staff which in term reflects the same problem; B Bakery should definitely approach the software provider about the maximum no. of users that can realistically enter the software concurrently before the system smashes to stop (AccountsIQ, et. al., 2011 Software selection There is a wide range of accounting software available in the market thus the management of B Bakery should make the choice of the accounting software as per the current size and level of operation. The B Bakery is the medium size enterprise thus requires limited feature in the accounting software to effectively manage the business process. The management of the company has visited many of the sites such as XERO, MYOB, QuickBooks, and NetSuite etc., to find the software as per the current requirement of the business. Entry level accounting There are many of the company which is operating at the smaller level such as sole proprietorship and Micro enterprise and requires the software for recording the general accounting information. These organizations require basic accounting function and are easily available over the internet free of cost or at the nominal amount. The many of the retailer uses the software to add coordinate with the existing build in the system. Small to medium level enterprise The B Bakery is the medium size enterprise which requires certain additional feature apart from the basic level of accounting. The company demand generation of the certain report apart from the basic accounting function which assists the management in making a key decision in relation to the business (Trigo, et. al., 2014). At this level, the software performs certain additional function apart from the basic level of accounting as there are many of the users simultaneously working over the software to conduct the business in an effective way. The software also generates a certain report which provides a competitive advantage by differentiating company service from its competitor. Enterprise accounting These organization are big in size and but the software for this enterprise are advanced and robust as the organization has too many transactions. The software is pretty much similar to those of small and medium enterprise and offers an unlimited number of simultaneous users and integrates the different function of the business (Nagel Otterbein, 2015). The software has advanced security feature and is costly in comparison to the basic software Vendor selection The management of the B Bakery needs to make the comparison of the feature of the different software and make the choice of the software which fulfills the existing requirement of the company. The management needs to make the comparison between the various accounting and fianc product to identify the top application as per the specific need of the organization. The current rating of the Sage 300 ERP is 9.3, on the other hand, the QuickBooks enterprise has the score of 9.4. The Sage 300 ERP earned 100% for the users satisfaction whereas QuickBooks entries earned 95%. Basis Sage 300 ERP QuickBooks enterprise General information The software is to help the small and mid-sized business to manage their resource in an effective way through the use of the employee resource planning program. It is the smart software for small size business enterprise to outgrow the entry level accounting program with the familiarity of the signature QuickBooks. Pricing model Monthly payment, Quoted payment Monthly payment and annual subscription Type of the customer Small business and medium size enterprise (Opera II, et. al., 2011). Small business and medium size enterprise a feature of the software Accounting and finance Business intelligence and reporting Inventory management and warehousing Manufacturing Purchasing and supplier management Sales and customer management Reporting and finances Sales and customer management Payroll and employees Advance inventory management Advance pricing strategy Field service management Purchasing vendor User satisfaction The company has created behavior based customer satisfaction algorithm and gather the customer review across the wide range of social media sites. The company has 171 positive social mention and 8 negative responses which are presented in easy to digest form showing how the people responded to the software (Schiff Szendi, 2014). Overview of the software The Sage 300 is the easy to use and comprehensive enterprise planning system and allows the companies to make the use of the function as per their current need (Winch, et. al., 2014). The price of the software is adjustable as per the feature used as per the current business requirement. The product is stable and easily customized And allows the system to records the budget in all the records. The software provides the choice of pre-built and re-defined template to improve the financial operation of the company. The software has the highest security and protection precautions to avoid harm to corporate operation. The software also facilitates storage of the data over the cloud with easy import and export option (Woodard, 2013). The software has the income tracker feature which helps the management to view the transaction in relation to the income. The software also assists in recording the transaction from multiple bank accounts at one place (Machera Machera, 2017). It also combines report from multiple company files and creates the professional financial statement. Also, it facilitates the export of the data to a new file to create the custom report. It also helps in better management of the inventory The software also facilitates better tracking of sales and the customer to better manage the business (Pulakanam Suraweera, 2010). The software also generates key employee information instantly and better management of the payroll and employee. The software has the advanced security feature which prevents the data from theft. Most suitable vendor The B Bakery as per the current requirement of the business should go with the QuickBooks as it is having many customized feature as per the current requirement of the business. The software is easy to use and is customer oriented and even the company without the big accounting department can make the use of the software. Also, the software will help in easily managing the taxes by automatically generating the Tax report as per the requirement of the regulatory authority (Hingorani, et. al., 2015). The vendor is also customizing the product as per the current requirement of the business and to cover all the key financial area. The software is leading in the term of security and adaptability to new technology and can be accessed through any type of modern devices which makes the life of the owner easier. Also, the software has many integration tools which help in increasing the efficiency of the business. The software will save lots of time and increase the efficiency of the business by making the use of shortcut and the other working tool to make the accounting easier. The software direct the company to be innovative towards the product and open thinking as it increases the productivity of the company and motivate the employee to be open towards the innovation to make the company better (Machera Machera, 2017). The B Bakery can go with the QuickBooks rather than much other similar products in the market as the software provide various offers and saves lots of effort and money which can be used for the benefit of the company. The users of the QuickBooks are rapidly increasing and their plan has reached over 10 million of the active customer as it is customer oriented and meeting the rising needs of the new customer. Also, the software has better-automated backup service which keeps the financial data of customer safe and secure thus increases the trust of the users. The software focuses on small business which can earn a higher profit and grow with the use of the software. The software is regarded as powerful and useful software by most of the business and is ideal software for different type and sizes of business (Nagel Otterbein, 2015). The software simplifies the accounting, tracking, and reporting and assists in managing the finance of the business in an effective way thus help to attain business growth. Conclusion So it can be concluded from the above study that the accounting software increases the efficiency of the business by making better use of resources. The report has provided us an understanding of the way acquiring new software will assist the B Bakery in managing its operation in a better way. It has provided us an understanding of the feature required by the company to improve the current efficiency of the business. 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