The Misha Sep 5, 2018:

Computerized accounting then Or computer-based.

Natalia Pashkovskaya (asker) Sep 5, 2018:

It's really a thing from the past. Sorry I didn't mention it in the first place. That's the graduate thesis of a person who studied long time ago.

Oleg Lozinskiy Sep 4, 2018:

Please, explain what, in your view, is... ...sensible (rather than 'understandable') English (American, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Australian, New Zelandese, Indian (in the U.S. and India), etc.

And... 'international English' (like 'international dollars' commonly used in 'international reports')???

The Misha Sep 4, 2018:

No wonder there is no separate term for this in sensible English. This seems to have been written at the time when I was still hiding my smokes from my parents. In modern day accounting, all of this is presumed and requires no additional explanation. One could say "computer-based accounting" but even that would be superfluous, because like I said, all accounting these days is computer-based. This is like explaining the benefits and advantages of cars over horse-drawn buggies or emphasizing that you use a hammer to drive nails with.

Regardless, "non-/semi-native translators/interpretators" thank former members of the nomenclatura for for this highly educational nugget.

Oleg Lozinskiy Sep 4, 2018:

To: non-/semi-native translators/interpretators Теория бухгалтерского учета
Дараева Юлия Анатольевна

46. Таблично-автоматизированная форма учета

В последнее время все большую распространенность получает автоматизированная форма бухгалтерского учета. Такой форме свойственна последовательность обработки информации: машинный носитель информации – ЭВМ.

Организации активно оснащаются многофункциональными проблемно-ориентированными мини-ЭВМ – компьютерами, которые позволяют накапливать данные непосредственно в традиционных учетных регистрах (карточках, листах и др.) и на машинных носителях информации (диске, дискете, барабане, перфоленте, магнитной ленте и др.).

Компьютеры просты и удобны в эксплуатации, что позволяет снабдить ими рабочие места бухгалтеров и на их основе создавать автоматизированные рабочие места (АРМ) бухгалтера.

Использование машинно-ориентированных форм учета обеспечивает:

1) высокую точность учетных данных; оперативность данных учета;

2) механизацию и во многом автоматизацию учетного процесса;

3) увязку всех видов учета и планирования, поскольку они используют одни и те же носители информации;
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https://econ.wikireading.ru/10116

The Misha Sep 4, 2018:

Multitran mnogo v chem uveryayet I vsyo nevpopad. I am a US-trained bookkeeper, among other things, and I just can't quite understand what this Russian gem actually means. The accounting system used in the US is routinely referred to as GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) that, like all modern accounting systems, is based on double-entry T-accounts. Naturally, no one does those manually anymore and no one uses paper ledgers for anything remotely complicated, so in this sense all bookkeeping is "automated," i.e. software-based. Now, if by the "table" part you mean an Excel spreadsheet, then sure, you can use Excel for some basic bookkeeping (I, for one, do), but that's just one of its numerous applications. So what's this formidable new word in accounting all about? Do you have a definition in Russian of what it is?