Kudler

Kudler

Introduction

Kudler Fine Foods is the food supplier store in the area of San Diego (Apollo Group, Inc, 2010). This food industry opened 3 stores, the very first food store name is La Jolla, food store that opened after this is named as Del Mar and the name of the third food store is Encinitas. Kudler Fine Foods has got a variety of international and local beverages and food including condiments, bakery, and wine, packaged items of foods, cheese, seafood, dairy food and meat. In this paper we will evaluate information technology and accounting systems of the Kudler Fine Food. We will consider the consider the accounting and business needs of the Kudler, current software and hardware, weaknesses and strengths existing computer system, examine prospects for improving the use of technology, we will also consider the risk related to the existing computer system and will provide recommendations to enhance the business management ability of the Kudler Fine Food

Accounting and Business Needs

Relating to the overall accounting and business needs of the Kudler Foods, the basic needs are sales, maintenance, marketing of information technology, management of human resource, relations with the consumers, advertising and communications. The accounting requirements fro the Kudler includes purchasing, payroll, accounts payable, service dealing point, accounts receivable, capital resources, reconciliations for bank, common ledger and inventory. It is necessary that the needs of Kudler Fine Foods are met in a way that must be cost effective in order to make the Kudler Foods maintain their leading quality in present and future customer base. We need to consider the existing computer system that the Kudler utilizes in order to meet the present and future satisfaction of the customer that is desired by the Kudler.

Present Security

The present information technology system that is used by Kudler does not merely limit their possibilities of expanding their business; however, this system also establishes weakness as it does not provide sufficient protocols for the security of the system. The current system is protected by the password and also have the capability of backup, however the business is not functioning in a secured set of connections, there is no encryption for the system, the ID numbers are not used for the identification of the employees, the usage of computer is not properly monitored, in addition to this the unprotected and open line of the internet can provide great opportunities for professional of hacking that are finding the chance of gaining access to the databases of the credit cards that are stored. These concerns might have the probable effects to seriously have an affect on the operation of the Kudler; excessive productivity loss (unmonitored usage of the computer by an employee) might result in failure of duties and ultimate economic distress, this might put at risk their enduring business status and economical security, not to take into consideration the viable action of law for not including a secured system for the purpose of storing credit card and customer information.

Existing Software and Hardware

Currently, the Kudler uses ...