Digitized Accounting and Obstacles to Optimized Strategic Decisions

The rapid developments in technology have brought about significant changes regarding accounting information extraction as a tool for optimized administrative and strategic decisions. The implementation of electronic bookkeeping as a dynamic application, combined with the continuous renewal of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), has modified accounting functions. The impacts of technology, the imposition of innovative reforms in the public administration system, the effects of COVID-19 and the continuous need for accounting reforms, shaped in Greece an economic and accounting system of particular research interest. The research approaches accounting management, the impacts of digitalization and the main advantages and obstacles of the ever evolving technological transition. The aim of this paper is to create a tool that utilizes the existing levels of technological training and correlate it with digitization’s weaknesses and opportunities discerning an optimized approach of modern technologies in accounting administration. Results highlight the positive response to the updates of digitization demonstrated in accounting, with the simultaneous resistance to change due to increasing workloads. In the aforementioned economic environment, focused monitoring of both methods and rate of utilizing an evolving technology, combined with the human factor could enable a smoother transition of accounting digitalization and optimized administrative decisions.