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BKAM
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
BKAM 3033

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

NADIAH QURRATU’AINI BINTI JAMALUDIN
222156

PREPARED FOR :
DR. HASNAN BIN AHMAD
GROUD E

Assalamualaikum and good morning. First of all I would like to thank to my lecture of BKAM 3033, Dr. Hasnan bin Ahmed who was teaching and conducting me to do this assignment. Also, I would like to thank to all my friends for supporting and gives some adviced to me until I finished my worked. My title for this assignment was, “Discuss how the changing technology gives an impact on management accounting practices?”

INTRODUCTION What is the technology changing? Technological change is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or any process can be do. Invention is a unique, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. An invention that achieve a completely unique function or result be a radical breakthrough. The innovation is a new idea, device or process. Innovation can be view as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in articulate needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and more effective and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society. Innovation is different from invention because in that innovation it refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation different from improvement because in that innovation it refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better. The term of technological changes also known as technological

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