A survey of determinants of data quality in accounting information system in tourism industry in Kenya
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Date
2016-11Author
Mugilwa, Nixon S
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Organizations within the Tourism industry in Kenya have executed or have adopted an accounting
system that implementation is in progress in order to provide valuable information to the
stakeholders including the policy makers i.e the board of Directors. This improves the performance
of the organization and increase revenue from the tourism sector which leads to the growth of the
Kenyan Economy. The study has been conducted so that it can establish the determinants of data
quality in accounting information system. The literature review did an evaluation of prior studies
done in data quality from different perspectives, quality management as far are company is
concern and accounting information systems adopted by the various entities. It was established
there was a clear lack of enough literature about determinants of DQ in AIS. Since there was a gap
in the literature and the findings of the exploratory stage of the research, a framework for
understanding relationships between staff training and education, information infrastructure and
internal controls on data quality in accounting information systems was also developed. The major
stakeholders are information producers, information custodians, information managers,
information users, and internal auditors. The target population were the senior staff in charge of
accounting information system and other ICT officers in the department in the selected parastatals.
A preliminary survey had been conducted by making phone calls to those parastatals to inquire
the number of staff members in the ICT department and indicated that there is a total of thirty one
such staff members. Since the number is small a complete census was done. The study used
questionnaire to gather the primary data. The questionnaires were administered using drop-andpick
later method. The received questionnaires were first checked for completeness. The
researcher then coded the respective responses as per the research questions using the statistical
packages for social sciences (SPSS) to derive the desired output on the adopted linkert scale. The
collected data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics. From
this research, in order to attain success in AIS, the entity that is implementing the system should
ensure that proper measures are in place for both the organizational and system factors that may
influence the system in one way or another. Further there should exist a synergy within the
stakeholders who are involved in the system and data quality controls to ensure that data quality
in AIS is achieved. In summary, Strong internal controls, Training and education and information
technology infrastructure are fundamental variables that need to be present for any implementation
of accounting information systems programs to be successful.
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University of Nairobi
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