The second major advance supplies the required tools: the availability of personal computers (PCs, online analytic programs (OLAP), and decision-support systems (DSS) The PC serves as a communications link to the company's information system, and OLAP and DSS supply managers with the capability to use that information. PCs and software aids are available to managers in all types of organizations. Often, a PC acts as a networking terminal and is connected to an organization's database, allowing managers to access information more quickly, do their own analyses, and prepare many of their own reports. The ability to enhance the accuracy of product costing is now available Because of advances in information technology, cost accountants have the flexibility to respond to the managerial need for more complex product costing methods such as activity-based costing (ABC).