IT components of interest include the various devices for entering data, pro-
cessing data, communicating data from place to place, and generating information. As an accounting student, you likely are already acquainted with microcomputers
and the Internet. In fact, you may use a standalone (or networked) microcomputer to
•‘ perform accounting homework assignments; perhaps during your "free time" you use
the microcomputer for recreational games or for "surfing the net."