Accounting computerization in a broad sense refers to all the work related to the computerization of accounting work, including the development and application of accounting computerization software, the training of accounting computerization personnel, the macro-planning of accounting computerization, the construction of the accounting computerization system, and the cultivation and development of the accounting computerization software market.

Accounting computerization, also known as computer accounting, refers to the electronic computer as the main body of information technology in the application of accounting, specifically, is the use of accounting software, commanded in a variety of computer equipment to replace the manual completion or in the manual under the difficult to complete the accounting work process.

Accounting computerization is based on electronic computers as the main body of contemporary electronic technology and information technology applied to the accounting practice in the abbreviation, is an application of electronic computers to achieve the accounting information system. It realizes the automation of data processing, so that the development of the traditional manual accounting information system evolved into a computerized accounting information system.

Accounting computerization is a major revolution in the history of accounting development, it is not only the development of accounting needs, but also economic and scientific and technological requirements for accounting work.