For an expanded version of this story, travel to:Often, when people think of what computers can do, there's talk of the "virtual classroom" and the "virtual office." A new center at the Indiana University School of Business in Bloomington will show how technology is affecting the accounting industry by bringing both of these environments together. Last month, the school dedicated the Price Waterhouse Center for Information Technology.
Once enslaved by a now cumbersome dependence on paper records and their physical location, accountants today have ready access to critical information used in advising clients, and it doesn't matter where the accountants are. They even would be able to consult with clients from the new, fully-integrated 80-computer work station classroom on the second floor of the IU School of Business.
In the new classroom, the students' computers will be interconnected by a local area network commanded by a professor in the classroom. In addition to allowing them to interact with professors and each other, the LAN will provide access to Price Waterhouse's specialized software and other research tools used by the firm.
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