This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand and accounting
and management information systems on the other. In particular it addresses topics including
cloud computing data mining XBRL and digital platforms. It presents an analysis of how new
technologies can reshape accounting and management information systems enhancing their
information potentialities and their ability to support decision-making processes as well as
several studies that reveal how managerial information needs can affect and reshape the
adoption of digital technologies. Focusing on the four major aspects data management
information system architecture external and internal reporting the book offers a valuable
resource for CIOs CFOs and more generally for business managers as well as for researchers
and scholars. It is mainly based on a selection of the best papers - original double blind
reviewed contributions - presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of the
Association for Information Systems (AIS).