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What does stewardship mean, and what is its role in an information system?

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Explain the stewardship and its role in information system.

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Accounting Information System:

The system which helps to gather, store and process the accounting and financial information of a company is known as accounting information system. Internal users report the accounting data to external users for taking investing decision.

Stewardship can be defined as the job of supervise and manage the resources of a company. Stewardship must do better planning and management to run a smooth and efficient business operations...

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