THE IMPACT OF USING ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON THE QUALITY OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE INCOME AND SALES TAX DEPARTMENT IN JORDAN

This study aim to demonstrate the use of the accounting information systems’ impact on the quality of financial statements submitted to the Income Tax and Sales department in Jordan and the impact of such use, where Income Tax and Sales department works to collect tax money and auditing on tax payers in order to supply the state treasury with public revenues, a questionnaire consists of fourteen questions was designed by the researcher to measure the impact of the use of accounting information systems on the quality of financial statements submitted to the department, this questionnaire was distributed on 50 accountants who work in the department, all distributed questionnaires were retrieved, arithmetic mean and standard deviation have been extracted to describe the answers of the study sample, Cronbach's alpha test was used to measure the stability of measurement tool and also simple linear regression test was also used to test the hypothesis of the study. The study found that there is a presence of an impact when using the accounting information systems on the quality of financial statements submitted to the Income Tax and sales Department in Jordan, the study recommends to focus on the development of the devices used in the department, train and development of the staff on an ongoing basis to enable them to continue to perform their jobs and improve the quality of financial statements in the department