One day closings

Turner Construction Company operates 20 offices throughout the United States. Prior to January 1985, the company's accounting was centralized, but its management was decentralized, which led to a great deal of duplication of financial records, and slowed down the consolidation and closing of Turner's financial records related to daily transactions. The company solved this problem by implementing a information system in which each office bypassed the company's mainframe and ran a trial balance on the office microcomputer. An accounting and communications program designed by IMRS, a Connecticut software firm, was implemented for the reporting and consolidation of financial data.