Abstract This article presents information on several educational computer software and their manuals. One of the softwares titled "If/then ..." which has been brought out by If/then Solutions, 1 Mallorca Way, Suite 301, San Francisco consists of a 166 page spirally bound manual and a floppy disk containing Lotus templates. The manual introduces such artificial intelligence fundamentals as backward chaining, forward chaining, knowledge representation, demons and inheritance, and uncertainty. The manual and templates provide a hands-on environment for working a series of artificial intelligence models. Although none of the examples used are from an accounting environment, the examples are such that students with a rudimentary knowledge of Lotus can easily relate to and find interesting. Another software titled "CABIS: (Computer-Aided Bookkeeping Instruction System)," presents a new approach to computerized accounting practice sets. Rather than mimicking commercial accounting software capable of generating tickler files, financial statements, cash journals, etc., CABIS performs as an "expert tutor" to assist the student in learning basic bookkeeping.
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