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Computers Before the widespread use of computers, managers could not make full use of large amounts of valuable information about a companys activities. The information either reached managers too late or was too late or was too expensive to be used. Today, managers are facing a wide range of data processing and information instruments. In place of a few financial controls, managers The introduction of computerized information systems has sharply changed management control in many companies. Even a neighborhood shopkeeper may now use computers to control sales, billing, and other activities. In large companies, electronic data processing systems monitor entire projects and sets of operations. One research found that business firms were more successful in teaching basic information about computers to business graduates than they were in teaching business subjects to computer science graduates. A. Right C. Not mentioned A. Right C. Not mentioned A. Right C. Not mentioned a 10% of American citizens possess a microcomputer. B. Wrong 5. One thing that managers do not have to understand is how computers work. B. Wrong 6. In some case managers have to learn how to write programs so as to work out computerized information systems that suit their own companies best. | 
