WO2002091278A2

WO2002091278A2 - Method for posting up accounts service via a network

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Publication number: WO2002091278A2
Application number: PCT/KR2002/000839
Authority: WO
Inventors: Sammook Yoo
Original assignee: Sejeon Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2001-05-07
Filing date: 2002-05-07
Publication date: 2002-11-14
Also published as: AU2002304178A1; KR20020085191A; AU2002304178A8; KR100474666B1; WO2002091278A3

Abstract

The invention consists of the following steps. At the first step, a member shop selects an accounting/taxation office through an on-line service server and acquires its location data. At a second step, the approved credit card settlement data of the member shop are transmitted to the selected accounting/taxation office. At a third step, the trasmitted data are automatically registered into an accounting book using an accounting program provided by the service server. At a forth step, the processed accounting data are stored in a memory of the service server and controlled by the service server. Finally the member shop can confirm the processed accounting data and myke use of it through the service server.

Description

METHOD FOR POSTING UP ACCOUNTS SERVICE VIA A NETWORK

Technical Field

The invention relates to a method for providing an on-line

accounting entry service, and more particularly, to a method for

processing accounting entry affairs for enterprisers using sales

information received from a credit card check reader of an enterpriser

by means of an accounting entry program provided by an ASP on the web

and allowing the enterprisers to confirm the results on the web.

Background Art

Generally, all the people liable to tax are subject to tax returns

such as periodical income returns by law. Since ordinary people usually

do not know the tax law or administration well, they thus request

management and vicarious execution of their tax and accounting affairs

to X a tax accountant or certified public accountant who is a specialist in

the corresponding field . As such, if the tax and accounting affairs are entrusted, an

entrusting person must pay a given amount of fees to a corresponding

tax accountant or certified public accountant. The tax accountant or

certified public accountant provides services for entry affairs on the

basis of sales data and evidence data provided by the enterpriser, and

vicariously executes filling of the customer's tax return such as income

tax return on the basis of the aforementioned data in addition.

Recently, the environment is created in which it is possible to

use easily information apparatuses and the Internet, and thus all of the

social systems are evolving such that the systems are processed by data

communication through communication networks.

At this time, required information from a customer who entrusted

tax and accounting affairs such as accounting entry to a tax account and

certified public accountant (e.g., sales information, purchase information)

will be transferred through data communication, and a lot of technology

will be required for appropriate implementation thereof.

On the other hand, the uses of credit cards rapidly increase as a

means to replace payment in cash. The use of credit cards is activated by sales promotion of credit card companies and governmental policies

such as the credit card lottery system and execution of the deduction-

from-income for the amount settled by credit cards introduced in order

to eliminate inconvenience and inaccuracy of calculation by a human,

inconvenient transport of changes, and to improve transparent

transactions thus to expose tax sources and to realize fair taxation.

Accordingly, most selling by an enterpriser is settled by credit

cards, and a credit card check reader is in turn used for the settlement

by credit cards. The credit card check reader can transmit data through a

communication network and the stable infrastructure for the transmission

has already been constructed, so that the reader can be used as a useful

data communication apparatus.

In addition, as the Internet develops, the ASP service is emerging

that allows on-line lending of a program. The ASP service is a new

software supply way in the Internet environment, which can be

understood as a type of application outsourcing for lending and providing

software on the web.

A general process for providing the ASP service is described in detail below. An ASP service provider constructs an application program

in his server and issues a program user ID to a customer. The customer

accesses to the ASP server through a dedicated line or the Internet,

executes the application program and then executes input, modification,

deletion, checking and output of data. In this case, the customer's data

are stored in his database separately assigned in the ASP server.

When he uses an application program in a special field such as

accounting management, however, the customer may make mistakes

such as data input errors resulting from lack of special knowledge.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention was conceived to overcome the aforementioned

disadvantages. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for

providing an on-line accounting entry service in which sales information

depending on settlement is transferred from a credit card check reader

of an enterpriser to an accounting/taxation office through data

communication in real time; the accounting/taxation office processes the

accounting entry affairs for the enterpriser, using an accounting entry program provided by the ASP on the web, on the basis of the transmitted

information; and the enterpriser can confirm the results on the web.

For the purpose, there is a service server for providing the

accounting program by the ASP on the web, which provides information

about a plurality of accounting/taxation offices to an enterpriser who

accesses thereto to allow the enterpriser to select a desired

accounting/taxation office, and provides system location information of

the selected accounting/taxation office to the enterpriser.

The credit card check reader of an enterpriser is provided with a

means for transmitting sales information depending on settlement to an

accounting/taxation office. A system in the accounting/taxation office is

provided with a means for receiving the information and a means for

storing the received sales information of the enterpriser.

For accounting entry affairs in an accounting/taxation office,

various information from an enterpriser will be provided through data

communication. For the purpose, according to the invention, a method is

first disclosed with respect to the case that information is provided for

selling by credit cards which conditions is excellent. Another objects and advantages of the invention will be

described hereinafter, and known from embodiments of the invention.

The objects and advantages of the invention may be accomplished by the

means and the combinations thereof described in appended claims. .

Brief Description of Drawings

The following drawings appended to this invention illustrates

preferred embodiments of the invention and will serve for better

understanding of technical spirit of the invention together with the

detailed description of the invention. Therefore, the invention should not

be limited to the drawings for being construed.

Fig.l shows a network system configuration in which a method for

providing an on-line accounting entry service according to the invention

is executed.

Fig.2 shows functional configurations of a credit card check

reader in the network system of Fig. 1 and a terminal in an

accounting/taxation office.

Fig.3 shows a functional configuration of a service server in the network system of Fig.1 according to the invention.

Fig.4 shows a drawing to describe a whole method for providing

an on-line accounting entry service according to the invention.

Fig.5 shows a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

enterpriser accesses to the service server to select a desired

accounting/taxation office and to register location information of the

system in the selected accounting/taxation office to the credit card check

reader.

Fig.6 shows a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

accounting/taxation office accesses to the service server and processes

accounting entry affairs for an enterpriser, using an accounting entry

program provided by an ASP.

Fig.7 shows a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

enterpriser accesses to the service server and confirm the accounting

entry result processed by an accounting/taxation office.

Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described in detail with reference to the appended drawings.

Prior to the description, it should be noted that terms and words

used in this specification and claims must not be limited and interpreted

to be typical or literal, and should be construed as the meaning and

concept conforming to the technical spirit of the invention on the basis

that the inventor can define the concept of the terms and words to

describe his invention in a best way.

Accordingly, since the embodiments described in this specification

and configurations shown the drawings are most preferred embodiments

only and do not represent all of technical spirit of the invention, it should

be understood that there may be various equivalents and exemplary

modifications that may replace them at the time of application of the

invention.

Now, with reference to Figs. 1 to 3, a configuration of a network

system is described with which the method for providing an on-line

accounting entry service is executed according to the invention.

The network system consists of a terminal 10 and a credit card

check reader 15 of an enterpriser, an on-line service server 20, a plurality of terminals 30 in accounting/taxation offices and a network 40

for connecting the components.

The enterpriser's terminal 10 is a client system used to access to

the service server 20 through the network 40, and is provided with such

a data communication means as a web-browser.

According to the invention, an enterpriser first accesses to the

service server 20 to select an accounting/taxation office for requesting

the accounting service and acquiring location information of the system

in the corresponding office.

The credit card check reader 15 is installed at the enterpriser

side, and transmits relevant sales information to the accounting/taxation

office selected through the network 40 when selling occurs depending on

settlement of a customer using a credit card.

For the purpose, a typical credit card check reader is provided

with a means for providing sales information which executes the

aforementioned function {see Fig. 2(A)}, wherein the means may be a

program, and the enterpriser registers location information of the system

in the accounting/taxation office selected to the sales information providing means 15a.

According to the invention, settlement by credit cards is

processed by means of the credit card check reader 15 in most cases,

but may be processed by a cash register or a Point Of Sales (POS)

terminal in a convenient store. Herein, the settlement is processed by a

credit card check reader 15 representatively, but the credit card check

reader 10 should be understood as a concept to include a cash register

and a POS terminal.

The service server 20 provides information about a plurality of

accounting/taxation offices to an enterpriser to support the enterpriser

when selecting a desired accounting/taxation office, and also provides

system location information of the selected accounting/taxation office.

The server 20 also provides an accounting entry program to an

accounting/taxation office in an Application Service Provider (ASP)

manner, and thus an accounting/taxation office stores and manages the

accounting entry results using the program.

Furthermore, the service server 20 allows an enterpriser to

access thereto and then to confirm or output the accounting entry results processed by an accounting/taxation office through web pages.

The terminal 30 in an accounting/taxation office is a system used

to acquire sales information transmitted from a credit card check reader

15 and accesses to the service server 20 to process accounting entry

affairs of a relevant enterpriser using an accounting entry program

provided by the ASP.

For the purpose, the terminal 30 of the accounting/taxation office

is provided with a means 30a for acquiring sales information, which is a

program for obtaining the sales information transmitted from the credit

card check reader 15, and further comprises an enterpriser's sales

information database 30b for storing the acquired enterpriser's sales

information {(see Fig. 2(B)}.

The network 40 connects the components 10, 15, 20 and 30

together for mutual data communication, wherein the network may be a

wired/wireless Internet or a public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Hereinafter, however, the invention is described, assuming that

the network 40 is the wired Internet based on the World Wide Web

(WWW) for convenience only, as a representative embodiment. However, the invention should not be limited to such an example.

Referring to Fig.3 schematically showing a functional

configuration of the aforementioned service server, the service server

20 consists of a server engine 22, a plurality of web pages 24, a support

module for supporting selection of an accounting/taxation office 26a, ASP

member management module 26b, a module for providing an ASP

accounting entry program 26c, a module for supporting confirming of

ASP accounting entry results 26d, an accounting/taxation office

information database 28a, an ASP member information database 28b, an

ASP accounting entry program database 28c, and an ASP member

assignment database 28d.

The server engine 22 provides various web pages to the systems

10 and 30 which accesses thereto, and also a platform for server-side

programs such as the modules 26a to 26d.

Herein, the web page 24 is preferably prepared in Hyper-Test

Markup Language (HTML) but not limited thereto if the page may be read

out by a computer system.

The module for supporting selection of an accounting/taxation office 26a is a program to support selection of a desired

accounting/taxation office by providing information about a plurality of

accounting/taxation offices to an enterpriser to access thereto, thus to

provide location information of a system of the selected

accounting/taxation office to the enterpriser, and interworks with the

accounting/taxation office information database 28a which stores the

information about a plurality of accounting/taxation offices.

The accounting/taxation office information database 28a consists

of such data items as office name, service type, service rates,

specialized business category, target areas, address, telephone numbers,

the e-mail address, system location information, etc.

The ASP member management module 26b is a program to

manage accounting/taxation offices which registered to use the

accounting entry program provided in the ASP manner as members,

stores and manages member information including member IDs,

passwords and the like in the ASP member information database 28b.

The ASP member information database 28b stores such data as

member IDs, passwords, names of offices, etc. The module 26c for providing the ASP accounting entry program

is a program to execute and provide the accounting entry program on the

web when an accounting/taxation office registered as a member accesses

thereto, and interworks with the ASP accounting entry program database

28c where the accounting entry program is stored.

The module 26c stores and manages the accounting entry results

processed by accounting/taxation offices by means of the accounting

entry program in the ASP member assignment database 28d which is a

storage place assigned to a relevant accounting/taxation office.

The module 26d for supporting confirming of the ASP accounting

entry results is a program to upload the accounting entry results

processed by an accounting/taxation office on the web pages when a

relevant enterpriser accesses thereto and then to provide the results,

extracts and provides the accounting entry results for a relevant

enterpriser from the aforementioned ASP member assignment database

28d.

Fig. 4 wholly describes a method for providing the on-line

accounting entry service according to the invention, and the key steps will be described in detail with reference to the figures hereinafter.

Fig.5 is a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

enterpriser accesses to the service server to select a desired

accounting/taxation office and to register location information about the

system of the selected accounting/taxation office to the credit card

check reader.

An enterpriser who intends to select an accounting/taxation office

accesses to the on-line service server (i.e., service site) 20, using a

computer 10 provided with a data communication means (S100).

For the access, the service server 20 can request execution of

member registration and login, and then the accessing enterpriser

selectively executes member registration and login for the request

(S102).

Then, the service server 20 transmits a web page including

various service menus, and then the enterpriser selects, for example, the

"Select an accounting/taxation office" menu among the service menus to

search information about a plurality of accounting/taxation offices

provided thereby (S104, S106), and selects a desired accounting/taxation office (S108).

In this case, the provided information about the

accounting/taxation offices may include service types, service rates,

specialized business categories, target areas, etc., and the enterpriser

selects a desired accounting/taxation office considering the information.

For the selection, the service server 20 provides such system

location information as the IP address of the selected accounting/taxation

office to the enterpriser (SI 10), and thus the enterpriser can acquire the

information (SI 12).

On the other hand, the service server (20) provides the

information about the selection and the enterpriser to the selected

accounting/taxation office which was selected by the enterpriser, by e-

mail, etc.

Thereby, the process ends in which an enterpriser selects a

desired accounting/taxation office and is provided with the location

information of the system in the selected accounting/taxation office.

The enterpriser who is provided with the location information of

the system in an accounting/taxation office registers the information to the sales information sending means 15a in a credit card check reader 15

(S114).

Thereby, sales information created by means of the credit card

check reader (15) is transmitted to a system 30 in an accounting/taxation

office in real time. The transmitted sales information is acquired by the

sales information acquisition means 30a in the system 30 of the

accounting/taxation office and then stored in the enterpriser's sales

information database 30b. The accounting/taxation office processes

accounting entry affairs for the relevant enterpriser, using the acquired

sales information of the enterpriser.

Now, the process in which selling by settlement in the credit card

check reader 15 occurs is described. When settlement of sales prices for

materials and services is requested by a credit card, the credit card

information of the customer is read by the credit card check reader and

the information about settlement amount is input through a key pad on

the credit card check reader. Then the credit card check reader 15

requests approval of the settlement to a Value Added Network (VAN)

through a network 40 such as the PSTN in real time. Since the VAN which received approval request of the settlement

is connected to the network 40 such as a dedicated line to a credit card

company, the VAN transmits the approval request of the settlement to

the credit card company, then receives approval of the settlement from

the credit card company for the request and notifies the credit card

check reader 15 of an approval result. A credit information bank may be

used instead of the credit card company.

For the approval request of the settlement, the credit card

company checks that the credit card by which the settlement is

requested is an unpaid settlement card or lost/stolen card, and the

settlement amount is within a given limit. When it decides that the card is

normally used, the company processes for the corresponding amount of

the settlement and then approves the settlement.

As such, when the relevant settlement is approved by the card

company and then the approval is transmitted to the credit card check

reader 15, the credit card check reader 15 discharges a receipt and

thereby processing of the corresponding settlement ends. At the time to

end the settlement processing, the credit card check reader 15 transmits the sales information to the system 30 of the accounting/taxation office.

In this case, the transmitted sales information contains the date

of selling, sales amount and enterpriser identification information,

wherein the enterpriser identification information may be any information

to allow the enterpriser to be identified such as a proper number of the

credit card check reader, a member shop number depending on

settlement by a credit card and other proper enterpriser identification

number. For the purpose, the sales information transmission means 15a

of the credit card check reader 15 obtains the enterpriser identification

information.

Fig.6 is a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

accounting/taxation office accesses to the service server to process

accounting entry affairs for an enterpriser according to the invention,

using an accounting entry program provided.

The accounting/taxation office processes accounting entry affairs

for an enterpriser, using the accounting entry program provided by the

ASP through the service server 20. For this, the accounting/taxation

office accesses to the on-line service server (i.e., service site) 20, using a computer 100 provided with a data communication means such as a

web browser (S200).

First, the connected accounting/taxation office registers itself as a

member, using the accounting entry program provided by the ASP, and

ends member registration by registering required information such as its

ID (identifier) and password, etc.

On the other hand, since the accounting/taxation office ended

member registration in advance, the information could be provided to the

enterpriser as described before. According to the invention, the service

server 20 is cooperative with the accounting/taxation office. The service

server 20 constructs a plurality of accounting/taxation offices for each

service field, specialized business category, and target areas to support

an enterpriser in selecting a desired accounting/taxation office.

Then, the accounting/taxation office executes login using its ID,

password and the like (S202), checks web pages showing service menus,

and requests execution of the accounting entry program by selecting, for

example, "Execute the accounting entry program" (S204).

For the aforementioned request, the service server 20 executes the accounting entry program (S206), and the accounting/taxation office

processes the accounting entry affairs, using the accounting entry

program executed on the web (S208).

In this case, the accounting/taxation office processes the

accounting entry affairs for a relevant enterpriser, using the acquired

enterpriser's sales information, and accordingly it is preferable that the

sales information acquisition means 30a and the enterpriser's sales

information database 30b in the system of the accounting/taxation office

are produced to be easily used on the accounting entry program.

Herein, the accounting entry program is mentioned, but since an

accounting/taxation office provide many services other than accounting

entry and thus there are many programs for processing the services, all

of accounting and taxation related programs other than the accounting

entry program may be used as such.

Then, the accounting/taxation office ends processing of

accounting entry for a relevant enterpriser and then stores the result on

the accounting entry program (S210). The service server 20 stores the

processing result (S212). As described before, the accounting entry result processed by the

accounting/taxation office will be checked or output by the relevant

enterpriser through the service server 20.

Then, Fig.7 shows a flow chart to illustrate a process in which an

enterpriser accesses to the service server to confirm the accounting

entry result processed by the accounting/taxation office.

The enterpriser accesses to the on-line service server (i.e.,

service site) 20, using a computer 10 provided with a data communication

means such as a web browser, to confirm the processed accounting entry

result(S300).

The enterpriser executes login (S302). For the login, the service

server 20 transmits web pages showing service menus. Then the

enterpriser checks the menu, selects the "Confirm the accounting entry

result" among the service menus to request provision of the accounting

entry results for himself processed by the accounting/taxation office to

the service server 20 (S304).

For the request, the service server 20 extracts the accounting

entry results processed by the accounting/taxation office for the enterpriser's request and then provides the results on web pages (S306).

According to the invention, the service server 20 can provide the

accounting entry results in a given report, graph or chart format.

Then, the enterpriser can confirm or output the provided

accounting entry results (S308).

As previously described, the service server 20 directly provides

the accounting entry results. It should be noted, however, that the

accounting entry program is first executed and then the results are

provided on the accounting entry program.

Thereby, the process ends in which an enterpriser accesses to

the service server 20 to confirm and output the accounting entry results

processed by the accounting/taxation office.

To be brief for the aforementioned description, an enterpriser is

connected to a specified accounting/taxation office and then the sales

information by credit cards of the enterpriser is transmitted to the

accounting/taxation office in real time. The accounting/taxation office

executes accounting entry affairs for the enterpriser, using an accounting

entry program provided on the web, and then the enterpriser can confirm the entry results on the web.

On the other hand, the accounting/taxation office can be provided

with sales/purchase information and other evidence documents required

for accounting entry from the enterpriser by off-line.

As described above, although the invention is described by means

of limited embodiments and drawings, the invention is not limited to them.

Various modifications and variants can be made within the technical spirit

and the equivalent scope of the claims which will be described in the

following by those skilled in the art of the invention.

Industrial Applicability

According to a method for providing an on-line accounting entry

service of the invention, accounting entry affairs can be efficiently

processed between an enterpriser and an accounting/taxation office

through data communication.

In this case, the sales information by credit cards among the

information required for accounting entry affairs is transferred to the

accounting/taxation office, so that accuracy and convenience can be enhanced as compared to the conventional provision by a human.

The enterpriser searches on-line information about a plurality of

accounting/taxation offices to select a most appropriate

accounting/taxation office, and will be able to confirm the accounting

entry result for himself on the web.

On the other hand the accounting/taxation offices can process

accounting entry affairs for each enterpriser, using an accounting entry

program provided by an ASP at low prices.

Furthermore, a service server serving to connect the enterpriser

and the accounting/taxation office can promote ASP business for

accounting related programs.

Claims

[Claims]

[1] A method for providing an on-line accounting entry service,

comprising the steps of:

a step in which an enterpriser selects an accounting/taxation

office through an on-line service server and acquiring location

information of a system of the accounting/taxation office;

a step in which sales information containing a selling date, sales

amount and enterpriser identification information is transmitted at the

time of selling from a credit card check reader of the enterpriser to the

accounting/taxation office;

a step in which the accounting/taxation office acquires the

transmitted sales information;

a step in which the accounting/taxation office processes

accounting entry affairs for the enterpriser on the web, using an

accounting entry program provided from the service server;

a step in which the service server stores and manages the

processed accounting entry results; and a step in which the enterpriser confirms or outputs the

accounting entry results on the web through the service server.

[2] The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the

step in which the enterpriser registers the acquired system location

information of the accounting/taxation office to the credit card check

reader.

[3] The method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the service

server notifies the selected accounting/taxation office of the selection

thereof and required enterpriser's information by sending e-mail.