The Contribution of Accountancy Intelligence to the Development of the Economic Intelligence

Organizations of all sizes and kinds are challenged by the needs of information management. Given the increasing competition in the current business environment, organizations are paying more attention to the knowledge as a key element in obtaining competitive advantages.One way for the organizations to create a knowledge management is, according to the experts, through the economic intelligence. The economic intelligence representing a way to manage and control the information, may be applied to all economic sectors and not only, since we may talk of cultural, social, legal, accounting and financial intelligence. The economic intelligence mainly addresses users that want up to date information to make the best decisions in a framework of a defined strategy. It is also of interest to policy makers who create the context for other’s strategies or, more generally, to suport creativity processes.