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In the last three decades, the tributary legislation and the accounting procedures suffereds ignificant changes. Accountant's profession is considered very difficult and complex, especially for the constants controls that are implemented and imposed by the government to the companies and consequently to the accountants. In consequence of that, the accounting class, and especially the Offices of Accounting, not rarely, they are suffocated by the periods - every time smaller - of accounts rendered to the tax collections, not remaining time to think about technological innovation. It urges, therefore, the need that the accountant is attentive to the technological innovations, because, otherwise, it can commit its activities that are worked and to become disposable in the competitive scenery in which is inserted. To prove these statements is that this research was conducted, which sought to assess whether the accounting firm of the city of Porecatu PR are updating and using the tools of information technology. The survey was conducted in order to compare the firms surveyed in 2006 had some kind of update their equipment and software used in performing the daily accounting activities.

Technological updating; Accounting Information; Competitiveness; technological management