Abstract Accounting has evolved consistently over the past decades, with each new addition and innovation making it even better and challenging while providing satisfaction and convenience to the users. This paper seeks to look at the overview of cloud accounting, make a comparative study of the services of five major cloud accounting services in the world among others. Expost facto research design was used in gathering primary and secondary data; The study recommends that organisations should adopt cloud accounting as it will make accounting easily accessible, less expensive and time saving.
Keywords: Cloud accounting, cloud software, accounting system