Not Economic Informatics but Informatic Economics — The development of the subject Economic Informatics in the commercial colleges in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany

In the subject Economic Informatics it has been general practice up to now to teach program and data structure in Pascal for solving individual problems of Industrial Economics. The method of teaching has become obsolete. The Ministry of Education requires extensive use of standard software in economics lessons. As a consequence, some experts demand that the subject Economic Informatics be deleted. Other experts are of the opinion that the methods and procedures of Economic Informatics be treated as an independent subject. The contents of this subject are to be increasingly oriented towards the problems of business information economy when employing SQL-database systems and spreadsheet programs.