A shopkeeper adopts a computer-based system for billing. Its main influence comes from which environment?

Correct answer: Technological environment

Direct answer: C, technological environment. A computer-based billing system uses computer hardware, software and digital processing to perform a business activity. The technological environment includes inventions, innovations, automation, computerisation, digital systems and other changes in methods of doing work. Step 1: identify the new tool, a computer system. Step 2: identify its use, preparing bills. Step 3: connect computerisation with technology. Therefore, option C is correct. Option A is wrong because the fiscal environment concerns government revenue, taxation, public spending and budget matters, not ordinary computer billing. Option B is wrong because the social environment concerns values, customs, lifestyles and public attitudes; those are not the main change described here. Option C correctly names the environment affected by computerisation. Option D is wrong because the political environment concerns government, political stability and policy, not the adoption of billing software. Memory cue: computers, automation, internet and digital tools usually indicate the technological environment.