Accounting Information System
UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN
FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013
BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING (HONS)
UKAI 2063 ACOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS II
TUTORIAL 6
Case 1: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Situation: The university is considering a new system that will speed up the registration process. As part of the systems development team, you are asked to develop a plan for fact-finding.
(Adapted from Shelley & Cashman 2010, Chp 04 Apply Your Knowledge,Elmwood College, p181)
Required:
1. List all the possible techniques that you might use.
2. Describe an advantage for each technique.
Adv of Interview
• get opinion from the users
• Able to view/observe non verbal language by the users. It wil be important source of info.
Adv of document review (refer all the filing and documents)
• easier to explain the system
• dividing up different subsystems in the software helps for error checking
• if in report u wil know what is the info in purchase order.
Adv of questionnaier
• gather volume info easily
• compute the data to do analysis
Sampling
• save time and cost (take sampling from the actual document –reports or transaction or resits)
Research
• able to get support from technical how they actually solve the problem
• able to get latest news from the IT industry
3. Suppose the development budget is tight. How might that affect the fact-finding process?
• Mayb hav to go to document review, observation, questionaire
• Most expensive techniques have to evaluate by looking at the user site. It will be interview where users have to use time to entertain you
• Facing a tight budget, the college would not want to use JAD techniques, which can be quite expensive. Interviews also are expensive, because the interviewer must spend considerable time preparing, conducting, and documenting the interview. A questionnaire or survey of students, advisors, and registration staff might be an efficient,
FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013
BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING (HONS)
UKAI 2063 ACOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS II
TUTORIAL 6
Case 1: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Situation: The university is considering a new system that will speed up the registration process. As part of the systems development team, you are asked to develop a plan for fact-finding.
(Adapted from Shelley & Cashman 2010, Chp 04 Apply Your Knowledge,Elmwood College, p181)
Required:
1. List all the possible techniques that you might use.
2. Describe an advantage for each technique.
Adv of Interview
• get opinion from the users
• Able to view/observe non verbal language by the users. It wil be important source of info.
Adv of document review (refer all the filing and documents)
• easier to explain the system
• dividing up different subsystems in the software helps for error checking
• if in report u wil know what is the info in purchase order.
Adv of questionnaier
• gather volume info easily
• compute the data to do analysis
Sampling
• save time and cost (take sampling from the actual document –reports or transaction or resits)
Research
• able to get support from technical how they actually solve the problem
• able to get latest news from the IT industry
3. Suppose the development budget is tight. How might that affect the fact-finding process?
• Mayb hav to go to document review, observation, questionaire
• Most expensive techniques have to evaluate by looking at the user site. It will be interview where users have to use time to entertain you
• Facing a tight budget, the college would not want to use JAD techniques, which can be quite expensive. Interviews also are expensive, because the interviewer must spend considerable time preparing, conducting, and documenting the interview. A questionnaire or survey of students, advisors, and registration staff might be an efficient,