Accounting Information Systems‚ 12e (Romney/Steinbart) Chapter 2 Overview of Transaction Processing and ERP Systems 1) What usually initiates data input into a system? A) The transaction system automatically checks each hour to see if any new data is available for input and processing. B) The performance of some business activity generally serves as the trigger for data input. C) A general ledger program is queried to produce a trial balance at the end of an accounting period. D) Data is only
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C H A P T E R O N E INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Accounting as a profession or discipline‚ has always been seen as an information-generating one‚ which fittingly makes the job of the Accountant to be that of observing economic activities‚ recording the observations in the prescribed books‚ analysing the recordings‚ interpreting his analysis and preparing reports to all users of Accounting Information. The prepared reports are generally referred to as financial statements‚ which clearly
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Amazon: From Book Seller to Service Provider 1. Amazon’s strategy is to maintain its role as an online retailer while diversifying its product and service line.[1] While many people still see Amazon only as an online book retailer‚ this is no longer true. Amazon is now best described as a technology retailer. Capitalizing on its large and reliable Internet infrastructure‚ Amazon Web Services now include the following: Simple Storage Service (S3)‚ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)‚ SimpleDB‚ CloudFront
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Discussion Questions 1. Discuss some of the challenges facing business today. Does information technology play a role in these challenges? Explain. The business world and society in general are undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent change. The “new economy” driven by the Internet has seen the rise of entirely new businesses like Amazon.com‚ Yahoo‚ eBay‚ and of course Google. While the “dot com bust” of 2000 saw the demise of thousands of Internet-oriented businesses‚ the fact remains that
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Financial Reports is providing useful and valuable accounting information‚ which is an important basis to making appropriate decisions for information users. The quality of accounting information is directly related to information users in decision-making and its consequences. Hence‚ the four qualitative characteristics‚ namely Understandability‚ Relevance‚ Reliability and Comparability are set out in the conceptual framework to ensure that information users can make the right decisions. This essay will
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CHAPTER 1 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: INFORMATION FOR CREATING VALUE AND MANAGING RESOURCES ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1.1 There are several possible answers to the question. QANTAS‚ the national airline of Australia‚ has faced a number of changes to the business environment in recent years‚ including deregulation of the domestic aviation industry. This resulted in increased competition as new firms attempted to enter the industry. The most notable of these was two failed attempts by Compass to succeed
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The Feasibility of Environmental Accounting Information System (EAIS) in Ethiopia Tibebe Sirak Tel: +251-911-372231‚ +251-111-224167 Email: tibebesirak@ymail.com; tibebe@rocketmail.com P.O. Box 28628 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia Abstract Environmental issues become the major concern of the world. Studies show that manufacturing firms are major pollutant of the environment in developing nations. Like in most African countries environmental situation in Ethiopia is insecure‚ given the low levels
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this essay is to determine the vulnerability of computerised accounting information system to computer crime and the solutions to prevent such crime from occurring in organisations. Ever-Changing information technology has made computerised accounting processes easier. However‚ it has also created significant threats in relation to ensuring the security and reliability of computerised accounting information systems. Using an accounting software package such as MYOB can be vulnerable to frauds if
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Accounting Information Systems Test Bank 10th Edition Chapter 1 (new version) MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A set of two or more interrelated components that interact to achieve a goal is: a) A system b) An accounting information system c) Data d) Mandatory information 2. This results when a subsystem achieves its goals while contributing to the organization’s overall goal. a) Goal conflict b) Goal congruence c) Value of information d) Systems congruence 3. Goal conflict may result when a) A decision
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Part 1- Conceptual Framework Cost Accounting Cost accounting‚ as a tool of management‚ provides management with detailed records of the costs relating to products‚ operations or functions. Cost accounting refers to the process of determining and accumulating the cost of some particular product or activity. It also covers classification‚ analysis and interpretation of costs. The cost so determined and accumulated may be the estimated future costs for planning purposes‚ or actual (historical) costs
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