Exam 4: Accounting Systems and Business Processes

What are the advantages of configuring or customizing a baseline accounting system?

When a new accounting system is developed, organizations rarely streamline business processes to improve effectiveness.

A process is represented on a DFD by

An event typically associated with the banking module of a baseline accounting system is

Since most accounting systems use databases to store accounting data, the account balances are calculated using various database tables.

An event will typically have output data and input data.

A friend is taking this AIS course and is having trouble understanding the difference between the various levels of data flow diagrams. How do you explain to your friend the difference between a level-0, level-1, and level-2 DFD?

What are the transactions typically associated with vendors? Please define each transaction.

The first step in creating a data flow diagram is

How are data flow diagram fragments connected or combined?

Data flow diagrams are pictorial descriptions of business processes.

What are the guidelines for a well-designed DFD?

Books Ga'Lore! Invoice Process When Books Ga'Lore completes the shipping process, they begin the invoice process. After receiving shipping confirmation from the warehouse (from the shipping process), the customer's order and inventory levels are updated. An invoice is generated with the updated information and emailed to the customer. Books Ga'Lore! database tables: Item, Customer, Sales Order, Sales Order Line, Vendor, Purchase Order, Purchase Order Line, Employees, Employee Type, Time, Cash Receipts, Cash Account, and General Ledger -Create an Event-Agent-Datastore table based on the Books Ga'Lore! customer order process data flow diagram.

Books Ga'Lore! Shipping Process Narrative When Books Ga'Lore! processes the customer order it begins the shipping process. After receiving shipping information (from the customer order process), item information, and sales information, the packing slip is generated. After receiving customer information and updated shipping information, the shipping labels are generated. The packing slip and shipping labels are sent to the warehouse. Books Ga'Lore! database tables: Item, Customer, Sales Order, Sales Order Line, Vendor, Purchase Order, Purchase Order Line, Employees, Employee Type, Time, Cash Receipts, Cash Account, and General Ledger -Create a level-1 data flow diagram for the Books Ga'Lore! Shipping Process Narrative.

Books Ga'Lore! Credit Sales Narrative Books Ga'Lore! sells books. When a customer makes a credit card purchase at their retail outlet, an employee totals the items. The credit card information is submitted to the credit card company. After receiving credit confirmation, the employee generates a receipt then gives the receipt and items to the customer. Books Ga'Lore! database tables: Item, Customer, Sales Order, Sales Order Line, Vendor, Purchase Order, Purchase Order Line, Employees, Employee Type, Time, Cash Receipts, Cash Account, and General Ledger -Annotate the Books Ga'Lore! Credit Sales narrative.

________ is best suited for object-oriented programming purposes.

What are the four basic types of flowcharts?

Each row in a EAD table represents a data flow.

Data flow diagrams may be used to document the current accounting system.

When expanding a level-0 DFD to a level-1, the database tables remain the same but the agents change.