Exam 13: Developing and Implementing Effective Accounting Information Systems

As part of the systems follow?up work,an implementation team can watch employees perform their work activities to ascertain whether the employees are executing their assigned job functions correctly.

Which of these best describes prototyping as used in practice?

All of these are advantages of prototyping except that:

One thing that can go wrong during systems implementation is implementing a system that has not been completely tested.

All of these are examples of typical costs that a company will usually incur when switching to a new computer system except the costs of:

According to the chapter,which of these comes closest in meaning to the term "systems approach?"

When comparing computer vendor proposals,the reputations of these vendors should also be evaluated.

Employee behavioral problems are rarely important in systems analysis and design work because most systems are computer-based,not human-based.

One way to help ensure a systems study uses a "broad point of view" is to assemble an interdisciplinary study team.

A PERT network diagram reflects the logical sequence of systems implementation activities.

Accountants do not have to worry much about systems studies-they are rarely affected by them.

Studies of AIS outputs should not be concerned with non-monetary figures-these are mostly irrelevant to accountants.

In designing an AIS,system developers should design the outputs of the system first,not the inputs.

The systems goals of a company's operating management include:

After successfully implementing a new system,what activities should the implementation team normally perform in their follow-up work?

Which of these is not a general systems goal?

Which of these statements is true?

In this chart,the letters represent:

This diagram is an example of a:

Which of these is not a common dimension in a feasibility study?