Accounting Information Systems 7th Edition by Cynthia Heagy,Constance Lehmann

Exercise 16

In the Grand Manufacturing Company's AIS, each purchase order record includes the following data fields:

Required:
a. An open purchase order report is needed that will be used by the purchasing agent to monitor outstanding orders and ensure that goods will be received when required. Prepare the layout for such a report, selecting the fields to be included, the arrangement of the fields, and the order of the records in the report.
b. Critique the necessity for maintaining all the fields in part a in the PO module.