Question 1

What are the support activities of an accounting information system?

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Question 2

Which of the following is not a subsystem in the revenue process?

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A)  Shipping 
B)  Receiving 
C)  Customer invoicing 
D)  Cash receipts

Question 3

Which of the following is a decision support activity?

Accepted Answer

A)  The sales subsystem 
B)  The accounts receivable subsystem 
C)  The sales analysis subsystem 
D)  The shipping subsystem

Question 4

Which of the following subsystems are in the inventory process?

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A)  Production control, inventory management, cost accounting 
B)  Inventory management, cost accounting, accounts payable 
C)  Inventory management, cost accounting, accounts receivable 
D)  Production control, receiving, inventory management

Question 5

What are the two major types of reports that are produced by an accounting information system?

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Question 6

A cash sale is recorded in only the cash receipts transaction file.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following activities involve an interface between users and the accounting system?

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A)  Input and process 
B)  Process and store 
C)  Input and output 
D)  Output and process

Question 8

Name the subsystems of the inventory process in a manufacturing organization.

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Question 9

Which of the following statements about information processing activities is not correct?

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A)  Capturing transaction data in machine-readable form reduces error input data. 
B)  File maintenance is a nonroutine process in which changes are made to a master file through direct intervention by a user. 
C)  Typical master file maintenance changes are updating account balances, deleting unwanted records, and adding new records to a file. 
D)  The basic types of processing are classification, comparison, summarization and calculation.

Question 10

Status reports focus on the balances recorded in the transaction files after updating has been completed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The business processes comprise the most specific level of subsystems in an accounting information system.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which subsystem is responsible for accounting for the raw materials, finished goods, and merchandise inventories?

Accepted Answer

A)  Production control 
B)  Sales order processing 
C)  Inventory management 
D)  Purchase order processing

Exam 4: Data Flows, Activities, and Structure of Accounting Systems

What are the support activities of an accounting information system?

Which of the following is not a subsystem in the revenue process?

Which of the following is a decision support activity?

Which of the following subsystems are in the inventory process?

What are the two major types of reports that are produced by an accounting information system?

A cash sale is recorded in only the cash receipts transaction file.

Which of the following activities involve an interface between users and the accounting system?

Name the subsystems of the inventory process in a manufacturing organization.

Which of the following statements about information processing activities is not correct?

Status reports focus on the balances recorded in the transaction files after updating has been completed.

The business processes comprise the most specific level of subsystems in an accounting information system.

Which subsystem is responsible for accounting for the raw materials, finished goods, and merchandise inventories?