Accounting Information Systems

1. The Information System: An Accountant's Perspective. 2. Introduction to Transaction Processing. Appendix A. Section 1. Introduction to Computer Hardware and Software. Section 2. General Logic for Sequential File Update. Section 3. General Logic for Direct File Update. 3. Ethics, Fraud and Internal Control. 4. The Revenue Cycle. 5. The Expenditure Cycle. 6. The Conversion Cycle. 7. The General Ledger, Financial Reporting and Fixed Asset Systems. 8. The Management Reporting System. 9. Date Base Management Systems. Section 1. Commerical Navigational DBMS. Section 2. Commercial Relational Data Base Systems. Section 3. The Data Normalization Process. 10. Distributed Data Processing and Networking. Appendix B. Section 1. Modulation Techniques. Section 2. Digital Systems. Section 3. Multiplexing Techniques. Section 4. OSI Protocol Module. 11. Advanced Information Stystems Techniques. 12. The Systems Development Process. Part I. Introduction to the Systems Development Process. 13. The Systems development Process. Part II. Conceptual Design and Sytsem Selection. 14. The Systems Development Process. Part III. Detailed Design and System Implementation. Appendix C. Section 1. Output Reporting Alternative. Section 2. Pseudocoding The System Modules. 15. Controlling Computer-Based Information Systems. Part I. 16. Controlling computer-Based Information Systems. Part II. 17. Auditing Computer-Based Information Systems. Appendix D. Case Studies.