Accounting, Information Technology and Business Solutions
Published on 1. August 1995
Book
Hardback
650 pages
978-0-07-114353-0 (ISBN)
Description
This aims to be the foundation text for encouraging students to begin thinking innovatively about accounting, user support, information technology and solving business problems. It integrates both traditional and more recent knowledge in the hope that students will master challenges while learning how to lead change in the future. Understanding the activities, processes, and information needs of organization stakeholders is the focus of this book. Information technology is presented as an enabler of organizational activities and objectives. The text is organized into a series of moduals and nine core chapters lay the foundations.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1120 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-114353-0 (9780071143530)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
An introduction to accounting, information technology, and business solutions; the evolution of accounting information systems architecture; understanding the organizational process that accounting supports; prototyping an event driven IT application; controlling business and information process risk; an overview of the sales/collection business process; an overview of the acqusition/maintenance/payment business process; an overview of additional business process cycles; business solutions, change and the solution professional - challenges and opportunities. Appendices: documention tools - flowcharting and data flow diagrams; an overview of the general ledger architecture; data and data base management systems (DBMS); sample electronic data processing (EDP) controls; the changing nature of journals and ledgers; the effect of information technology on organizations; computer software.