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Accounting Information Systems and EBiz Guide to Accounting Package, 8/E
Marshall B. Romney, Brigham Young University
Paul John Steinbart, Arizona State University

ISBN-10: 0130556084
ISBN-13: 9780130556080

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2001
Format: Cloth Package; 864 pp
Published: 07/05/2000
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For use in one-semester courses in AIS at the undergraduate or graduate level as well as advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in Management Information Systems (MIS).

Accounting Information Systems provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to pursue successful careers in accounting. The text reflects how information technology (IT) is altering the very nature of accounting, discussing how developments such as the Internet, electronic commerce, EDI, databases, and artificial intelligence are fundamentally transforming the way organizations conduct their business activities. The authors also explore ways in which accountants can improve the design and function of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) so that they truly add value to the organization.

NEW—Companion Website www.prenhall.com/romney
NEW—Streamlined presentation—Condenses coverage into nineteen clear, tightly focused chapters.

Offers students a text that's concise and accessible, allowing them to concentrate on the essentials without distraction or intimidation.

NEW—Online cases—Transfers five comprehensive cases from the text to the fully dedicated website.

Extends understanding beyond the classroom and past the printed page, engaging students in relevant assignments using today's hottest medium.

NEW—Earlier applications—Responds to reviewer comments by moving application chapters ahead in the text.
NEW—Increased coverage of business strategy—Introduces basic strategies and strategic positions in Chapter 1.

Starts students thinking—from the outset—about how information technology can be used to help organizations achieve their goals.

NEW—Improved discussions, examples, and assignments on databases and database modeling.

Reflects the ever-increasing role that today's accountants are playing in database design.

NEW—Enhanced coverage of e-commerce—Explores FEDI and control issues as well as IT support of e-commerce.
NEW—Updated coverage of computer fraud and security—Reflects the latest tools and techniques, presenting a wealth of examples.

Trains students to recognize the crimes and perpetrators they may face in the business world.

NEW—Improved presentation of the systems development process—Reorganizes coverage to provide a more logical flow of information.
Focus on transaction cycles.

Develops a valuable, usable business-process perspective throughout the text.

Integrative chapter-opening cases—Introduces each chapter's key concepts and topics.

Lets students connect the concepts under discussion to actual scenarios presented in each chapter's opening, narrative, summary, and conclusion.

End-of-chapter cases.

Provides students with the opportunity to apply newly acquired knowledge to specific scenarios faced actual businesses.

Focus boxes in each chapter—Summarizes articles describing how specific companies are using the latest IT developments to improve their AIS.

Gives students a rare glimpse at cutting-edge tools and techniques at work in today's businesses.

Hundreds of diagrams, figures, flowcharts, and tables—Illustrates the concepts discussed within each chapter.

Provides the visual support that today's learners need to fully grasp what are often abstract concepts and principles.

Whatever approach you use in teaching this course, you can use our book.

The book supports a variety of teaching approaches, including: controls (Chs. 8-10), cycles (Chs. 12-16), and design (Chs. 17-19).

I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

1. Accounting Information Systems: An Overview.
2. Elements and Procedures of General Ledger-Based Accounting Information Systems.
3. Systems Development and Documentation Techniques.
4. Introduction to Data Processing.
5. Databases.
6. Data Modeling and Database Design.
7. Electronic Commerce.

II. CONTROL AND AUDIT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

8. Control and Accounting Information Systems.
9. Computer-Based Information Systems Control.
10. Computer Fraud and Security.
11. Auditing of Computer-Based Information Systems.

III. ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS.

12. The Revenue Cycle: Sales and Cash Collections.
13. The Expenditure Cycle: Purchasing and Cash Disbursements.
14. The Production Cycle.
15. The Human Resources Management/Payroll Cycle.
16. General Ledger and Reporting System.

IV. THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.

17. Introduction to Systems Development and Systems Analysis.
18. AIS Development Strategies.
19. Systems Design, Implementation, and Operation.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

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This package contains:
• Romney & Steinbert, eBiz: The Prentice Hall Guide to E-Business and E-Commerce in Accounting (2001)

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