Core coverage of business processes, transaction cycles, and internal controls. Accounting Information Systems: An Overview; Systems Techniques and... Documentation; eBusiness and eCommerce; Transaction Processing and the Internal Control Process; Information Security; Electronic Data Processing Systems; Revenue Cycle Processes; Procurement and Human Resource Business Process; The Production Business Process; Systems Planning Analysis and Design; Systems Project Management, Implementation, Operation, Control; Data Management Concepts; Auditing Information Technology  For those involved in the planning, set-up, implementation, and monitoring of accounting information systems. 

Core coverage of business processes, transaction cycles, and internal controls. An understanding of business processes is fundamental to contemporary... auditing, and professional and legal considerations relating to an organization’s internal control processes. Following a Business Process Approach, Accounting Information Systems stresses information, communication, and networking technology within the context of business processes, transaction cycles and internal control structure. The eleventh edition offers streamlined information and a new chapter covering fraud.

KEY BENEFIT: Thorough and up-to-date, this book supports any of the most popular approaches to AIS: focus on transaction cycles and controls; focus on... systems life cycle; focus on databases and data modeling; or focus on computer-based controls, fraud and auditing. KEY TOPICS: The book begins with an overview and conceptual foundations then goes on to discuss control and audit of accounting information systems, accounting information systems applications, and the systems development process. MARKET: For CPAs and corporate accountants.

The most comprehensive and flexible coverage of AIS. The market-leading book that delivers the most comprehensive and flexible coverage of the four... major approaches to teaching AIS. Accounting Information Systems also allows instructors to easily reorder chapters and focus the material to suit their course. The twelfth edition covers all recent developments in AIS and how it has changed the roles of an accountant.

The purpose of this text is to help students develop a strong conceptual foundation in accounting information systems (AIS) that can serve as a basis... for lifelong learning. The text's approach has emerged from the authors' extensive experience gained through teaching the AIS course at multiple institutions. This text is a flexible resource that can be adapted to meet the varying needs of different students, faculty, and institutions. Using a business process approach, this text (a) provides a strong conceptual foundation in accounting systems and control, (b) enables students to use this foundation in developing and evaluating accounting applications and in problem solving, and (c) presents information in a way that facilitates student learning. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the relevance of the content to accountants and the roles they play as designer, user and evaluator of information systems. The text provides numerous problem-solving aids to help students develop skills in documenting and analyzing transaction cycles and AIS data, identifying risks and controls, using accounting applications, and designing and evaluating AIS. A set of core cases used throughout the text for illustration and assignments assists integration. A comprehensive case at the end of the text gives students further opportunity to demonstrate understanding. A supplement is available to help students learn how a relational database (MS Access) can be used to implement an AIS.

This textbook is intended to meet the needs of a first course in accounting information systems at either the undergraduate or graduate level. It may... also be used as a review text in second or subsequent courses in this area. A primary objective in writing the seventh edition of the text was to present AIS material that would make students more marketable in today's accounting environment. Recognizing that over 90 percent of accounting systems are licensed rather than internally custom developed and that the current market demand is for accounting graduates who can install, operate, and audit such systems, this text represents a new paradigm. In contrast to traditional accounting systems textbooks that assume an organization will develop its own accounting system and, therefore, emphasize systems development, this textbook gives students the theoretical foundation and skills they will need to conduct a requirements analysis, search for a commercial solution, and successfully implement the software package selected. In addition to learning the essential AIS concepts, you will see much discussion and many examples of commercial accounting systems software as it is designed and as it should be designed. Another objective in writing this edition was to make the material student friendly. Therefore, the authors took great care in directing their words to the students. Recognizing that this is their first introduction to accounting systems, clear definitions of terms were included and numerous examples and illustrations were incorporated to explain the material. The book consists of fifteen chapters. The first fourteen chapters provide the theoretical and practical foundation for the final chapter on selecting and implementing AIS software. The learning experience will be optimized if all fifteen chapters are covered.

Many AIS textbooks do not explain the basic structure of an entire accounting information system. When students finish this textbook, they will really... understand an accounting system. Some books focus more on technology topics than basic accounting system topics. Few accounting graduates will apply for jobs to build databases. Most will be users, auditors, and implementers of accounting systems and need to understand how accounting software works. As a result, this book has a practitioner emphasis, not a systems development emphasis as do many accounting textbooks. Intended to meet the needs of a first course in accounting information systems at either the undergraduate or graduate level, this textbook may also be used as a review text in second or subsequent courses in this area.

Master the technological tools of today's accounting professionIn your grandfather's day, the ledger book was the accountant's bible. Today, technology... is king. From simple programs such as UBS and MYOB to complex enterprise-level systems, accounting systems play a critical function in maintaining accounting data and administering internal controls in any organization. Any aspiring accountant must fully grasp how information systems work, what their capabilities are, and their incorporation into a company's business processes and internal controls.Stressing simplicity and accessibility while avoiding confusing jargon, Accounting Information Systems: The Processes and Control introduces you in simple and clear language to the technology utilized by accountants. Using simple process maps, document flowcharts, and data flow diagrams, this comprehensive yet easily comprehended book defines business processes and explains the foundational concepts of accounting information systems (AIS). It goes on to give you a solid understanding of:* The proper control environment for overseeing and controlling processes* Ethics and fraud prevention, corporate and IT governance, and auditing procedures, including the COSO framework and the Trust Principles* Business processes--from revenue and cash collection to expenditure and administrative--and the internal controls in organizations* The hardware, software, and systems that support the business processesOffering real-world examples, helpful screen captures, exercises, and other features designed to enhance your mastery of the material, this book prepares you for working with the accounting information systems that are so essential to the profession today.