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Teach your course your way with this flexible learning aid.
Accounting Information Systems, 15th edition, is a comprehensive textbook perfect for one-semester undergraduate and postgraduate courses in AIS. This new edition allows you to reorder chapters and focus on the material that suits your course needs, delivering the most unprecedented coverage of the major approaches to teaching AIS. With the most recent updates in AIS included in this edition, your students will learn not only how AIS has changed the role of the accountant but also how it can add value to organisations.
Prepare your students for a successful accounting career in public practice, industry or government with this text.
Updated coverage of AIS keeps the text current and relevant
· NEW - A section on Data Analytics (Part II) updates discussion of relational databases not only as the basis for transaction processing systems, but also as one of the sources for Big Data and Analytics. It also discusses the Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) process and various data analytic techniques.
· UPDATED - Discussion of encryption includes blockchain technology.
· UPDATED - Commentary on privacy includes the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).
· UPDATED - Coverage of auditing has been moved to a web-only appendix as most of this material is covered in other courses.
Student-focused features facilitate learning
· Chapter-opening cases introduce important material and reinforce key concepts. Each case is referenced throughout the chapter and a summary presents solutions to the issues raised in the case.
· UPDATED - Focus Boxes and real-world examples help students understand how companies are using the latest IT developments to improve their AIS.
· UPDATED - Hands-On Excel exercises, many based on “how-to” tutorials that have appeared in recent issues of the Journal of Accountancy, help readers hone their computer skills.
· Problems, pulled from current periodicals and CPA, CMA, CIA, and SMAC exams, provide additional opportunities for students to master key concepts and practice answering exam-style questions.
· End-of-chapter quizzes let students self-assess their understanding of the material. Detailed correct answers and explanations are provided.
· Extensive use of graphics enhances students’ understanding of the concepts through hundreds of figures, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables.
· Key terms and their definitions are repeated in the glossary margins in each chapter, and in the glossary at the end of the text -- making it easy for students to look up various technical terms used throughout the text.
· Extensive online support is available at Pearson’s content-rich, text-supported companion website: pearsonglobaleditions.com
A flexible organization lets instructors tailor the material to fit how they teach their course
Instructors can create a customized version of the text by:
· Easily reordering chapters to focus on the material most appropriate to individual courses.
· Adding their own material or third-party content that they wish to cover in class.
Choosing an alternate version of the REA material presented in Chapters 19-21 that uses the Batini style notation instead of the crow’s feet notation featured in this text.
Updated coverage of AIS keeps the text current and relevant
· A section on Data Analytics (Part II) updates discussion of relational databases not only as the basis for transaction processing systems, but also as one of the sources for Big Data and Analytics. It also discusses the Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) process and various data analytic techniques.
· Discussion of encryption includes blockchain technology.
· Commentary on privacy includes the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).
· Coverage of auditing has been moved to a web-only appendix as most of this material is covered in other courses.
Student-focused features facilitate learning
· Focus Boxes and real-world examples help students understand how companies are using the latest IT developments to improve their AIS.
· Hands-On Excel exercises, many based on “how-to” tutorials that have appeared in recent issues of the Journal of Accountancy, help readers hone their computer skills.
Table of contents
PART I: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
1. Accounting Information Systems: An Overview
2. Overview of Transaction Processing and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
3. Systems Documentation Techniques
PART II: DATA ANALYTICS
4. Relational Databases
5. Introduction to Data Analytics in Accounting
6. Transforming Data
7. Data Analysis and Presentation
PART III: CONTROL OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
8. Fraud and Errors
9. Computer Fraud and Abuse Techniques
10. Control and Accounting Information Systems
11. Controls for Information Security
12. Confidentiality and Privacy Controls
13. Processing Integrity and Availability Controls
PART IV: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
14. The Revenue Cycle: Sales to Cash Collections
15. The Expenditure Cycle: Purchasing to Cash Disbursements
16. The Production Cycle
17. The Human Resources Management and Payroll Cycle
18. General Ledger and Reporting System
PART V: THE REA DATA MODEL
19. Database Design Using the REA Data Model
20. Implementing an REA Model in a Relational Database
21. Special Topics in REA Modeling
PART VI: THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
22. Introduction to Systems Development and Systems Analysis
23. AIS Development Strategies
24. Systems Design, Implementation, and Operation
Author bios
Marshall B. Romney is Professor Emeritus at Brigham Young University.
Paul J. Steinbart is Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University.
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