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Chapter 1
Accounting Information Systems: An Overview
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Learning Objectives
Distinguish between data and information.
Discuss the characteristics of useful information.
Explain how to determine the value of information.
Explain the decisions an organization makes and the information needed to make them.
Identify the information that passes between internal and external parties and an AIS. Describe the major business processes present in most companies.Explain what an accounting information system (AIS) is and describe its basic functions.Discuss how an AIS can add value to an organization. Explain how an AIS and corporate strategy affect each other. Explain the role an AIS plays in a company’s value chain.
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What Is a System?
System
A set of two or more interrelated components interacting to achieve a goalGoal Conflict
Occurs when components act in their own interest without regard for overall goal
Goal Congruence
Occurs when components acting in their own interest contribute toward overall goal
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Data vs. Information
Data are facts that are recorded and stored.
Insufficient for decision making.Information
is processed data used in decision making.
Too much information however, will make it more, not less, difficult to make decisions. This is known as
Information Overload.
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Value of Information
Benefits
Reduce UncertaintyImprove DecisionsImprove PlanningImprove Scheduling
Costs
Time & Resources
Produce InformationDistribute Information1-5
Benefit $’
s
> Cost $’
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What Makes Information Useful?
Necessary characteristics:Relevant
“The capacity of information to make a difference in a decision by helping users to form predictions about the outcomes of past, present, and future events or to confirm or correct prior expectations.”
Reliable
“The quality of information that assures that information is reasonably free from error and bias and faithfully represents what it purports to represent.”
Complete“The inclusion in reported information of everything material that is necessary for faithful representation of the relevant phenomena.”
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What Makes Information Useful?
Timely“Having information available to a decision maker before it loses its capacity to influence decisions.”
Understandable“The quality of information that enables users to perceive its significance.”
Verifiable
“The ability through consensus among measurers to ensure that information represents what it purports to represent or that the chosen method of measurement has been used without error or bias.”
AccessibleAvailable when needed (see Timely) and in a useful format (see Understandable).
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Business Process
Systems working toward organizational goals
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Business Process Cycles
RevenueExpenditureProductionHuman Resources
Financing
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Business Transactions
Give–Get exchangesBetween two entitiesMeasured in economic terms
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Business Cycle Give–Get
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Accounting Information Systems
Collect, process, store, and report data and informationIf Accounting = language of businessAIS = information providing vehicle
Accounting = AIS
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Components of an AIS
People using the systemProcedures and InstructionsFor collecting, processing, and storing dataData
SoftwareInformation Technology (IT) InfrastructureComputers, peripherals, networks, and so onInternal Control and Security
Safeguard the system and its data
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AIS and Business Functions
Collect and store data about organizational:Activities, resources, and personnelTransform data into information enabling
Management to:Plan, execute, control, and evaluateActivities, resources, and personnelProvide adequate control to safeguard
Assets and data
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AIS Value Add
Improve Quality and Reduce CostsImprove EfficiencyImprove Sharing KnowledgeImprove Supply Chain
Improve Internal ControlImprove Decision Making
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Improve Decision Making
Identify situations that require action.Provide alternative choices.Reduce uncertainty.Provide feedback on previous decisions.
Provide accurate and timely information.
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Value Chain
The set of activities a product or service moves along before as output it is sold to a customerAt each activity the product or service gains value
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Value Chain—Primary Activities
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Value Chain—Support Activities
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Value Chain
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AIS and Corporate Strategy
Organizations have limited resources, thus investments to AIS should have greatest impact on ROI.
Organizations need to understand:
IT developments
Business strategy
Organizational cultureWill effect and be effected by new AIS
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