Introduction to accounting information systems. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tony Boczko.
• Other Names: Boczko, Tony
• Contents: Cover -- Introduction to Accounting Information Systems -- Contents in brief -- Contents in detail -- List of articles -- List of figures and tables -- Guided tour -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: A Contextual Framework -- Information systems in accounting and finance -- an overview -- Introduction -- Learning outcomes -- Business management and the need for information -- Information -- toward a political context -- Accounting information systems -- nature, context and purpose -- contemporary contexts of accounting information systems Accounting information systems -- social and political context -- Accounting information systems -- problems/fallacies -- Accounting information systems -- a contemporary framework -- concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- References -- Systems thinking -- Introduction -- Learning outcomes -- Systems thinking -- Hard system/soft system -- What is a system? -- Understanding the context of systems thinking -- Applying systems thinking -- Systems thinking -- the full picture -- Concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- References -- Control -- management by design -- Introduction Learning outcomes -- Control and a trust in systems -- Regulation, surveillance and control -- Corporate context of control -- Basic elements of the control cycle -- Understanding systemic control -- Control systems -- a reality check -- Problems in control action -- Concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- References -- Part 2: Information Systems in Accounting and Finance -- Accounting information systems and the information age -- Introduction -- Learning outcomes -- A brief history of information and communications technology -- The internet ... the world is out there! E-business -- tomorrow's world ... today! -- Developments and innovations in e-commerce -- Innovations in accounting and finance -- Resource planning and management systems -- Other innovations enabled by new information/ communications technology -- Concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- Reference -- Networking -- creating connections -- Introduction -- Learning outcomes -- Understanding differences -- Soft-type networks -- Hard-type networks -- Semi-soft-type networks -- Cloud computing -- Concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- Notes Information management and data processing -- Introduction -- Data management -- Data -- the need for structure -- Data processing -- Describing data processing systems -- Databases -- Concluding comments -- Self-review questions -- References -- Accounting information systems -- a cyclical perspective -- Introduction -- Learning outcomes -- Contemporary transaction processing -- The funding cycle -- The value chain -- The value cycle -- Contemporary transaction processing -- toward a classification -- Contemporary transaction processing -- categories -- Contemporary transaction processing -- types Contemporary transaction processing -- cycles
• Publisher Details: Harlow, UK : Pearson
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 462 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 657.0285; Accounting -- Data processing; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Accounting; Management information systems; Management Information Systems; Comptabilité -- Informatique; Systèmes d'information -- Comptabilité; Systèmes d'information de gestion; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- Financial; Accounting -- Data processing; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Accounting; Management information systems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780273739579; 0273739573
• Related ISBNs: 9780273739388; 0273739387; 9781280781216; 1280781211
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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