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Business Information Systems explores the role of information technology in supporting business operations, decision-making, and strategic objectives. This course provides students with an understanding of how information systems are designed, implemented, and managed within organizations. Topics include the fundamentals of system development, database management, networking, enterprise systems, and the ethical and security issues related to digital information. Through case studies and practical applications, students learn how information systems drive business efficiency, facilitate communication, and offer competitive advantages in a global marketplace.
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Accounting Information Systems 11th Edition by Ulric J. Gelinas
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting Information Systems
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Q1) Operations management requires information that is more accurate and timely than strategic management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The text takes the following view of the relationship between an IS and an AIS:
A) the AIS is part of the IS
B) the IS is part of the AIS
C) the IS and the AIS are one in the same
D) the AIS is the primary system and the IS the subsystem
Answer: C
Q3) The ____ manager may be more concerned with accuracy than with timeliness.
A) strategic
B) tactical
C) operations
D) All of the above.
Answer: A
Q4) A system's __________ ____________ depends on its type - natural, biological, or man-made - and on the particular system.
Answer: central objectives
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Chapter 2: Enterprise Systems
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Q1) With a best-of-breed approach an organization can minimize the number of different software modules employed to implement an enterprise system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Customer relationship management (CRM) software builds and maintains an organization's customer-related database.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Supporting activities of the value chain include activities directly involved with marketing, producing, selling, and delivering the product or service to the customer.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The first step in the order-to-cash process is ______________________________.
Answer: presale activities responding to customer inquiries
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Chapter 3: Electronic Business E-Business Systems
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Q1) A disadvantage of periodic mode systems is
A) online master data are only up to date right after the processing has been completed
B) it is more expensive to operate than immediate mode systems
C) query capability always exists to extract up-to-date data
D) data is updated after every transaction
Answer: A
Q2) Network providers are companies that provide a link into the Internet by making their directly connected networks available for access by fee-paying customers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) There are two categories of electronic document management (EDM) systems:
A) document storage and retrieval and business event data processing
B) document storage and document retrieval
C) periodic storage and immediate retrieval
D) immediate storage and periodic retrieval
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Documenting Information Systems
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Q1) In a physical data flow diagram (DFD), this is something within the system that transforms data.
A) data flow
B) data store
C) external entity
D) internal entity
Q2) Processes that handle other-than-normal situations are called exception routines.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n) ______________________________ is any action being performed by an internal or external entity.
Q4) An information processing activity could be any of the following except:
A) sending or receiving data between entities
B) document preparation
C) data entry
D) data verification
Q5) A(n) ______________________________ depicts a system and all of its activities as a single bubble.
Q6) Bubbles are labelled with verbs in a ____________ data flow diagram.
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Chapter 5: Database Management Systems
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Q1) The applications approach to data management decouples the data from the applications or other users of the data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a database model discussed in Chapter 5:
A) Relational
B) Hierarchical
C) Network
D) Physical
Q3) A spreadsheet is a typical component of a decision support system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Classifying data refers to grouping or categorizing data according to some common attributes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In a hierarchical database model, all record relationships are 3:N.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A(n) ______________________________ depicts the fields comprising a record.
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Chapter 6: Relational Databases and SQL
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Q1) In a relational database, a relation is defined as a collection of data representing multiple occurrences of the following except:
A) a resource
B) an event
C) an activity
D) an agent
Q2) Refer to Exhibit 6-1. Which of the following SQL statements would extract the client number and date for every instance that had a billing rate of $150?
A) QUERY BILLING_HOURS
SELECT Client_No, Date WHERE Rate=150
B) QUERY Client_No, Date FROM BILLING_HOURS WHERE Rate=150
C) SELECT Client_No, Date WHERE Rate=150
D) SELECT Client_No, Date FROM BILLING_HOURS
WHERE Rate=150
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Chapter 7: Controlling Information Systems: Introduction to
Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control
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Q1) A(n) ______________________________ is a series of actions or operations leading to a particular and usually desirable result.
Q2) The section of Sarbanes Oxley that establishes an independent board to oversee public company audits is ______________________________.
Q3) This component of the ERM framework that encompasses the tone of an organization and sets the basis for how risk is viewed and addressed by an entity's people, including risk management philosophy and risk appetite, integrity and ethical values and the environment in which they operate.
A) control activities
B) internal environment
C) risk assessment
D) risk response
Q4) According to the 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey:
A) Internal audit is the most effective fraud detection method.
B) Cybercrime ranks as one of the top four economic crimes worldwide.
C) Accounting fraud has increased significantly over the last two years.
D) All of the above.
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Q5) ______________________________ are events that would have a positive impact on objectives.
Chapter 8: Controlling Information Systems: Introduction to Pervasive Controls
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Q1) The function composed of people, procedures, and equipment and is typically called the information systems department, IS department, or the IT department is the information systems organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Searching through rubbish for system information such as passwords is called:
A) scavenging
B) phishing
C) smoozing
D) shoulder surfing
Q3) A policy that requires employees to alternate jobs periodically is called:
A) segregation of duties
B) forced vacations
C) rotation of duties
D) personnel planning
Q4) According to COBIT, IT resources include applications, information, infrastructure, and people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The most
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Chapter 9: Controlling Information Systems: Business
Process and Application Controls
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Q1) Inputting a range of numbers comprising a batch and then inputting each serially numbered document is characteristic of the control plan called:
A) cumulative sequence check
B) batch sequence check
C) suspense file of missing numbers
D) computer agreement of batch totals
Q2) The edit that compares calculations performed manually with those performed by the computer to determine if a document has been entered correctly is referred to as
Q3) Dollar totals represent a summarization of any numeric data field within the input document or record.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In a control matrix, the coding M-1 means:
A) a major control plan
B) a missing control plan
C) process 1 is missing
D) none of the above
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Q5) In the control matrix the P stands for ______________________________ controls.
Chapter 10: The Order Entrysales Oes Process
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Q1) For companies using enterprise systems, customer relationship management (CRM) systems often share the same underlying ______________________________.
Q2) Preformatted screens in the OE/S process are a control plan that involves the detailed comparison of the individual elements appearing on two source documents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The marketing data is a repository of a variety of sales-oriented data, some of which result from recording sales events and some of which originate from activities that do not culminate in completed sales, such as presales activities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The OE/S process helps support the decision needs of the ______________________________ and ______________________________ functions.
Q5) The flow of information from the OE/S process to marketing managers is an example of ______________________________ information flows.
Q6) In the ER diagram for OE/S, SHIPMENTS generates ______________________________.
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Chapter 11: The Billingaccounts Receivablecash Receipts
Barcr Process
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Q1) Organizations should reconcile their ______________________________ on a regular basis to ensure that valid deposits are recorded correctly.
Q2) The control plan ______________________________ controls the billing and cash receipts functions by asking the customer to review open invoices to determine that they are valid and accurate.
Q3) In the organization structure shown in the text, although both report to the VP of Finance, the ______________________________ and ______________________________ functions should be segregated.
Q4) Quantities of items shipped to a customer would typically be found in the relational table for:
A) CUSTOMERS
B) SALES_RELATIONS
C) BANKS
D) DEPOSITS
Q5) In a(n) ______________________________ accounts receivable system, the customer statement displays invoices (new or settled in the current period), along with payment details.
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Q6) The acronym ACH stands for ______________________________.
Q7) The ______________________________ data store contains invoice records.
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Chapter 12: The Purchasing Process
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Q1) Which of the following is not a potential benefit of supply chain management?
A) lower costs to the customer
B) reduced inventories
C) reduced customer orders
D) reduced product defects
Q2) Which type of supply chain collaboration methods includes collaborative processes across the supply chain using a set of processes and technology models?
A) Continuous Replenishment (CRP) or Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
B) Co-Managed Inventory
C) Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment (CFAR)
D) Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Q3) With ______________________________ a vendor obtains a buyer's current sales, demand, and inventory data in real time and replenishes the buyer's inventory.
Q4) A(n) ______________________________ copy of a document is one in which selected data are blanked out so that persons receiving that copy will not have access to the data.
Q5) The ______________________________ manager usually performs major buying activities as well as the required administrative duties of running a department.
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Chapter 13: The Accounts Payablecash Disbursements
Apcd Process
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Q1) The AP application matches invoices, quantities, prices and terms when it performs the control plan:
A) independent validation of vendor invoices
B) match invoice, purchase order, and receiving report
C) independent authorization to make payment
D) reconcile input and output batch totals
Q2) When processing non-invoiced disbursements, the trigger for either a true voucher process or a non voucher process is a(n) ______________________________.
Q3) A disbursement voucher is designed to reflect formal approval of the voucher for payment and to provide such added data as the account distribution and the amounts to be debited.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The notification of an obligation to pay a vendor for merchandise that was ordered and received is known as a(n) ______________________________.
Q5) A(n) ______________________________ is designed to reflect formal approval of a payment and to provide such added data as the account distribution and the amounts to be debited.
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Chapter 14: The Human Resources Process HR
Management and Payroll Processes
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Q1) The key functions of ensuring that the information needs of HR managers and staff workers are satisfied and serving as the liaison between the IT department and the HR department is the job position of the manager of:
A) personnel appraisal and development
B) employee and industrial relations
C) HR systems
D) personnel planning and staffing
Q2) The imprest payroll account should show a zero balance after both the debit for gross pay paid to employees and the credit for gross pay distributed to jobs in process or to expense categories has been posted to the account.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The employee/payroll master data is the central repository of data about people who work for an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The trigger for the payroll process "pay employees" is the payroll register.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Integrated Production Processes IPP
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Q1) The process of exploding the BOM results in a(n) ______________________________ requirements schedule.
Q2) In the pull approach to manufacturing, the sales forecast drives the production plan and goods are produced in large batches.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n) ______________________________ is the assigned location where a worker performs his or her job; it could be a machine or a workbench.
Q4) Which of the following specifies the operations necessary to complete a subassembly or finished good and the sequence of operations?
A) parts master
B) routing master
C) work center master
D) bill of materials
Q5) With the pull approach to manufacturing, factory machinery is arranged in
Q6) ______________________________ authorize and record movement of a job from one work center to another.
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Chapter 16: The General Ledger and Business Reporting
GLBR Process
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Q1) The XBRL framework is based on the concept of a(n) ______________________________, a group of definitions that together provide meaning to reporting concepts.
Q2) ______________________________ is methodology for assessing an organization's business performance via four components: (1) financial, (2) internal business process, (3) customers, and (4) innovation and improvement activities.
Q3) The ______________________________ process is an interacting structure of people, equipment, activities, and controls that is designed to accomplish both operations and information system functions with the purpose of generating accounting and other reports.
Q4) Which of the following statements related to XBRL is false?
A) is an XML-based language consisting of a set of tags that are used to unify the presentation of business reporting information into a single format
B) it is easily read by almost any software package, and easily searched by Web browsers
C) it provides an identifying tag for each individual item of data that is computer readable
D) it treats financial information as a block of text
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Chapter 17: Acquiring and Implementing Accounting Information Systems
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Q1) Corrective maintenance is conducted to improve the performance of an application.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The second analysis deliverable, the physical requirements are used in systems selection to acquire computer equipment for the new system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following has the task of evaluating alternative AIS solutions?
A) AIS analysis
B) AIS selection
C) AIS implementation
D) AIS operations
Q4) ______________________________ is a Web-based model of software distribution where multiple users may simultaneously use the software.
Q5) The approved systems design document documents the system design and summarizes the implementation training and test plans.
A)True
B)False
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