Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
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Course Introduction
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems is a comprehensive course that explores the integrated management of core business processes through advanced software platforms. The course covers the fundamentals of ERP systems, including their architecture, modules, implementation strategies, and the role they play in streamlining operations across finance, supply chain, human resources, and customer relationship management. Students will examine real-world ERP solutions, learn about best practices for successful deployment, and analyze case studies to understand the organizational transformation enabled by ERP systems. The course also addresses challenges such as change management, data migration, and post-implementation support, equipping students with practical skills relevant to modern enterprise environments.
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Accounting Information Systems The Crossroads of Accounting and IT 1st Edition by Donna Kay
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Chapter 1: Accounting Systems Insights
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Q1) What modules comprise a baseline accounting system?
A)Vendors, Employees, Sales, Banking, Financial, and Reports
B)Inventory, Employees, Sales, Banking, Financial, and Reports
C)Inventory, Employees, Sales, Banking, Accounting, and Reports
D)Vendors, Employees, Customers, Banking, Financial, and Reports
Answer: D
Q2) Database queries search the database to answer a specific question and extract information from one or more tables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following data is shared between a Supply Chain Management system and an accounting system?
A)The sale price of the finished product
B)The current inventory levels of the raw materials
C)The product delivery costs
D)The number of hours employees worked to create the product
Answer: B
Q4) Payroll Cycle
Answer: Answers: B
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Chapter 9: XBRL: Intelligent Business Reporting
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Q1) XBRL ________ define relationships between data. Answer: Linkbases
Q2) In XBRL, the opening and closing tags are identical.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ________ is a programming language used to develop Web pages. Answer: HTML or HyperText Markup Language
Q4) Linkbase
Answer: Answers: A
Q5) XML is a programming language also used for Web site development that is static. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q6) Which country does not use XBRL for financial reporting?
A)Israel
B)Luxembourg
C)Spain
D)Peru
Answer: D
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Chapter 8: Accounting and Sustainability Intelligence
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Q1) Although the triple bottom line and sustainability are related, ________ considers a longer run perspective.
Answer: Sustainability
Q2) ECA
Answer: Answers: C
Q3) Sustainability accounting does not impact people inside the organization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) ESA
Answer: Answers: B
Q5) ISO 14000 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Answer: Answers: E
Q6) For many corporations, decisions in the short term produce
A)Above average profits
B)Below average profits
C)Extraordinary profits
D)Average profits
Answer: C
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Chapter 7: Accounting and Business Intelligence
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Q1) Shadow data can exist in tools other that spreadsheets, such as user-developed databases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ________ technologies include analytics, data mining, and predictive modeling.
Answer: Business intelligence (BI)
Q3) The IDM consists of seven basic steps as a framework for the decision-making and evaluation process. List these steps in order.
Answer: 1. Define the opportunity or issue.
2. Identify options to address the opportunity or issue.
3. Analyze quantitative (financial)factors.
4. Analyze qualitative (non-financial)factors.
5. Make recommendation and/or decision.
6. Implement decision.
7. Evaluate performance.
Q4) The ________ database is well suited for storing data, such as transaction data, but has challenges with retrieving data.
Answer: Relational
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Chapter 6: Integrated Enterprise Systems
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Q1) Provide an example of how the integrated enterprise system technology permits data to flow through functional areas as it passes through the value chain.
Q2) In a three-tier architecture, the user tier is called the ________.
Q3) One of the benefits of an integrated enterprise system is
A)Having to change how business operations are conducted
B)The need to customize the integrated enterprise system to meet specific organizational needs
C)The integration of best practices which facilitate compliance with regulatory and accounting requirements
D)Managing the change that individuals within the organization experience as a result of the newly integrated system
Q4) When items are received from a vendor, SAP Business All-in-One requires someone to manually compare the PO, the goods received, and the bill entered (A/P Invoice).
A)True
B)False
Q5) The SAP purchasing module corresponds to the ________ module in the baseline accounting model.
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Chapter 5: Business Processes: Purchasing, Sales, and Payroll Cycles
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Q1) By changing business processes to match the baseline system, a company can expect to increase the need for custom programming.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the datastores (database tables)in the Acme Sales Narrative?
A)Customer Purchase Order, Accounts Receivable, Item
B)Customer, Sales Order, Sales Order Line, Item
C)Customer, Sales Order, Accounts Receivable, Item
D)Customer, Purchase Order, Purchase Line, Item
Q3) Create a DFD for the Spice House Cash Deposit narrative.
Q4) The ________ approach to customization involves customizing and installing customer, vendor, employee, and remaining modules for the entire enterprise at the same time.
Q5) List the agents in the EspressoCoffee Make Deposit DFD.
Q6) List the agents in the EspressoCoffee Receive Customer Payment DFD.
Q7) List the datastores in the Payroll DFD.
Q8) Payroll consists of printing payroll checks and paying payroll liabilities.
A)True
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Q9) Create an EAD table for EspressoCoffee Make Deposit DFD.
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Chapter 4: Accounting Systems and Business Processes
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Q1) Which of the following are not data flows in the Order DFD?
A)Verify Customer Identity
B)Verified Credit Information
C)Customer Information
D)Customer Credit Request
Q2) What are the five steps to create a level 2 or higher data flow diagram?
Q3) Annotating narrative involves
A)Creating an EAD table based on the narrative
B)Writing a general description of the business activity
C)Identifying and labeling the events in the narrative
D)Identifying and labeling agents in the narrative
Q4) Once the baseline accounting system is selected, the baseline system is configured or customized to meet the unique requirements and needs of the specific enterprise.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When a new accounting system is developed, organizations rarely streamline business processes to improve effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 3: Accounting Interface: Database Forms, Queries, and Reports
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Q1) Which of the following types of data validation formats a data entry field for a specific number of characters?
A)Limits checks
B)Drop-down list
C)Range checks
D)Input mask
Q2) Database queries are ________ that retrieve data from the database.
Q3) The third main clause of an SQL statement is the
A)Criteria
B)Action
C)Table name
D)Field name
Q4) The design of the reports should be consistent with the user requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is a query builder tool?
Q6) Database forms do not need security to limit data access or data entry. A)True
B)False
Q7) ________ may be used to email electronic reports to users on a scheduled basis. Page 11
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Chapter 2: Accounting Databases
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Q1) The ________ is responsible for managing the enterprise's databases.
Q2) In a one-to-one relationship, for each record in one database table there are many records in a related table.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the difference between a relational database and a network database?
Q4) Which of the relationships below is a many-to-many relationship?
A)TimeSheets, Projects
B)Employee, TimeSheets
C)TimeSheets, TS Line
D)Projects, TS Line
Q5) Describe the possible types of database issues or anomalies.
Q6) The Vendor Orders table contains the following database anomalies except
A)Deletion problem
B)Insertion problem
C)Normalization problem
D)Update problem
Q7) Employee
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Q8) What is a composite primary key and what is its purpose?
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Chapter 14: Database Design: ERD, REA, and SQL
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Q1) Well-designed databases and queries determine whether accounting professionals are able to retrieve accurate accounting data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Database anomalies are problems within a database table that result in inaccurate or incomplete data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) SQL DML statements are used to build queries required for accounting and financial applications.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Operational databases almost exclusively use the ________ structure.
Q5) Database user realm
Q6) What are the three classifications of internal database? How is each used?
Q7) Rule 2. Second Normal Form (2NF)
Q8) What is the difference between a procedural programming language and a non-procedural programming language?
Q9) In SQL, ________ statements create, alter, and drop database objects.
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Chapter 13: Accounting System Development
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Q1) How many times does the plan phase occur in the ABC methodology of software development?
A)2
B)3
C)1
D)0
Q2) Which of the following is a benefit of using the ABC methodology of software development?
A)The ABC approach incorporates the COSO framework.
B)The ABC approach is in compliance with SOX regulations.
C)The ABC approach is flexible to meet the varying needs of the enterprise through customization
D)A and C
Q3) System development life cycle is the order and timing of when the SDLC phases are completed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the basic steps in the ABC methodology?
Q5) ________ uses techniques to organize and streamline the project.
Q6) What are the basic steps in the prototype methodology?
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Chapter 12: The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: Enterprise Risk Management
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Q1) Which of the following titles does not refer to someone in the C-Suite?
A)CIO: Chief Information Officer
B)CSO: Chief Sustainability Officer
C)CIA: Certified Internal Auditor
D)CFO: Chief Financial Officer
Q2) Which ERM component involves the risk management philosophy of the enterprise, including the tone set by top management?
A)Control activities
B)Information and communication
C)Internal environment
D)Event identification
Q3) In the context of enterprise risk management, ________ refers to the process of monitoring an entity's enterprise risk management.
Q4) Entity-level IT controls
Q5) The IT control associated with top management is
A)IT general controls
B)Entity-level controls
C)Application controls
D)Event controls
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Chapter 11: Cybersecurity
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Q1) The encryption method ________ combines symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.
Q2) New IT security technology
A)Is usually worth the investment
B)Is less vulnerable to cyberattacks
C)May create vulnerabilities and risks to confidential data contained in the accounting system
D)Are usually reliable enough to adequately safeguard accounting data
Q3) What is a honeypot and why is it used?
Q4) Electronic data interchange (EDI)
Q5) The encryption method ________ uses two keys with one key used to encode and a second related, but different, key to decode the message.
Q6) Security of the IT architecture should be considered in which phase of the system development life cycle (SDLC)?
A)All the phases
B)Design phase
C)Install phase
D)Build/purchase phase
Q7) A ________ is a hardware device containing a password generator protocol that creates a new password each time the token is used.
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Chapter 10: Fraud and Internal Control
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Q1) Which of the following is not part of the audit committee's responsibilities?
A)The organization's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
B)The integrity of the organization's financial statements and reports
C)The organization's policies regarding ethical conduct
D)The organization's ability to process data efficiently and effectively
Q2) Integrity
Q3) While COSO is a broad framework for internal control in general, COBIT provides the detailed IT processes necessary to provide IT controls for monitoring and evaluating the IT environment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Confidentiality
Q5) What are the steps for building a HotSpot DFD?
Q6) Which general IT control covers acquisition, implementation, and maintenance of system software including the operating system, DBMS, network software, and security software?
A)Access security controls
B)Computer operations controls
C)Program change controls
D)Program development controls
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