Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, exploring their role in integrating core business processes such as finance, human resources, supply chain, and customer relations within an organization. Students will examine the architecture, implementation, and management of ERP software, with a focus on leading solutions like SAP and Oracle. The course emphasizes practical applications, strategic benefits, and common challenges associated with ERP deployment and maintenance. Through case studies, hands-on exercises, and group projects, students develop the skills necessary to analyze business processes, support organizational change, and enhance enterprise decision-making through effective use of ERP systems.
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Accounting Information Systems The Crossroads of Accounting and IT 2nd Edition by Kay
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Chapter 1: Accounting Systems Insights
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Q1) List the transaction cycles. What type of transactions are in each cycle?
Answer: - Purchasing cycle or Vendor cycle-This consists of transactions related to purchasing items from vendors, including suppliers and consultants.
- Payroll cycle or Expenditure cycle-This consists of transactions related to employee and payroll.
- Sales cycle or Revenue cycle-This consists of transactions between the enterprise and customers.
Q2) The Customer Module of a baseline accounting system includes creating purchase orders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Purchasing Cycle
A)Customers Module
B)Vendors Module
C)Banking Module
D)Financial Module
E)Employees Module
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Accounting Databases
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Q1) An intersection table's primary key is a(n)________.
Answer: composite key
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
Answer: False
Q3) Account Transactions
A)Banking Cycle
B)Sales Cycle
C)Purchasing Cycle
D)Financial Cycle
E)Payroll Cycle
Answer: D
Q4) Database fields are
A)A collection of related tables
B)A collection of related records
C)Pieces of information about people, events, and objects
D)A way to input data into a database
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Accounting Interface: Database Forms, Queries, and Reports
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Q1) SQL queries allow you to search, insert, update, and delete data from a relational database.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) User-friendly data entry forms
A)Do not look like paper forms
B)Ensures dirty data
C)Mirror paper forms
D)Requires entering data twice
Answer: C
Q3) Using an input mask to format a field for a specific number of characters is a ________ technique.
Answer: data validation
Q4) What is dirty data? Provide an example.
Answer: Dirty data is data that was entered inconsistently or mistyped. For example, Germany, Germania, and Deutschland all refer to the same country. However, unless a user searches with all three terms, the search results will not return a complete list entries associated with this country. (The student may provide a different example.)
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Chapter 4: Accounting Systems and Business Processes
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Q1) By studying a ________, you will be able to quickly understand the business processes for most companies.
Q2) A data object may be a document or data record.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a flowchart, a rectangle indicates a(n)________.
Q4) Create a BPMN diagram for the Spice House Receive Inventory narrative.
Q5) An event typically NOT associated with the employee module of a baseline accounting system is
A)Pay bills
B)Pay payroll liabilities
C)Calculate payroll
D)Enter time
Q6) Create a business process map organizer for the Spice House Receive Inventory narrative.
Q7) Since a baseline accounting system is already developed, the time line for developing a system can be accelerated.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Business Processes: Purchasing, Sales, and Payroll Cycles
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Q1) The ________ module consists of transactions related to payroll.
Q2) Create a flowchart for the Nice Lawn Adjusting Entries narrative.
Q3) What are the activities in the Nice Lawn Calculate Payroll narrative?
A)Calculate Gross Pay, Calculate Withholdings, Calculate Net Pay, Authorize Payroll, Distribute Pay
B)Calculate Gross Pay, Calculate Withholdings, Calculate Net Pay, Review Payroll for Authorization, Resolve Issues, Authorize Payroll
C)Calculate Gross Pay, Calculate Withholdings, Calculate Net Pay, Authorize Payroll, Pay Liabilities
D)Calculate Gross Pay, Calculate Expenses, Calculate Net Pay, Distribute Pay, Pay Liabilities
Q4) What activities are usually included in the financial module?
Q5) The stages approach to customization involves customizing and installing customer, vendor, employee, and remaining modules for the entire enterprise at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the big bang approach to customizing an accounting system? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
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Chapter 6: Integrated Enterprise Systems and Cloud Computing
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Q1) Which form below is NOT one of the forms used in the SAP purchasing module?
A)A/P Invoice
B)Purchase Order
C)A/P PO
D)Goods Receipt PO
Q2) What are the investment, security, accessibility, data, and mobility challenges of cloud computing?
Q3) In a three-tier architecture, the user tier is called the ________.
Q4) Custom programs that connected separate systems is sometimes called ________.
Q5) The ________ cloud service level lets an enterprise out source IT equipment as needed to support operations, including data storage, hardware, servers, and networks.
Q6) Cloud computing uses remote computing facilities owned by third parties to run software applications and store files.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) The ________ cloud service level lets an enterprise out source the platform (programing languages, operating systems, networks, servers, and storage)needed to deploy or develop applications (software).
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Chapter 7: Accounting and Business Intelligence
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Q1) What are some of the data analysis tools available for software spreadsheets, such as MS Excel?
Q2) An analysis tool NOT designed for software spreadsheets is A)AutoFilter
B)PivotTables
C)Subtotal
D)Neural networks
Q3) Decision support systems provided support for strategic decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why are shadow data spreadsheets created?
Q5) In the IDM basic steps framework, quantitative analysis may consist of
A)Product quality, timeliness, the stress factor, streamlining, ease of use, overall satisfaction
B)Creative solutions and brainstorming techniques
C)Cost-benefit analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, capital budgeting
D)Make certain you have identified and are addressing the core issue rather than a symptom
Q6) What are the advantages of business intelligence technologies?
Q7) What are the intelligent components used in BI technologies?
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Chapter 8: Accounting and Sustainability Intelligence
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Q1) Which guiding principle of integrated reporting attempts to improve transparency of reporting on key economic, social, and environmental issues?
A)Connectivity of Information
B)Responsiveness and Stakeholder Inclusiveness
C)Strategic Focus
D)Conciseness, Reliability, and Materiality
Q2) The ________ sustainability reporting framework of guiding principles for establishing an environmental management system (EMS).
Q3) Biomimicry
A)Seeks sustainable solutions by avoiding nature's patterns and strategies
B)Is a type of scientific research that studies nature and does not apply discoveries to commercial use
C)Seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's patterns and strategies
D)A and B
Q4) Sustainability, a new approach to decision making, shifts the decision focus from minimizing risk to ________.
Q5) In integrated reporting, trust is improved by shifting from narrow disclosures to greater ________.
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Chapter 9: XBRL: Intelligent Business Reporting
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Q1) Which linkbase defines the relationships between the elements and the external regulations or standards?
A)Label link
B)Calculation link
C)Definition link
D)Reference link
Q2) Which of the following is the best benefit of using integrated XBRL tagging?
A)It is an additional cost to meet mandated requirements.
B)Permits companies to make more extensive use of XBRL for internal decision making
C)Enables the user of spreadsheets to track data
D)Enables the data to be retrieved from the database before adding the XBRL tags
Q3) XBRL provides ________ that permits data to be shared across different applications and IT platforms.
Q4) What information does the following XBRL tag provide?
<ifrs-gp:OtherOperatingExpenses contextRef="Dec312014" unitRef="USD" decimals="3">6920000</ifrs-gp:OtherOperatingExpenses>
Q5) What types of linkbases are used in XBRL to define relationships?
Q6) ________ is a programming language used to develop Web pages.
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Chapter 10: Fraud and Internal Control
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Q1) Objectivity
A)Internal auditors exhibit the highest level of professional objectivity in gathering, evaluating, and communicating information about the activity or process being examined.
B)The integrity of internal auditors establishes trust and thus provides the basis for reliance on their judgment.
C)Internal auditors respect the value and ownership of information they receive and do not disclose information without appropriate authority unless there is a legal or professional obligation to do so.
D)Internal auditors apply the knowledge, skills, and experience needed in the performance of internal audit services.
Q2) ________ reports are issued by the service organization to report on its controls relevant to a company's internal control over financial reporting.
Q3) Not even the strongest system of controls can eliminate all risk of organizations being defrauded by employees who are sufficiently motivated to find loopholes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cybersecurity
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Q1) Internet protocol (IP)
A)A software program that provides message transportation services between sending and receiving computers
B)A software program commonly used to connect computers to create a LAN
C)A software program that provides routing services to messages transmitted over the Internet
D)A software program that allows the enterprise network to connect to the network of vendors and suppliers through proprietary lines
Q2) The encryption method ________ combines symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.
Q3) In IT architecture security, what is NOT part of the software application ring?
A)Accounting software
B)Web browsers
C)Word processing applications
D)Relational database management system
Q4) Encryption is a method of converting plain text data into an unreadable form called
Q5) What is a honeypot and why is it used?
Q6) List and describe the IT resources categories as defined by COBIT.
Q7) ________ are crimes connected to information assets and IT.
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Chapter 12: The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: Enterprise Risk Management
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Q1) Which question pertains to assessing risk likelihood?
A)What is the estimated frequency of the threat occurring?
B)What is the asset's value?
C)What is the estimated potential loss per threat?
D)How much is the asset worth to the competition?
Q2) The International Organization for Standardization framework for risk management is ________.
Q3) Whether enterprise risk management is effective and sustainable depends upon
A)The economy
B)The weakest link in the system
C)Consumer demands
D)How transparent the enterprise is with shareholders
Q4) It is possible for a company to be 100% risk free.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Risk intelligence involves using risk in a pro active, constructive way to create additional value for the enterprise.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) What is the purpose of requiring a spreadsheet user log and change log?
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Chapter 13: Accounting System Development
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Q1) Why do accountants need to know about the processes IT professionals use for system development?
Q2) What are the advantages of using a baseline model?
Q3) The system design phase is typically the longest phase in SDLC.
A)True
B)False
Q4) System development life cycle is the order and timing of when the SDLC phases are completed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Risk feasibility assess the probability of successful implementation and use of the new system, including any legal considerations.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Design feasibility includes operational, economic, technical, schedule, cultural, and risk feasibility of the proposed IT architecture for the new system.
A)True
B)False
Q7) ________ involved analyzing user requirements for the new system.
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Chapter 14: Database Design: ERD, REA, and SQL
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Q1) A candidate key is an entity identifier that uniquely identifies an entity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Database designer realm
A)Create database tables
B)Update data
C)Create database model
Q3) A specific customer, such as Vincent, is an entity ________.
Q4) Which database architecture is a relatively new type of database?
A)Dimensional
B)XBRL
C)Relational
D)Network
Q5) In SQL, Data Definition Language statements create, alter, and drop database objects.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ________ are a crucial component of the enterprise system, containing intellectual property.
Q7) In the Spice House REA diagram, list the one-to-many relationships.
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