Information Technology for Accountants
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Course Introduction
Information Technology for Accountants explores the integration of digital tools, systems, and processes within the accounting profession. The course examines the foundational concepts of information systems, accounting software, data management, cybersecurity, and technology-driven auditing practices. Students learn about the role of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, cloud computing, and data analytics in financial reporting and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on understanding how technological advancements shape ethical considerations, regulatory compliance, and the efficiency of financial operations. The course prepares students to leverage contemporary information technology for enhanced accuracy, productivity, and strategic value in accounting contexts.
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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) Which of the following agents is internal to a company?
A)Customer
B)Employee
C)Vendor
D)Investor Answer: B
Q2) The Customer Module of a baseline accounting system includes creating purchase orders.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) An accounting system spans which of the following Value Chain components?
A)Support
B)Purchase
C)Customers
D)All the above except C Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Accounting Databases
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Q1) When requiring a user to select from a list to enter data, such as the state in an address, the database is conforming to which database integrity rule?
A)Entity integrity
B)Referential integrity
C)Domain integrity
D)Primary key integrity
Answer: C
Q2) Intersection tables do not remove duplicate records from tables that have a many-to-many relationships.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Entering data ________ reduces the change of entering errors.
Answer: once
Q4) Database ________ are used to search the database and retrieve specific data from one or more database tables.
Answer: queries
Q5) The ________ inserts, updates, and deletes data in the database.
Answer: DBMS
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Chapter 3: Accounting Interface: Database Forms, Queries, and Reports
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Q1) Which database interface component is typically used to search the database?
A)Forms
B)Queries
C)Reports
D)Navigation
Answer: B
Q2) Query builder tools may be referred to as query-by-example.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) To successfully conduct an IT audit, you must understand ________. Answer: structured query language (SQL)
Q4) The accounting system's front-end user interface is serviced by which three database essentials? What service does each database essential perform?
Answer: The front-end user interface is served by the three database essentials: database forms, database queries, and database reports. Database forms are used to input information. Database queries are used to search and retrieve the accounting data that appears in either the database form or report. The database reports are used to present the output of the system.
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Chapter 4: Accounting Systems and Business Processes
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Q1) What accountants refer to as transaction cycles IT professions call ________.
Q2) Which of the following business mapping standards graphically describes processes and data flows using only four symbols?
A)Flowcharts
B)Unified Modeling Language
C)Business Process Model and Notation 2.0
D)Data flow diagrams
Q3) Pools represent major participants in the process and are often used to identify separate organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In BPMN 2.0 a data flow is represented by an arrow with a solid line.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How is information to build a business process map collected?
Q6) The vendors module in the baseline accounting system correspond to the sales transaction cycle.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Business Processes: Purchasing, Sales, and Payroll Cycles
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Q1) Typically, vendors mail the bill separately from the items shipped.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Whether you use the big bang or stages approach when customizing an accounting system, ________ must be considered.
Q3) Create a business process map organizer for the Spice House Purchase Order narrative.
Q4) The customization approach that involves customizing one module at a time is called
A)Gap analysis
B)Stages
C)Workflow management
D)Big bang
Q5) List the activities in the Spice House Receive Customer Payment BPMN diagram.
Q6) Create a flowchart for the Nice Lawn Pay Payroll Liabilities narrative.
Q7) Create a flowchart for the Nice Lawn Pay Employees narrative.
Q8) List the gateways in the Spice House Receive Customer Payment BPMN diagram.
Q9) A ________ is a document that lists items to be ordered, quantity, vendor information, and the date. Page 7
Q10) Create a BPMN diagram for the Nice Lawn Pay Employees narrative.
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Chapter 6: Integrated Enterprise Systems and Cloud Computing
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Q1) The Internet permits remote sites to use a central database less efficiently.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Integrated enterprise systems provide an opportunity to use the shared data to create ________ and ________ to monitor enterprise performance.
Q3) The ________ cloud service level lets an enterprise out source IT equipment as needed to support operations, including data storage, hardware, servers, and networks.
Q4) What are the challenges of an integrated enterprise system?
Q5) Access to the SAP system is determined by the ________ assigned to a specific employee.
Q6) The user interface may be text-based or a ________.
Q7) SAP uses a navigation pane with tabs that correspond to the modules in the baseline accounting system.
A)True
B)False
Q8) To record items received, SAP uses a form called a ________.
Q9) What is a firewall?
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Chapter 7: Accounting and Business Intelligence
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Q1) Business ________ focuses on how to use information technology to solve business problems.
Q2) Which business intelligence tool is more likely to identify the next "must have" children's toy?
A)Shadow data
B)Predictive modeling
C)Data mining
D)Interactive decision model
Q3) What are the intelligent components used in BI technologies?
Q4) In a dimensional database with a star structure
A)The dimension database tables are all related only to the central fact table
B)There is one inner circle of dimension tables and additional dimension tables are related to the inner dimension tables
C)Queries traverse at least three tables
D)A and C
Q5) Why can data in a dimensional database with a star or snowflake structure be retrieved more quickly than from a relational database?
Q6) What is a quantitative factor? Provide an example.
Q7) Compare business intelligence technologies to shadow data.
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Chapter 8: Accounting and Sustainability Intelligence
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Q1) Sustainability reports are used by investors, consumers, society, and others to evaluate a firm's performance in terms of profit, loss, and the ability to continue as a corporation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) How can the integrative decision model be expanded to encompass the additional dimension of economic, social, and environmental factors in decision making?
Q4) The ________ model provides an organizing framework for grappling with complex and sometimes conflicting sustainability issues.
Q5) What are the three keys to sustainability?
Q6) The success of a framework or model is often based upon not perfection, but
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Chapter 9: XBRL: Intelligent Business Reporting
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Q1) Context element
A)Unit of measure
B)Numeric and nonnumeric facts
C)Time period
D)Defines the company or entity
E)Unique ID for the element
F)Explains the environment in which the data appears
Q2) The US SEC started mandating XBRL filings for selected companies in A)2009
B)2011
C)2010
D)2012
Q3) You can think of the XBRL tags as foreign keys for data contained in financial reports. A)True
B)False
Q4) What information does the following XBRL tag provide? <us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseCurrent contextRef="Dec312013" unitRef="USD" decimals="4">12984000000</us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseCurrent>
Q5) ________ is a programming language used to develop Web pages.
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Chapter 10: Fraud and Internal Control
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Q1) ________ should be assessed periodically by the organization to identify specific potential schemes and events that the organization needs to mitigate.
Q2) ________ controls are embedded within business process applications.
Q3) ________ focuses on managing when revenues and expenses are recorded in order to favorably reflect a company's financial performance in a legal manner.
Q4) Earnings management focuses on managing when revenues and expenses are recorded in order to favorably reflect a company's financial performance in a(n)________.
A)illegal manner
B)legal manner
C)questionable manner
D)vague manner
Q5) Increasingly the expectation is that the auditor and the IT professional learn more about the other's field.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Internal control is a set of policies, procedures, and activities to achieve an enterprise's objectives that are related to what?
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Chapter 11: Cybersecurity
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Q1) Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
A)This legislation requires organizations that handle credit and debit card data to meet cybersecurity requirements to safeguard the data.
B)Frank-Dodd Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
C)This legislation requires each federal agency to develop, document, and implement an agency-wide information security program.
D)This legislation requires proper internal control, including information security and controls.
E)Federal Privacy Act of 1974
F)This legislation requires financial institutions to provide customers with privacy notices and prohibits the institutions from sharing customer information with nonaffiliated third parties.
Q2) 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
Q3) ________ refers to rummaging through garbage for discarded documents or digital media.
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Chapter 12: The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: Enterprise Risk Management
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Q1) Focusing on sustainable operations increases the risk of dependence on dwindling natural resources that may become cost prohibitive in the future.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are four internal events that may pose a risk to an enterprise's ability to achieve objectives? Provide examples.
Q3) What is risk tolerance? Provide an example.
Q4) Application controls
A)IT governance
B)Business processes
C)IT processes and services
Q5) IT general controls
A)IT governance
B)Business processes
C)IT processes and services
Q6) A well developed and articulated risk management philosophy can provide consistency in risk attitudes throughout the entire enterprise.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Accounting System Development
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Q1) Cultural feasibility
A)Evaluates whether the new system deliverables can be delivered by the required due dates
B)Assesses the probability of successful implementation and use of the new system, including any legal considerations
C)Assesses whether the new system IT architecture can interact with the existing IT architecture that will remain in use
D)Analyzes the costs and benefits of the new system
E)Considers whether the environment of the enterprise is conducive to the changes and adaptations required by the new system
F)Evaluates whether the current IT personnel and enterprise users can run the new system hardware and software
Q2) The baseline stage of the ABC methodology of software development has now many basic steps?
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Chapter 14: Database Design: ERD, REA, and SQL
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Q1) Using the Nice Lawn database tables, write an SQL statement to retrieve employee addresses.
Q2) ________ databases can be classified as (1)operational databases, (2)data warehouses, or (3)XBRL databases.
Q3) Data, such as accounting data, can be facts related to
A)Records
B)Tables
C)Objects
D)RDBMS software
Q4) Operational databases almost exclusively use the ________ structure.
Q5) How are business entities and their relationships identified?
A)Determining the business rules for business transactions
B)Determining the entity identifiers
C)Normalizing the database
D)Analyzing business transactions
Q6) Detail of the ERD and information about the tables fields, such as their size and type, are stored in a document called the ________.
Q7) A ________ relationship are problematic when designing databases
Q8) In an REA model, a(n)________ included activities and transactions.
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