Management Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Management Information Systems explores the design, implementation, and management of information systems that support business operations, decision-making, and strategic advantage. The course covers key topics such as information system components, database management, systems development life cycle, enterprise applications, and emerging technologies. Students will analyze real-world case studies to understand how organizations leverage information systems to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and maintain a competitive edge in a dynamic business environment. The course also emphasizes ethical, social, and security issues related to information systems management.
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Accounting Information Systems 11th Edition by Marshall B. Romney Paul J. Steinbart
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Chapter 1: Accounting Information Systems
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Q1) Within the value chain conceptual framework,organizations also perform a number of other support activities that enable the five primary value chain activities to be performed efficiently and effectively.One such support activity is research and development.This activity can be identified as a
A)firm infrastructure activity.
B)human resources activity.
C)technology activity.
D)purchasing activity.
Answer: C
Q2) In value chain analysis,what is the activity of arranging the delivery of products to customers called?
A)outbound logistics
B)inbound logistics
C)shipping
D)delivery
Answer: A
Q3) Define an accounting information system.
Answer: An AIS is a system that collects,records,stores,and processes data to produce information for decision makers.
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Chapter 2: Overview of Business Processes
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Q1) The set of fields that contain data about various attributes of the same entity forms a
A)entity
B)record.
C)file.
D)database.
Answer: B
Q2) In transaction processing,generally which activity comes first?
A)recording data in a journal
B)posting items to special journals
C)capturing data on source documents
D)posting data to a ledger
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is conceptually similar to a journal in a manual AIS?
A)database
B)master file
C)record
D)transaction file
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Systems Development and Documentation Techniques
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Q1) In a DFD,a circle represents
A)data sources and destinations.
B)the direction of data flows.
C)transformation processes.
D)data stores.
Answer: C
Q2) Which symbol would be used in a flowchart to represent a payroll master file kept on magnetic tape?
A)#4
B)#7
C)#8
D)#9
Answer: C
Q3) Data flows between two symbols on a DFD have more than one data item.More than one arrow is needed if
A)data elements always flow together.
B)data elements flow at different times.
C)data elements flow to different locations.
D)there is no guideline on use of single or multiple arrows.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Relational Databases
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Q1) What is the difference in logical view and physical view?
Q2) Which of the following would not be found in a data dictionary entry for a data item?
A)records containing a data item
B)the physical location of the data
C)the source of the data item
D)the field (data)type
Q3) Reports produced using the data dictionary could include all of the following except
A)a list of all programs where a data item is used.
B)a list of all synonyms for the data items in a particular file.
C)a list of all outputs where a data element is used.
D)a list of all the schemas included in a database.
Q4) What is a data dictionary?
Q5) Name the types of attributes that tables possess in a relational database.
Q6) All of the following are benefits of database technology except:
A)Data integration and sharing
B)Decentralized management of data
C)Minimal data redundancy
D)Reporting flexibility
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Chapter 5: Computer Fraud and Security
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Q1) Spyware is
A)Software that tells the user if anyone is spying on his computer
B)Software that monitors whether spies are looking at the computer
C)Software that monitors computing habits and sends the data it gathers to someone else
D)None of the above
Q2) Which of the following is the easiest method for a computer criminal to steal output without ever being on the premises?
A)dumpster diving
B)by use of a Trojan horse
C)using a telescope to peer at paper reports
D)electronic eavesdropping on computer monitors
Q3) Discuss antivirus software programs.
Q4) Computers that are part of a botnet and are controlled by a bot herder are referred to as
A)posers.
B)zombies.
C)botsquats.
D)evil twins.
Q5) Why do fraudulent acts often go unreported and are therefore not prosecuted?
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Chapter 6: Control and Accounting Information Systems
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Q1) Provide three reasons why AIS threats are increasing.Briefly discuss each one.
Q2) What is COSO?
Q3) Chuck Hewitt was relaxing after work with a colleague at a local watering hole.Well into his second martini,he began expressing his opinions about his company's budgeting practices.It seems that,as a result of "budget handcuffs" that require managers to explain material deviations from budgeted expenditures,his ability to creatively manage his department's activities have been curtailed.The lever of control that the company is using in this case is a
A)boundary system.
B)belief system.
C)interactive control system.
D)diagnostic control system.
Q4) Regarding project development and acquisition controls,a ________ shows how a project will be completed,including tasks and who will perform them as well as a timeline and cost estimates.
A)Performance evaluation
B)Project development plan
C)Steering committee
D)Strategic master plan
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Chapter 7: Infromation System Controls for Systems
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Q1) In 2007,a major U.S.financial institution hired a security firm to attempt to compromise its computer network.A week later,the firm reported that it had successfully entered the system without apparent detection and presented an analysis of the vulnerabilities that had been found.This is an example of a A)preventive control.
B)detective control.
C)corrective control.
D)standard control.
Q2) Describe four requirements of effective passwords
Q3) A special purpose hardware device or software running on a general purpose computer which filters information that is allowed to enter and leave the organization's information system.
A)Demilitarized zone
B)Intrusion detection system
C)Intrusion prevention system
D)Firewall
Q4) Explain the value of penetration testing.
Q5) How does an intrusion detection system work?
Q6) What are three ways users can be authenticated?
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Chapter 8: Auditing Computer-Based Information Systems
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Q1) Message acknowledgement techniques are an example of
A)Data entry controls
B)Data transmission controls
C)Output controls
D)Processing controls
Q2) The accounting department at Synergy Hydroelectric records an average of 12,500 transactions per hour.By cost-benefit analysis,managers have concluded that the maximum acceptable loss of data in the event of a system failure is 25,000 transactions.The firm's recovery point objective is therefore
A)25,000 transactions
B)12,500 transactions
C)1 hour
D)2 hours
Q3) Forms design is an example of this type of control.
A)Data entry controls
B)Data transmission controls
C)Output controls
D)Source data controls
Q4) Identify a fundamental control procedure for protecting that confidentiality of sensitive information.
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Chapter 9: Auditing Computer-Based Informtion Systems
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Q1) What is computer audit software or generalized audit software?
Q2) The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)has established five audit scope standards that outline the internal auditor's responsibilities.Which standard below deals with the principles of reliability and integrity?
A)determining whether the systems are designed to comply with operating and reporting policies
B)review of how assets are safeguarded and verification of their existence as appropriate
C)review of company operations and programs to determine whether they are being carried out as planned
D)review of operating and financial information and how it is identified,measured,classified,and reported
Q3) How would auditors determine if unauthorized program changes have been made?
A)by interviewing and making inquiries of the programming staff
B)by examining the systems design and programming documentation
C)by using a source code comparison program
D)by interviewing and making inquiries of recently terminated programming staff
Q4) What is the risk-based audit approach?
Q5) Name the four major stages of all audits.
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Chapter 10: The Revenue Cycle: Sales an Cash Collections
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Q1) All of the following edit checks for online editing of accounts receivable transactions would probably be included except
A)validity checks on customer and invoice numbers.
B)check digit verification on the amount of the sale.
C)closed loop verification on the customer name to ensure the proper account is being updated.
D)field checks on the values in dollar fields.
Q2) What is the primary objective of the revenue cycle?
A)to maximize revenue and minimize expense
B)to reduce outstanding accounts receivable balances through increased cash sales
C)to provide the right product in the right place at the right time at the right price
D)to sell as much product as possible and/or to maximize service billings
Q3) Explain how validity checks,completeness tests and reasonableness tests can be users to ensure accuracy of customer ordes.
Q4) What is cycle billing?
Q5) How can EDI help the billing and account receivable process?
Q6) In billing and accounts receivable,what documents are commonly used?
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Chapter 11: The Expenditure Cycle: Purchasing and Cash
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Q1) In the expenditure cycle,evaluated receipt settlement increases efficiency by
A)eliminating the need for receiving reports.
B)eliminating the need for vendor invoices.
C)eliminating the need for purchase orders.
D)eliminating the need to prepare and mail checks.
Q2) A legal obligation arises at the time goods are received from a supplier.The objective of accounts payable is to authorize payment only for goods or services actually ordered and received.The best way to process supplier invoices is to use
A)electronic funds transfer for small,occasional purchases from suppliers.
B)a nonvoucher system.
C)EDI for all small,occasional purchases from suppliers.
D)a disbursement voucher system.
Q3) Identify which of the following scenarios the buyer could adjust by using a debit memo document.
A)quantity different from that ordered
B)damage to the goods
C)goods that fail inspection for quality
D)All of the above are possible scenarios.
Q4) Name and describe the two common systems for approving vendor payments.
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Chapter 12: The Production Cycle
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Q1) Describe five threats to the production cycle and the applicable control procedures used to mitigate each threat.
Q2) What is activity-based costing (ABC)? How does it compare with the traditional costing methods? What are the benefits of activity-based costing?
Q3) Which of the following is not a benefit of activity-based costing?
A)Lower cost
B)Better decisions
C)Improved cost management
D)Identification of cost drivers
Q4) An AIS should be designed to provide timely and accurate information about production cycle activities that impact the other business cycles.One type of information deals with planning and controlling manufacturing costs and evaluating performance.This type of information is called
A)product mix.
B)product pricing.
C)resource allocation.
D)cost management.
Q5) Define the following: production order,materials requisition,and move ticket.
Q6) What is CIM?
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Chapter 13: The Human Resources Managementpayroll Cycle
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Q1) Payroll deductions fall into the broad categories of __________ and __________.
A)payroll tax withholdings; voluntary deductions
B)unemployment; social security taxes
C)unemployment taxes; income taxes
D)voluntary deductions; income taxes
Q2) As the payroll system processes each payroll transaction,the system should also perform which activity listed below?
A)allocate labor costs to appropriate general ledger accounts
B)use cumulative totals generated from a payroll to create a summary journal entry to be posted to the general ledger
C)both A and B above
D)The HRM system should not perform either activity A or B.
Q3) What is the purpose of a general ledger payroll clearing account?
A)to check the accuracy and completeness of payroll recording and its allocation to cost centers
B)to make the bank reconciliation easier
C)to make sure that all employees are paid correctly each week
D)to prevent the cashier from having complete control of the payroll cycle
Q4) What controls are available to address the threat of payroll errors?
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Chapter 14: General Ledger and Reporting System
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Q1) Journal entries made by either the treasurer or controller should be subject to input edit and processing controls.A check that can be made to ensure that the amount field in a journal entry contains only numeric data is called a __________.
A)validity check
B)field or format check
C)zero-balance check
D)sign check
Q2) Bobby Burns,CEO of Maudlin Motors,walked into the office of Tom Sanchez,chief information officer."Tom," he said."We have tons of data about customers,vendors,production,everything,but I don't think we're using it as well as we could.I'm thinking that we could analyze the data and try to find any patterns or relationships that would help us plan for the future." Tom should recommend that Maudlin Motors
A)implement a data mining operation.
B)set up an object linking and embedding function.
C)use online analytical processing (OLAP.)
D)implement balanced scorecard reorting.
Q3) What is a general ledger and reporting system?
Q4) What is responsibility accounting?
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Chapter 15: Data Modeling and Database Design
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Q1) Developing an REA diagram for a specific transaction cycle consists of steps.The first step involves
A)Identifying events
B)Identifying agents
C)Identifying resources
D)Identifying cardinality
Q2) Concerning cardinality,which of the following is false?
A)Cardinalities describe the nature of the relationship between two entities.
B)No universal standard exists for representing information about cardinalities in REA diagrams.
C)The minimum cardinality can be zero.
D)The maximum cardinality can be zero.
Q3) Concerning the development of an REA model,which of the following statements is true?
A)Events that pertain to the entry of data are included in the REA model.
B)The objective is to model the basic value-chain activity.
C)REA diagrams model individual transactions and data collections.
D)Information retrieval events are modeled as events in the REA model.
Q4) What is data modeling?
Q5) What are the three steps in developing an REA diagram?
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Chapter 16: Implementing an Rea Model in a Relational Database
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Q1) Technological changes
A)Do not change the mechanics of accounting procedures.
B)Have little effect on accounting process.
C)Do not change the need for management reports and financial statements.
D)Are more easily adapted using traditional AIS models.
Q2) When assigning attributes to each table,
A)The database designer must interview users to identify which facts should be included in the database.
B)The database designer must interview management to identify which facts should be included in the database.
C)The database designer must use the REA diagram to help determine in which tables those facts belong.
D)All of the above.
Q3) When implementing 1:1 and 1:N relationships
A)Foreign keys are used.
B)Separate tables could be used.
C)The primary key of one entity becomes a foreign key in the other entity's table.
D)Concatenated primary keys are used.
Q4) What is a concatenated key?
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Chapter 17: Special Topics in Rea Modeling
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Q1) Concerning the issuance of debt,the cardinality of the relationship from the Disburse Cash event to the Issue Debt event has a _____ maximum.
A)0
B)1
C)M
D)None of the above
Q2) Employee number is most likely to be a foreign key in:
A)Perform Job Operations
B)Perform Machine Operations
C)Machine Operations List
D)Work in Progress
Q3) Concerning tracking employee time,it is not necessary to link the Track Time Used entity to specific business events,however,but doing so facilitates
A)evaluating performance at a very detailed level
B)general performance evaluation
C)evaluating the quality of the services
D)All of the above are true
Q4) Why might an REA diagram show relationships between resources and agents?
Q5) Why is cost information stored in several relational tables?
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Chapter 18: Introduction to Systems Development and Systems Analysis
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Q1) Which group is responsible for preparing a systems analysis report?
A)computer analysts
B)management
C)the project development team
D)the steering committee
Q2) In which phase of the systems development life cycle are the broad needs of the users converted into detailed specifics that are coded and tested?
A)conceptual design
B)implementation and conversion
C)physical design
D)systems analysis
Q3) The type of resistance in which data are erroneously entered into a system is called A)acceptance.
B)aggression.
C)avoidance.
D)projection.
Q4) Discuss the aspects that must be considered during a feasibility study.
Q5) What are the five phases of systems analysis?
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Q6) Who makes up the project development team and what is the team's purpose?
Chapter 19: Ais Development Strategies
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Q1) What is an important benefit to be considered when allowing end users to develop a system?
A)systems are developed when they are needed
B)systems are more likely to be incompatible with other systems within the organization
C)systems are more likely to be inefficient
D)systems are often poorly controlled and documented
Q2) A company must carefully evaluate each alternative of developing in-house software,buying canned software,or using an outside third party when planning an AIS.Which statement below is true regarding such a decision?
A)Generally the best overall decision is to buy a canned software and hardware system.
B)The most efficient and effective systems are the ones developed in house.
C)Using an outside third party to develop a system always gives the organization a significant competitive advantage.
D)There is no single right answer to the build-or-buy decision.
Q3) What is prototyping? When is prototyping appropriate? What are the steps involved in prototyping? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages in prototyping.
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Chapter 20: Systems Design, Implementation and Operation
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Q1) What are the different types of documentation that should be prepared for a new system?
Q2) The conceptual design phase is the second phase in the systems design life cycle.There are several steps in this phase.Which step listed below is not a valid step made in the second phase of the SDLC?
A)evaluate design alternatives
B)physical systems design
C)prepare a conceptual systems design report
D)prepare design specifications
Q3) A software program must be changed to accommodate new tax rate values.What is the name of the process used to make such a change?
A)debugging
B)desk checking
C)program maintenance
D)programming
Q4) How can accountants help in the SDLC process?
Q5) What is the objective of output design? What are the output design considerations? What are the various categories of outputs?
Q6) What are the eight basic steps used to develop and test software programs?
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