Offering concise, user-friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. The text is an excellent stand-alone resource for a shorter course in accounting information systems, or the perfect foundation textbook for a longer class in which you choose to integrate other materials such as software manuals, casebooks, and readings. Newly updated and revised for 2005, the Ninth Edition welcomes new coauthor Carolyn Strand Norman, and provides the latest information on e-commerce, XBRL, enterprise-wide software, data modeling and databases, computer technology, and more. Students will discover how accounting information systems collect, record, and store business data; learn how to develop effective internal control systems; and examine the accountants role in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining accounting information systems.
PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS.Chapter 1. An Introduction to Accounting Information Systems.Chapter 2. Documenting Accounting Information Systems.PART TWO: CONTROLS, SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS.Chapter 3. Computer Crime, Ethics, and Privacy.Chapter 4. Introduction to Internal Control Systems.Chapter 5. Computer Security and Controls for Accounting Information Systems .PART THREE: USING ACCOUNTING INFORMATION.Chapter 6. Accounting Information Systems and Business Processes: Part I.Chapter 7. Accounting Information Systems and Business Processes: Part II.Chapter 8. Accounting and Enterprise Software.PART FOUR: DATABASES.Chapter 9. Data Modeling.Chapter 10. Organizing and Manipulating the Data in Databases.PART FIVE: DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS.Chapter 11. Systems Study: Planning and Analysis.Chapter 12. Systems Study: System Design and Selection.Chapter 13. Systems Study: Implementation, Follow-Up, and Maintenance.PART SIX: SPECIAL TOPICS.Chapter 14. Information Technology Auditing.Chapter 15. Electronic Commerce and the Internet.Chapter 16. Computer Technology and AISs.Index.