ACC 409 VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
The Components of an AIS
People Component of AIS
Processes Component of AIS
Technologies Component of AIS
Controls Component of AIS
People Component of AIS
Human beings who perform tasks involved in collecting, processing, tracking, and
reporting accounting information.
Processes Component of AIS
The tasks that people perform to get things done in an organization
Technologies Component of AIS
The things (manual or electronic) used to produce accounting information.
Controls Component of AIS
Procedures used to reduce the likelihood that something will go wrong.
Accountant's role in this Information Age
Designer
Implementer
User
,Evaluator
Manager
Designer
System analyst
Implementer
Database Administrator
user
record journal entries
evaluator
auditor
manager
controller or CFO
Information Value Chain
business need, business event -> data -> information -> knowledge -> decision
Firm value chain
inbound logistics,
operations,
outbound logistics,
marketing and sales,
service
IT strategic Role
automate, informate-up, informate-down, transform or reengineering
BPMN
, Events
Activities
Sequence Flows
Gateways
Annotations
Flowchart
start/end
task/activities
Sequence flows
decisions
Data flow diagrams
process
data source or destination
data stores
data flows
UML class diagram
Done in smart draw
Classes grouped
Resources
Events
Agents
Associations
Multiplicities
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
The Components of an AIS
People Component of AIS
Processes Component of AIS
Technologies Component of AIS
Controls Component of AIS
People Component of AIS
Human beings who perform tasks involved in collecting, processing, tracking, and
reporting accounting information.
Processes Component of AIS
The tasks that people perform to get things done in an organization
Technologies Component of AIS
The things (manual or electronic) used to produce accounting information.
Controls Component of AIS
Procedures used to reduce the likelihood that something will go wrong.
Accountant's role in this Information Age
Designer
Implementer
User
,Evaluator
Manager
Designer
System analyst
Implementer
Database Administrator
user
record journal entries
evaluator
auditor
manager
controller or CFO
Information Value Chain
business need, business event -> data -> information -> knowledge -> decision
Firm value chain
inbound logistics,
operations,
outbound logistics,
marketing and sales,
service
IT strategic Role
automate, informate-up, informate-down, transform or reengineering
BPMN
, Events
Activities
Sequence Flows
Gateways
Annotations
Flowchart
start/end
task/activities
Sequence flows
decisions
Data flow diagrams
process
data source or destination
data stores
data flows
UML class diagram
Done in smart draw
Classes grouped
Resources
Events
Agents
Associations
Multiplicities
