Includes bibliography, glossary and index

Accounting Information Systems is one of the most exciting and dynamic fields in accounting today. Technological advances in hardware and commercial software are taking users of accounting information systems from a mainframe environment to one of mini and desktop computers. This text, Accounting Information Systems, presents information in the context of these technologies but maintains as its foundation the traditional concepts of double entry accounting. When students have completed a course using this text, they will be able to answer the key questions involved in understanding accounting information system.
Accounting Information Systems presents the up-to-date fundamentals of computers-based technology comprehensively, effectively demonstrating the relationships between today's accounting information systems and basic accounting concepts. In doing so, the text shows how accounting professionals apply management information science and data base theory to understand , design, create, and maintain accounting, reporting and control systems. In this way, the text provides students with the skills and ways of thinking that will enable them to make informed decisions about any organization's accounting information systems need.

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