Accounting Information Systems

This text seeks to show the reader how to design and use an accounting information system (AIS) to provide information useful for decision-making. Focus boxes providing real world examples of concepts, techniques and practices as described are interspersed in the text. This edition has chapters on the three basic functions of the AIS together with an understanding of what the system does manually, and on data modelling, covering how students can use query language to derive traditional financial statements and managerial reports from a database AIS.

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Romney/Steinbart—the number one AIS textbook—has what you need! This textbook offers the essential concepts you have come to expect in the previous editions, and continues to reflect the most current topics in AIS.

• NEW—Updated and expanded coverage of e-business (now in Chapter 3). Topics include how the Internet, electronic commerce, EDI, and databases are fundamentally transforming business activities, as well as how these IT developments are changing the way that businesses must account for the result of those activities.
• NEW—Expanded discussion of the REA data model (Chapter 5) features more detail on commitment events.
• NEW—Revised SysTrust coverage (Chapter 8) now follows the same structure and format as the AICPA's new service, with assurance that an information system is reliable.
• All of the cycle chapters (Chapters 11-15) now presuppose the use of an ERP system and contrasts it with legacy systems. Other important topics, such as XBRL (Chapter 15), are also covered.
• NEW—Expanded supplements package offers new practice sets, casebooks, and on-line courses.
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