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Question 1

What is the steering committee? What purpose does it serve? who is likely to sit on the steering committee?

Answer 1

Usually includes the CEO, CFO, Senior management from user areas and computer services, and internal auditors. typical responsibilities include providing guidance, resolve conflicts, review projects, budget and allocate funds

Question 2

what are the 5 types of feasibility? what is telos?

Answer 2

Technical feasibility, economic feasibility, legal feasibility,, operational feasibility, schedule feasibility

Question 3

What are the key steps in project initiation

Answer 3

understanding user needs and problems, proposing multiple alternative solutions, assessing alternatives in terms of feasibility and cost-benefit characteristics, selecting the best option and proceeding to the construct phase

Question 4

what is a systems analysis

Answer 4

a two step process, supply of current systems & analysis of user needs

Question 5

what are the fast gather techniques

Answer 5

observing, participating, interviews, and reviewing documents

Question 6

what key facts are gathered as a part of the systems survey?

Answer 6

data sources and data stores, users, processes, data flows, controls

Question 7

what is a systems survey

Answer 7

identify aspects of the old system which should be retained in the new system. aids in planning the implementation of the new system

Question 8

What is composed of in the conceptual revenue cycle

Answer 8

sales order processing, sales return procedures, cash receipts processes

Question 9

what is the sales order processing composed of

Answer 9

receive order, check credit, pick goods, ship goods, bill customer, update inventory

Question 10

what is the physical revenue system

Answer 10

physical accounting info systems combine technology and human activity.

Question 11

personnel action form

Answer 11

used to activate new employees, change the pay rate of employees, terminate employees

Question 12

time card

Answer 12

used to capture the total time worked each pay period for pay roll calculation

Question 13

job tickets

Answer 13

account for the time spent by the worker on each production job

Question 14

biometric time clocks

Answer 14

verify employees identities by using fingerprints or hand vein scan technology

Question 15

proximity clocks

Answer 15

similar to swipe cards but don’t require the user to swipe card

Question 16

movie remote devices

Answer 16

allows employees to clock in using handheld devices or from computers

Question 17

xbrl

Answer 17

extensible business reporting language. and xml based language for standardizing methods, for preparing, publishing, and exchanging financial info. e.g. financial statements

Question 18

html

Answer 18

hyper text markup language. reports cannot be convenient processed through IT automation

Question 19

XBRL taxonomies

Answer 19

business offer expanded financial info to all interested parties virtually instantly, companies that use xbrl can further speed the process of reporting. can alas greatly facilitate their decision making process

Question 20

who prepares the bill of lading?

Answer 20

Shipping

Question 21

bill of lading

Answer 21

a contract between customer and carrier on the shipment of goods. prepared by shipping

Question 22

credit memo

Answer 22

the authorization for the customer to receive credit for the merchandise returned

Question 23

deposit slips

Answer 23

documents showing the amount of the days receipts