Chapter 2 part 2

Question 1

General journal

Answer 1

Are used to record infrequent or non routine transactions, such as loan payments and end-of-period adjusting and closing entries

Question 2

Specialized journal

Answer 2

Records large number of repetitive transactions such as sales, cash receipts, and cash disbursements.

Question 3

Audit trail

Answer 3

A traceable path of a transaction through a data processing system from point of origin to final output, or backwards from final output to point of origin

Question 4

File

Answer 4

Group of related records

Question 5

Master file

Answer 5

Like a ledger in a manual AIS, stores cumulative information about an organization

Question 6

Transaction file

Answer 6

Contains records of individual business transaction that occur during a specific time.

Question 7

The four different types of data processing activities

Answer 7

Creating
Reading
Updating
Deleting

Question 8

Batch processing

Answer 8

Update done periodically

Question 9

Documents

Answer 9

Records of transaction or other company data

Question 10

Reports

Answer 10

Are used by employees to control operational activities and by managers to make decisions and to formulate business strategies

Question 11

A database QUERY

Answer 11

Is used to provide the information needed to deal with problems and questions that need rapid action or answer