Publisher's Synopsis
Concise, flexible, and up–to–date!
Offering concise, user–friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. The text is an excellent stand–alone resource for a shorter course in accounting information systems, or the perfect foundation textbook for a longer class in which you choose to integrate other materials such as software manuals, casebooks, and readings.
Newly updated and revised for 2005, the Ninth Edition welcomes new coauthor Carolyn Strand Norman, and provides the latest information on e–commerce, XBRL, enterprise–wide software, data modeling and databases, computer technology, and more. Students will discover how accounting information systems collect, record, and store business data; learn how to develop effective internal control systems; and examine the accountant's role in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining accounting information systems.
Features:
- A new section in Chapter 1 entitled “What's new in AIS?” describes the latest accounting scandals, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, and key provisions of the new tax–reduction law.
- New Cases–in–Point woven into the text material and new end–of–chapter AIS–at–Work features and cases provide a real–world context.
- Four types of end–of–chapter exercises (discussion questions, problems, internet exercises, and cases) help students understand the material and gauge their progress.
- New references, citations, and web sites, both within and at the end of every chapter, allow students to explore the chapter material in greater depth.
