ACCG358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Desktop Publishing, Systems Design, Financial Statement

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Accounting and Corporate Governance
• Course: ACCG358
• Professor: Anthony Wilson

Document Summary

Managers, operations, personnel from various functional areas, including finance. Individuals with an interest in the system who are not formal end users. Includes steering committee and both internal and external auditors. Three groups of users involves in the sdlc: Analysis, engineers, database designers, project managers, and programmers. Systems are sought to help solve business challenges- for instance to: Increase productivity, reduce inventories, eliminate non-value adding activities, improve customer service, enhance management decisions, and provide greater organisational coordination. In house development- system designed and developed as a bespoke solution for the organisation. Purchase of commercial systems from a software vendor. Many businesses to small to afford in house development. Changing business models and the move to distributed data processing have increased appeal to larger organisations. Appeal of turnkey, commercial systems is that they are finished, tested and ready for implementation. General accounting systems, designed to serve a wide variety of user needs.