AFM341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Database Server, Active Server Pages, Web Server

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM341
• Professor: Clark Hampton

Document Summary

Chapter 12 - using technology to enhance business processes. Accountants need to continually enhance the it systems. Accountants help develop processes and applications that support business strategy. As evaluators need to consider how well business processes and apps support the strategy and goals. Value-chain analysis is a technique for realizing strategies and goals by considering the contribution of various activities in a business process. It strategy organization"s broad vision for using it to support the organization"s overall business strategy and processes. It infrastructure organization of technology to support business processes. It function organization of people who are responsible for acquiring and developing info systems and supporting end-users. Systems development process apps are developed, used and maintained. Represented by the systems development life cycle - a series of steps used by organizations to build accounting applications. Accountants need good understanding to help select and develop appropriate apps. Auditors need to understand to evaluate accounting systems and controls.