ACCT 3122 : AIS Exam 1
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Reminder: conceptual quizzes at the end of each chapter. He said in class that none of those questions will be on the exam. Accounting information systems (ais) a collection of resources, such as people and equipment, designed to transform financial and other data into information. Who are the users of accounting information: external stockholders, investors, creditors, government agencies, customers and vendors, competitors, labor unions, and the public at large, internal managers. Top-level managers- use information mostly for strategic planning and control. Middle managers-need more detail (e. g. daily or weekly sales by product line) Low-level managers- receive information only for their particular subunit. Electronic data processing (edp) the use of it to perform an organizations transaction- oriented data processing. Management information systems- describes the use of it to provide decision-oriented information to managers. Decision support system data are processed into a decision-making format for the end user.
