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AIS - Exam 1
What is AIS?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Managerial Accounting | Provides BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE to internal users to execute strategy and manage business processes. |
| Financial Accounting | Provides structured FINANCIAL REPORTING INFORMATION for investors, creditors and other interested parties to understand the financial results of the business. |
| Process | A series of activities to achieve a goal |
| Business process | What the business does |
| Accounting process | How we record, maintain and report information to manage and evaluate the business process and create financial reporting information |
| Business processes are ______. They are how the business achieves strategic advantage. | paramount |
| Recording processes | Capture TRANSACTION DATA about each business event as they occur |
| Maintenance Processes | are accounting processes that add, update and delete MASTER DATA about resources and agents involved in transactions |
| Master Data | includes balances for items, and customer data |
| Data Flow diagrams | They show the data and accounting processes that impact that data |
| Arrows | show relationships between processes, and between processes and data stores |
| Circles | Represent Individual accounting processes |
| Data Stores | show the data that is impacted by the processes |
| Reporting processes | Reporting combines Master and transaction data. |
| Revenue | Sell goods and services and collect cash |
| Expenditure | Purchase and pay for inventory and other resources needed by the business |
| Fixed Asset Management | Acquire and manage fixed assets |
| Human Resources mangagement | Hire, manage and pay employees |
| Manufacturing | Make goods to sell to customers |
| Project management | create services for customers |
| Financing | Acquire and repay loans; sell and repay bonds; issue stock and pay dividends; manage cash and other investments |
| What is the difference between the Manufacturing and Project Management processes? | The nature of the output (service vs tangible) |
| Revenue Master data | Customers, Inventory items, services |
| Expenditure master data | Vendors, inventory items, fixed assets, supplies |
| Fixed Asset master data | Fixed assets |
| HR master data | employees |
| Manufacturing master data | RM Inventory WIP inventory FG inventory |
| Project management master data | services |
| Financing master data | Bond holders, banks, stockholders. |