ACCOUNTING INFORMATION

SYSTEM 1 – AIS20103
Overview of AIS and system concepts

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 Business resource –
Information vital to the survival of
business organization

Tremendous flows in
and out of
information
Information
environment
Needed by internal
and external users

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 Flows of Information

Top Management
Budget information &

Performance
Middle Management

information
Instructions

Operations Management

Operations personnel

Day to day operations

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 Information objectives

To support the
To support the
stewardship To support
firm’s day to
function of decision making
day operations
management

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 Purpose of AIS

Report
Collect Process
information

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 AIS components

Information
Software People Procedures technology Procedures Data
infrastructure

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 Transforming Data

Financial / non- Information

Users decision /
financial system
output
transactions (transform data)

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 AIS Subsystems

Transaction General Ledger / Management

processing financial reporting system
system (TPS) reporting system (MRS)

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 With AIS

Information generation

Characteristics of useful information (value

Process of added to decision-making)

Compiling Relevance

Arranging Timeliness

Formatting Accuracy

Presenting Completeness

Summarization

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