Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems

Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems
By:"C. Janie Chang","Laura R. Ingraham"
Published on 2006-01-06 by Wiley

Get the database skills that are in demand More and more organizations are turning to database management systems to manage their accounting and other operational data. These organizations are looking for accountants with database skills and a good understanding of information technology. With Chang and Ingraham's Data Modeling and Database Design: Using Access to Build a Database you can develop the skills needed to build an actual accounting information system. Taking an approach that is both conceptual and practical, this book will help you understand the theory of data modeling, as well as its application and ultimate implementation in database design. Key Features: * Step-by-step detailed instructions show how to model and design three essential processes of an accounting information system: the sales/collection process, the acquisition/payment process, and the human resources/payroll process. * Presents data modeling from an REA (resource-event-agent) perspective. * The approach is software-independent, but utilizes Microsoft Access 2003 to implement the data models throughout the text. * Multiple-choice and detailed problems at the end of each chapter reinforce learning. * Includes a CD-ROM containing the additional data and forms you will need to complete each chapter.

This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword accounting.

Management Accounting and Control Systems

Management Accounting and Control Systems
By:"Norman B. Macintosh","Paolo Quattrone"
Published on 2010-09-21 by John Wiley & Sons

Management accounting and control deals with administrative devices which organizations use to control their managers and employees. Management accounting systems are a very important part used to motivate, monitor, measure, and sanction, the actions of managers and employees in organizations. Management Accounting and Control Systems 2nd Edition is about the design and working of management accounting and control from an organizational and sociological perspective. It focuses on how control systems are used to influence, motivate, and control what people do in organizations. The second edition of the book takes into account the need for a general update of the content and a change in the structure of the original text, and some of the comments received by the external reviewers

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword accounting.