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Running head: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR APEX PLUMBING LTD
Accounting Information Systems for Apex Plumbing Ltd
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ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR APEX PLUMBING LTD1
Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Identification of Participants, Inputs and Outputs.................................................................2
2.2 Development of the Current Business Process Model..........................................................4
2.3 Identification of Current Strengths and Weaknesses.............................................................6
2.4 Recommendation for Improving Present Inefficiencies........................................................7
2.5 Explanation of the Newly Reengineered System..................................................................9
3. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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1. Introduction
The report is based on understanding the various business processes that are being
performed at Apex Plumbing Ltd, which is a major wholesale supplier of different plumbing
equipment, tools and various other services. The company have formed their major operations
based on serving customers who are spread across the nation. The company has been in the
process of following their traditional information systems to deal with a wide ranging client base.
In the recent times, the company has been facing a stiff competition in the global
marketplace based on dealing with their competitors. This has majorly created competition
among their competitors to deal with price factors, understand the changing behaviour of
customers, deal with their traditional information system, which further leads them to operational
inefficiencies (Huang et al., 2015). The following sections of the report focuses on the
identification of participants, input and output processes for the event. The current business
process model of the case have been displayed and described. After the analysis of the case, the
strengths and inefficiencies have been identified. Based on the inefficiencies, the ways in which
the present business processes could be improved have been discussed.
2. Discussion
2.1 Identification of Participants, Inputs and Outputs
From the understanding of the case for the current business processes being performed at
Apex Plumbing Ltd., the current business processes, which are being performed by the involved
participants are discussed. The input and output processes, which are being performed are also
discussed accordingly.

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The participants, which are a part of the business process for Apex Plumbing Ltd are:
1. Sales Department Clerk – The sales clerk is responsible for entering the customer
order number into the centralized computer sales ordering system.
2. Customer – The customer has the option of either registering themselves as a new user
or perform a direct login function at the customer file system.
3. Warehouse Department Clerk – The clerk is responsible for reviewing the open sales
order files and print their copies for each considered new sale of orders (Rinaldi, Montanari &
Bottani, 2015). They also send one sale copy to the sales department while the other copy is
being sent to the shipping document.
4. Shipping Department Clerk – Based on receiving the receipt for the release of goods
and stock, they prepare the goods for shipping them to customers.
5. Billing Department Clerk – They perform a detailed review of the closed sales orders
from the system terminal. Hence, they are responsible for preparing two different copies of sales
invoice (Doumeingts, G., & Browne, 2016). One copy is mailed to customers while the other
copy is being stored within the billing department. The updated copy of the newly stored file is
updated by the clerk in the general ledger file.