STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

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STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................2
Body............................................................................................................................................2
Data flow diagram of revenue cycle.......................................................................................2
Data flow diagram of expenditure cycle..................................................................................4
Analysis of physical internal control weaknesses in Giant Eggplant’s systems.....................4
Description of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems.....................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References.................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The Giant eggplant company is established in the field of fruit and vegetables and
other dairy products in Rowvile, Victoria. Currently there are 25 employees are working there.
The employees are general manager, store manager, sales staff, store supervisor, clerk,
financial clerk, accounting clerk etc. having being the sales decline in the recent time, they
want to analysis the business process of their current functions along with the identification of
the problem domains and weakness to remove permanently. In this report the Data flow
diagram for the provided cycles in the case study has been developed. Both the cycles have
different set of functionalities for the company (Mourre, Astarita and Princen 2014). Along
with DFD, internal control problems in the company has been found and suggested with
recommendation of removing the weaknesses using some IT devices. It mainly indents to
research and examine the current scenarios of the company in order to revive the potential of
the company.
Body
Data flow diagram of revenue cycle
A data flow diagram represents the external entities, processes, and data store by
showing the flow of the data. The flow of the data is represented by the arrows and
messages for the arrows (Yuwen and Wang 2014). The below diagram of the Giant eggplant
system explains the processes of the Revenue cycle of the company. It represents the
checkout process of the customer along with the processing of staff in great detail. The
revenue cycle is consisting of five external entities along with the eight processes and
multiple data flows. Whereas the figure 2 represents the interaction and flow of data between
clerk, finance clerk, accounting clerk and supplier (Loock and Hacklin 2015). There are eight
processes and multiple data flows in the expenditure cycle of the company to represent the
back-store inventory management of the company.