Strategic Information System: Bells Studio

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Strategic Information System: Bells Studio
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
Data flow diagram of purchases and cash disbursements systems..............................................4
Data flow diagram of payroll system...........................................................................................5
System flowchart of payroll system............................................................................................6
System flowchart of cash disbursements system.........................................................................7
System flowchart of purchases system........................................................................................8
Identified Internal Weaknesses and the risks:.................................................................................9
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................16
References:....................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction:
Bells Studio is associated with providing of Adeline based art materials which is responsible for
making this organization one of the most famous and top listed wholesaler. Different countries
are associated with acting as the investment source for Bells Studio and this countries mainly
includes the Japan, China, New Zealand and Australia. From the analysis it has also been
identified that there exists a centralized accounting system which is associated with including
terminals that are networked together and are based in different geographical locations. This
report is created with an aim of analyzing the entire organization Bells Studio for the purpose of
putting forward the different systems which are utilized by Bells Studio so as to facilitate its
processes with outmost efficiency (Goepp & Avila, 2015). For a better overview of the systems
being used by Bells Studio three major systems of the organization has been chosen and this are
Payment System, Cash Disbursement System and the Payroll System. From the analysis it can be
stated that the usage of the centralized form of accounting system is associated with highlighting
the fact that the organization Bells Studio is associated with the usage of Computers for
conducting its different operations. In addition to this there also exists some other processes as
well that has been adopted by Bells Studio for facilitating its operations and this includes the
ledger. Ledger is something which includes manual data entering and is generally used for the
data storage which includes the data gathered from different operations of Bell Studio.
The in-depth case study analysis of Bells Studio have also been highlighting the fact that
there exists certain internal weaknesses as well which are seen to be existing within the process
of Bells Studio. Along with the internal weaknesses certain faults have also been identified after
conducting the analysis (Abdolvand & Sepehri, 2016). It is only possible for the organization to
achieve efficiency if Bell Studio indulges itself in adaptation of certain measures which would

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not only be helping in understanding of the internal weaknesses but would also be responsible
for providing of clear view of the different faults of the organization as well. The faults along
with the internal weaknesses are responsible for the bringing of certain risks which are associated
with them and this risks are considered to be highly responsible for having a huge negative
impact upon the processes of Bells studio (Mostaghel et al., 2015). One of the most important
factor which is responsible for putting forward of this type of risk is the usage of human
resources for the different process of the organization.
After analyzing all the processes of Bells Studio the Dataflow Diagram along with the
flow chart diagram has been used for depicting the different process. The processes which have
been depicted in the diagrams includes the finance reporting, various transactions and many
more. The flowchart diagram has mainly been used for the purpose of depicting the flow of data
through all the main systems as well as through the associated subsystems.