INFT6500: Accounting Information System Report - Trimester 1 2019

This report addresses the challenges faced by Marcia's IT Development and Support, which currently relies on manual processes, leading to inefficiencies in job allocation, payroll, and payment systems. The primary objective is to implement an automated accounting information system to streamline these processes. The report includes logical data flow diagrams of both the current and proposed business systems, illustrating the transition to automation. An ER diagram is provided to represent the system's entities and relationships, particularly focusing on the payroll and revenue systems. Furthermore, the report outlines a comprehensive list of user requirements, detailing functionalities such as job creation, customer data input, task allocation to staff, and inventory management. These requirements ensure that the new system will improve efficiency and reduce errors. The report also includes relevant bibliography.

Running head: ACCOUNTING INFROMATION SYSTEM
Accounting information system
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
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Description of the problems
Maria’s organization currently follow the manual procedures in their organization and
hence they are facing many problems. In addition to the problems, the organization is also
facing issues related to time and payment.
Solution objectives
The organization is looking implement an automated system that would create an
automated job receiving and allocation process and an automated payroll and payment
system. The payroll and payment process introduced in the system would perform the invoice
checking and payment processing functions. In addition to this, the entire process of job
handling would be done by the job allocation and receiving process.

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Logical Data flow diagram of the current business

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Logical data flow diagram of the new process

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ER Diagram of the proposed system
User requirement list
The list of user requirements for the system is provide below:
 The office assistance should be able to create a new job in the system.
 The details of the new job would be obtained from the customers who are requesting a
new job from the system.
 The staffs who are to perform the task would be receiving the tasks and the task which
cannot be accepted by the staffs is sent to the waiting jobs part.
 Once the staffs are free the job is allocated by them.
 The inventory details in the system would be able to provide the staffs with the
options to check the items that are available for the task.

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 The information of the equipment’s are automatically updated by the system after the
completion of the task.

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Bibliography
Collier, P. M. (2015). Accounting for managers: Interpreting accounting information for
decision making. John Wiley & Sons.
Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2016). Management information system. Pearson Education
India.