Accounting Information Systems - Hardcover

Romney, Marshall B.; Steinbart, Paul John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201357216 ISBN 13: 9780201357219

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

The #1 market leader is appropriate for MBA and undergraduate level courses in accounting information systems. The 8/e is extensively rewritten (almost 100 pages shorter) and includes a new two-color design. There is increased coverage of business strategy so that students can immediately begin to think about how information technology may be used to help organizations achieve their goals and improved coverage of databases and data modeling, including the use of Microsoft ACCESS to illustrate the concepts. There is enhanced coverage of e-commerce, including the topics of FEDI and control issues and a continued focus on transaction cycles from a business process perspective, including many new techniques that perpetrators are using to defraud companies, and an improved presentation of the systems development/acquisition process. Includes a CW web site with resources to support faculty and students.

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From the Back Cover

Are you looking for a textbook that will provide your students with the knowledge and skills the need to pursue successful careers in accounting?

Romney/Steinbart―the number one AIS textbook―has what you need! This textbook offers the essential concepts you have come to expect in the previous editions, and continues to reflect the most current topics in AIS.

• NEW―Updated and expanded coverage of e-business (now in Chapter 3). Topics include how the Internet, electronic commerce, EDI, and databases are fundamentally transforming business activities, as well as how these IT developments are changing the way that businesses must account for the result of those activities.
• NEW―Expanded discussion of the REA data model (Chapter 5) features more detail on commitment events.
• NEW―Revised SysTrust coverage (Chapter 8) now follows the same structure and format as the AICPA's new service, with assurance that an information system is reliable.
• All of the cycle chapters (Chapters 11-15) now presuppose the use of an ERP system and contrasts it with legacy systems. Other important topics, such as XBRL (Chapter 15), are also covered.
• NEW―Expanded supplements package offers new practice sets, casebooks, and on-line courses.
• NEW―The Getting Started Series―FREE with new texts! Introduce your students to the most current releases of the leading software packages―QuickBooks, Peachtree, Excel, and Simply Accounting―by packaging your choice of a free 70-page manual with new copies of Romney/Steinbart! Add Peachtree or Simply Accounting software for a nominal price.
• NEW―Microsoft Excel for Accounting: AIS and Auditing is available at a nominal charge with new textbook purchase.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201357216
• ISBN 13: 9780201357219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 796