Accounting Information Systems Applications

• The revenue cycle:sales to cash collections
• The expenditure cycle: purchasing to cash disbursements
• The production cycle
• The human resources management and payroll cycle
• General ledger and reporting system

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

• All the activities involved in taking customer orders, fulfilling those orders, and collecting cash.
• All the activities involved in ordering, receiving, and paying for merchandise, supplies, and services.
• The implications of recent cost accounting developments, such as activity-based costing, for the design of the production cycle information system.
• The activities involved in processing payroll.
• XBRL, the balanced scorecard, the switch from GAAP to IFRS, and the proper design of graphs to support managerial decision making.