Chapter 1—The Information System: An Accountant’s Perspective
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1. Information is a business resource.
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2. IT outsourcing is location-independent computing.
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3. Transaction processing systems convert non-financial transactions into financial transactions.
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4. Information lacking reliability may still have value.
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5. A balance sheet prepared in conformity with GAAP is an example of discretionary reporting.
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6. The Management Reporting System provides the internal financial information needed to manage a
business.
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7. Most of the inputs to the General Ledger System come from the Financial Reporting System.
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8. When preparing discretionary reports, organizations can choose what information to report and how to
present it.
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9. Retrieval is the task of permanently removing obsolete or redundant records from the database.
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10. Systems development represents 80 to 90 percent of the total cost of a computer system.
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11. The database administrator is responsible for the security and integrity of the database.
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