Information Systems in Accounting and Finance

This textbook will offer an introductory insight into the nature, role, and context of accounting information systems. It will explore how companies integrate a range of technologies into their accounting information systems to assist in the management and control of organisational resources and the maximisation of shareholder wealth. This introductory text, aimed primarily at undergraduate students on specialist accounting-related academic programmes including degrees in Accounting and Accounting and Finance, explores the practical and technical aspects of accounting information systems and considers the social, political, and economic pressures that continue to shape the very nature of such accounting information systems with a practical user-orientated perspective. Each chapter will contain learning objectives, case studies, examples, references, further reading, self-review questions, questions and problems, alongside a glossary and appendix.

Promotes an understanding of the role of accounting information systems in the management and control of business Provides a framework for the evaluation of accounting-related systems and processes Includes didactic features such as learning objectives and end-of-chapter questions

Autorentext

Tony Boczko is a lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Hull, UK, in the Faculty of Law, Business and Politics. The author has undertaken consultancies for a range of UK organisations, presented academic papers at national and international conferences and, authored/co-authored textbooks on accounting, finance, and accounting information systems.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Information systems in accounting and finance: an introduction.- Chapter 2: Systems thinking.- Chapter 3: Control ... by design.- Chapter 4: Accounting information systems and the information age.- Chapter 5: Networking creating connections.- Chapter 6: Information management and data processing.- Chapter 7: Internal control and accounting information systems security.- Chapter 8: Accounting information systems: a cyclical perspective.- Chapter 9: Accounting information systems: transaction processing cycles (i).- Chapter 10: Accounting information systems: transaction processing cycles (ii).- Chapter 11: Information technology and the virtual world.- Chapter 12: Risk exposure: fraud, cyber terrorism, and computer crime.- Chapter 13: Accounting information systems audit.- Chapter 14: Accounting information systems development.