Lecture Accounting information systems: Chapter 8 - Richardson, Chang, Smith

Chapter 8 - Integrated project. After studying this chapter you will be able to: After reading this chapter, you should be able to: Plan and manage a business analysis project; develop an integrated UML class diagram for a business; develop activity models of multiple business processes, and use those models to assess potential risks and opportunities for process improvements;...

Chapter 8

Integrated Project

• LO#1 Plan and manage a business analysis project

business

processes and use those models to assess potential

risks and opportunities for process improvements

implement a relational database system in Microsoft

Access™

variety of business performance questions

Sy’s Fish Company

Sy’s Fish Company owns a chain of wholesale fish

stores The company has grown rapidly over the last few

years and now operates eight different stores The

company is poised to expand further, but first needs to

develop a better accounting information system This

project involves

processes to assess opportunities for improvement and

LO# 1

Sy’s Fish Company Overview

1 Selling fish

2 Purchasing fish

3 Paying employees

4 Purchasing miscellaneous supplies and services

5 Providing refunds to customers

Sy’s Fish Company Information

employees available separately

data available separately

LO# 1

Suggested Project Steps

Prepare

Project Plan Requirem ents Determine

Prepare Activity Diagrams

Prepare Structure Diagrams

I mport Data into Access

Create Tables and Establish Relations

Prepare Queries Prepare Report

Project Deliverables

encompassing the five processes

processes

organized, relationships set to match your

UML diagram, and referential integrity

enforced

8-7

LO# 2, 3,

4, 5

• Company income statement for 1st

quarter

1st quarter

(showing all customers)

queries, but the final query in each set

should show the information required

8-8

Report Requirements

quarter

for risk management based on the BPMN

activity diagrams

use of information technology

– Refer to BPMN activity diagrams

– Consider costs and benefits

Company

tables and charts to summary relevant

8-9

LO# 2, 3,

4, 5