ACC 340 Accounting Information Systems- Final Exam

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1.

The “S” in the acronym “AIS” stands for:

 

A)

Standard

 

B)

System

 

C)

Symbol

 

D)

none of these

 

 

 

 

 

2.

Which of the following best describes a data warehouse?

 

A)

A repository of historical information from one accounting application

 

B)

A repository of historical information from a set of accounting applications

 

C)

A repository of information from many business applications—some not accounting

 

D)

A repository of information from many businesses in the same industry

 

 

 

 

 

3.

One reason why AISs fail is because:

 

A)

They are not computerized

 

B)

They try to process non-accounting data

 

C)

They cannot produce good information from bad data

 

D)

They are incompatible with the existing processing procedures

 

 

 

 

 

4.

The hardware of a computer system includes the computer itself and other devices that help the computer perform its tasks.  These “other devices” are commonly also called:

 

A)

Helper equipment

 

B)

IT devices

 

C)

Peripheral equipment

 

D)

Secondary equipment

 

E)

Accessory equipment

 

 

 

 

 

5.

All of the following are examples of peripheral equipment except:

 

A)

Input equipment

 

B)

Output equipment

 

C)

Communications equipment

 

D)

Primary memory equipment

 

E)

Secondary storage equipment

 

 

 

 

 

6.

POS devices, bar code readers, and OCR devices are examples of:

 

A)

Input devices

 

B)

Output Devices

 

C)

Processing Devices

 

D)

Transaction Devices

 

 

 

 

 

7.

Printers and monitors are examples of:

 

A)

Output devices

 

B)

Input devices

 

C)

Processing devices

 

D)

Storage Devices

 

 

 

 

 

8.

Which type of company is most likely to use MICR?

 

A)

Grocery store

 

B)

Bank

 

C)

Phone company

 

D)

Web site seller

 

 

 

 

 

9.

An older computer system, typically using a mainframe, centralized data processing, and COBOL software, is often called a:

 

A)

Supercomputer system

 

B)

Primary system

 

C)

Legacy system

 

D)

Traditional system

 

 

 

 

 

10.

A USB drive that uses flash memory is an example of a(n):

 

A)

Input device

 

B)

Output device

 

C)

Secondary storage device

 

D)

Web device

 

 

 

 

 

11.

Which of the following is not an example of a source document?

 

A)

Receiving report

 

B)

Purchase order

 

C)

Sales order

 

D)

Aging report

 

 

 

 

 

12.

Networked enterprises and globalization have enabled a new business model called “business-without-boundaries.”  Which of the following statements describes this business model?

 

A)

Companies no longer have all of their employees in one location

 

B)

It is called offshoring and companies contract with firms in other countries to do such business processes as human resources, payroll, and accounting

 

C)

Companies are under a great deal of scrutiny to manage costs and generate revenue so they contract with foreign firms to do various business processes at a lower cost to the company

 

D)

all of the above statements describe this model

 

 

 

 

 

13.

Hacking involves:

 

A)

Stealing carbons of credit cards

 

B)

Destroying computer hardware

 

C)

Gaining illegal entry to computer files from remote locations

 

D)

Inserting a logic bomb in a computer program

 

 

 

 

 

14.

A computer virus is:

 

A)

A disease that computer programmers are very susceptible to

 

B)

A small processing routine that the user accidentally introduces into the system

 

C)

A misnomer, since unlike biological viruses, computer viruses cannot reproduce themselves

 

D)

Harmless

 

 

 

 

 

15.

An ideal control is:

 

A)

A control procedure that reduces to practically zero the risk of an error or an irregularity taking place and not being detected

 

B)

A control procedure that is anticipated to have the lowest possible cost in relation to its benefits

 

C)

A control procedure that should always be implemented into a company’s system due to the efficiency and effectiveness that will result from its implementation

 

D)

A control procedure that is always cost effective

 

 

 

 

 

16.

An approach used by many companies to reduce the risk of loss caused by the theft of assets by employees is to:

 

A)

Utilize polygraphs

 

B)

Acquire arbitrage loss protection

 

C)

Acquire fidelity bond coverage

 

D)

Institute punitive management

 

 

 

 

 

17.

Which of the following personnel policies would be the most useful in mitigating fraud or embezzlement?

 

A)

Fidelity bonds for key employees

 

B)

Careful hiring procedures for key employees

 

C)

Having a Code of Conduct

 

D)

Required vacations for key employees

 

 

 

 

 

18.

Logical access to the computer system would be best controlled by:

 

A)

Intrusion alarm systems

 

B)

Complex operating systems

 

C)

Restrictions on physical access to online terminals

 

D)

Password codes

 

 

 

 

 

19.

All of these are reasons why databases are important to AISs except:

 

A)

AIS databases store valuable information

 

B)

Many AISs are large and therefore potentially unwieldy

 

C)

The databases of some organizations are very complex

 

D)

The hard disk space used to store AIS databases is comparatively expensive

 

E)

all of these are reasons why databases are important to AISs

 

 

 

 

 

20.

All of the following are items within the data hierarchy except:

 

A)

Bit

 

B)

Character

 

C)

Data field

 

D)

Record

 

E)

all of these items are part of the data hierarchy

 

 

 

 

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Organizational Design and Structure

In this Discussion, you will compare and contrast different organizational structures, identifying their key elements.

 

The textbook reviews common and newer organizational designs. Give them a review and then answer the following questions: 

With regard to your current organization (or one with which you are familiar), which design structure is being used?

Would you consider this same organization mechanistic, organic, or hybrid? 

Do you believe this structure and design are effective given the product and the business environment? Why or why not?

Explain and substantiate your answer. Provide relevant examples for support.

 

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Physics assignment

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You are flying in an ultra-light aircraft at a speed of 41 m/s. An eagle, whose speed is 10 m/s, is flying directly toward you. Each of the given speeds is relative to the ground. The eagle emits a shrill cry whose frequency is 3400 Hz. The speed of sound is 330 m/s. What frequency do you hear?

 

Please explain each steps in arriving at the answer.

 

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STATSOLVER: USING BP CHART/DATA CHART/EXCEL/ DOTS

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Part 2: Take a weekly / monthly (even quarterly) important number from your everyday work that makes you (and your department or bosses) “sweat”… …and do a run and control chart analysis. If it’s monthly, try to have at least 2 years’ worth (24 data points). • If it’s weekly, try to have at least 6 months’ worth (~25 data points), but a year (~50 weeks) is fine, too. • If you try to use a quarterly figure, you’ll need 5 years of data (~20 data points) to get a decent chart (as in the Bacteraemia example in the tutorial). After describing your analysis, also answer these two questions: • Has this analysis made you think differently about the situation? • Given this knowledge, is there an alternative action to what’s normally done in the weekly / monthly “How’re we doin’ ?” meetings? • Go ahead and share this specific personal example at appropriate moments in this week’s DQ dialogue and Lessons Learned. I’m not looking for profundity here — just evidence that your thinking is beginning to change. So, this is more of your personal “AHA!” rather than deep analysis. I’m more concerned with innovative application and not necessarily the ‘right’ answer. Please submit your assignment in a Word document with appropriate control charts pasted in. — Be aware, I have Office 2003: Please make sure that you save your file accordingly – as a “.doc” — so that it can be read (and make sure that the graphs don’t get obliterated in the process). There seems to be some problems using “Load” in Excel 2007/2010 for some of you. I have e-mailed my friend who wrote BPChart and should hear from him soon. Meanwhile, all you have to do is OPEN (in regular Excel) the data file, highlight and “COPY” the data, then open up BPChart and “PASTE” your copied data into the database worksheet that appears when you open up BPChart. You can then close out the original data file and should now be able to get your charts. I hope this helped. Your feedback with BPChart issues has been very helpful — keep it coming! Remember: the very left column is for your TIME factor. Make sure the first piece of actual data is pasted into cell C14. Monday, June 04, 2012
 

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Assignment 3: Demand and Supply

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Assignment 3: Demand and Supply

The use of E-Books has increased in recent years, especially with the advent of mobile E-Readers.  A marketing research firm recently developed the following supply and demand schedules for E-books:

Price/E-Book

Quantity Demanded

Quantity Supplied
$18 4000 10,000
16 5000 9500
14 6000 9000
12 7000 8500
10 8000 8000
9 9000 7500
8 10000 7000
7 11000 6500
6 12000 6000
5 13000 5500
4 14000 5000
2 15000 4500

Assignment Guidelines:

Using Microsoft (MS) Excel, construct a graph showing supply and demand in the E-Book market based on the data above. (Save this file because you will re-work it later in the assignment.) When finished, copy and paste or import your graph into an MS Word document.

(Tutorials for working with MS Excel and MS Word can be found through the Tutoring Services and Tutorials link at the top of the page.)

In your MS Word document, below your imported graph, respond to the following:

  1. Explain how the Laws of Supply and Demand are illustrated in this graph. 
  2. Describe the equilibrium price and quantity in this market. 
  3. Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $12 in the E-Book market. Explain what would happen in this market. 
  4. Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $6. Explain what would happen in this market. 
  5. Now, assume that the price of E-Readers (used with E-Books) drops from $60 by fifty percent. How would this change impact the demand for E-Books? Explain your answer. Then, reconstruct your original graph to show this change and place it in your MS Word document below your explanation.   

Remember, quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books, articles, or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources can be found through the Academic Resources page under Course Home.

Save your MS Word file using the filename LastnameFirstInitial_M1A3 and submit it to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Wednesday, June 10, 2015.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria 
Maximum Points
Correctly constructed the supply and demand graph.
12
Answered Question 2-5 correctly, 15 points each.
60
Answered question 6 correctly and correctly constructed a new supply and demand graph.
8
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100

 
 

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BUS600 management communication

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The Research Paper will be a comprehensive research review of the significant principles of management communications used to successfully achieve organizational objectives. For this assignment of a minimum of eight pages, you need to integrate material from the readings, multimedia, and class discussion boards, and also reflect on professional experience where possible. It is mandatory to include research from the classroom text as well as from six scholarly sources to support your views. Consider the validity of your resources carefully before using them in academic papers. Use at least one professional example to address the topics below.

The following components must be included in order for the paper to be complete:

  • Explain effective communication norms in a business setting.
  • Describe the role of interpersonal communication both as a manager and as an employee. What specific techniques have you used to overcome barriers to communication? Be sure to specify your role in the communication.
  • Explore the role of international and intercultural interpersonal communications in today’s global businesses.
  • Describe both verbal and nonverbal management communication.
  • Explain approaches for effective written management communication.
  • Analyze various approaches for engaging an audience during a presentation and encouraging active listening.
    • Describe effective methods of conflict resolution.
    • Analyze techniques for leading teams and group meetings.

Writing the Research Paper

The Research Paper:

  • Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
  • Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
  • Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
  • Must use at least six scholarly resources, including a minimum of three from the Ashford Online Library.
  • Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

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Generating a Personal Learning Epistemology

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9-YgSzsEQ

 

Bendixen, L. D., & Rule, D. C. (2004). An integrative approach to personal epistemology: A guiding model. Educational Psychologist, 39(1), 69-80. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

 

Hofer, B. (2006). Beliefs about knowledge and knowing: Integrating domain specificity and domain generality: A response to Muis, Bendixen, and Haerle (2006). Educational Psychology Review, 18(1), 67-76. doi:10.1007/s10648-006-9000-9

 

As suggested in the required articles and video for this assignment, the definition of what a personal epistemology is has been debated. However, developing a personal learning epistemology is important because it is foundational to how we think. Without a multifaceted understanding of how we obtain knowledge, how we rely on our intelligences, and how we expand ideas in our minds, we have no intelligible path for our beliefs. A rigorous learning epistemology is essential to comprehensive reasoning and thinking.

 

Based on your current and newly developed knowledge as well as the required resources for this assignment, apply basic research methods to align the content of the information in the required course resources this week with your personally constructed learning epistemology. Apply skeptical inquiry to develop your personal epistemological beliefs through reflection on the questions below. Be aware that these questions are not the only considerations that might be included, and they should not be used verbatim; rather, they can serve as guides as you begin the process of creating your personal epistemology.

 

What can we know?

 

How can we know it?

 

What do/should individuals need to learn, and why? 

 

What purpose(s) should education serve?

 

How do you believe persons acquire knowledge best?

 

What image of society and the kinds of adults that populate it seems to correspond with your vision of knowing/learning?

 

What do you believe about the way students learn and why they may (or may not) want to learn?

 

Why do we know some things but not others?

 

How do we acquire knowledge?

 

Is knowledge possible?

 

Can knowledge be certain?

 

How can we differentiate truth from falsehood?

 

Why do we believe certain claims and not others?

 

According to Plato, knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed. Do you agree or disagree?

 

After developing basic answers to the questions above and considering the impact of understanding how one’s own conscience awareness of knowledge and learning  may affect individual development and beliefs manifestations, research a minimum of five peer-reviewed articles in the Ashford University Library that can be used as support sources for your personal learning epistemology. Your learning epistemology must include six to seven key points with supporting rationales regarding your beliefs on learning and knowing.

 

Apply professional standards to your explanation regarding how knowledge is developed by providing references for any theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and/or empirical findings you include in your epistemology. Additionally, your personal epistemology should be an authentic and truthful explanation about your current beliefs about learning and knowing, as supported by your research, and not merely reflective of what you think your instructor or peers want to hear.

 

The paper should not include any elaborate quotes; it should be scholarly in nature with citations throughout.

 

The paper:

 

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length, not including the title or references pages, and formatted according to APA style

 

Must begin with an introductory paragraph.

 

Must address the topic with critical thought and support all assertions with peer-reviewed sources.

 

Must end with a conclusion that synthesizes your belief statements about knowing and learning.

 

Must use at least five peer-reviewed sources

 

Must document all sources in APA style

 

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style

 

 

 

 

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Literature review on topic Homeschool vs Public School

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Students will complete a review of the literature on a topic of interest to them.  They should select the topic as if they were planning to conduct research on it.  Students should gather between 10 valid outside sources (peer-reviewed journal articles, articles from trade publications, reports from government agencies, and reputable non-for-profit or educational organizations, or books based on empirical research). Based on these sources, they will write a 4 page thematic literature review, including a title page and a reference page in APA style.

 

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I need someone to proof read an APA paper

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I just need you to basically grade it and suggest fixes, also check spelling, APA formatting and grammar. There are 12 pages.

 

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