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ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM

Midterms Assignments

Assignment 1: DATA MODELLING

1. What is Normalization in forming database?

2. What is the difference between the First, Second and Third Normal Form?
3. Why do database developers seek to normalize data?
4. What attributes (i.e., table columns) would you be likely to include in a Cash table? In a Cash Receipts
table?
5. Describe the meaning of the entity-relationship diagrams shown below:

Assignment 2: ORGANIZING DATA

Gather at least twenty-five (25) receipts in around your household and make a table manually or using
Microsoft Excel using the following format:
Accounting/
Total
Date OR/Invoice No. Merchant Particulars Quantity Price Expense
Amount
Entry

Entries should be made in chronological order. After inputting the records, identify the applicable
Accounting/Expense Entry of each record.