Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CH 02
CH 02
Environment
of the Firm
Business
Firm
Figure 2-1
Organization
Information
System
Operational
System
Organizations
functions
AIS Transaction
Cycles
Business Events
from Operations
System Characteristics of
Business Firms
Objectives
Environment
Constraints
Input-Process-Output
Feedback
Controls
Subsystems
Revenue
Cycle
Billing/
A. Receivable
Cash Receipts
System
Inventory
System
General
Ledger
System
Purchasing/
A. Payable/
Cash Disb.
System
Receiving
Expenditure
Cycle
Ext/Fin. reporting
Tax & req. reporting
Internal reporting
Human
Resource
Management
(Payroll)
System
Examples of AIS
Subsystems: Service Firm Revenue
Billing/
A.Receivables
Cash Receipts
System
Human resource
Management
System
(payroll)
Service firm Revenue Cycle
General
Ledger
System
Examples of AIS
Subsystems: Production Cycle
Inventory
System
Production
System
Purchasing/
A. Payable/
Cash Disb.
System
Production Cycle
General
Ledger
System
Human
Resource
Management
(Payroll
System
Organizational Structure in
Business Firms
Hierarchical
Matrix: Blend functional and projectoriented structures
Decentralized
Network
A Networked
Organizational Structure
Marketing
Consulting
Services
Consultant
Training
Consultant
Recruitment
Customer
Project
Team
Figure 2-5
Operation
Management
Customer
Services
Management
Facilities
Supporting
Operations
Labor
(human
services)
Material
from
Supplier
Acquiring
Materials
Producing
Finished
Goods
Storing
Finished
Goods
Data
Shipping
Finished
Goods
Goods
to
Customer
Information
AIS
Funds
Figure 2-7
Funds
Data Management:
Some Specifics
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
File
Figure 2-9
From prior
processing
Source Document
Destroy
Input
document
Manual
Process
Output
document
Customer
Credit
Satisfactory?
Accept
Order
Rejection
Letter
Acknowledgement
Sales Order
Figure 2-9 - continued
To Customer
To Customer
To sales Order
Processing
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