"This textbook aims to provide students with a variety of technology and business analysis concepts and skills. It is intended for use in the first Accounting Information Systems course at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Ongoing changes in business technology-such as the move to Internet-based systems, Big Data and data analytics, software as a service, and mobile access to enterprise information, as well as increased security and control requirements-make technological skills more important than ever for accounting graduates"--

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Navigate the crossroads of accounting and IT. Kay/Ovlia is designed to assist readers’ journey as they explore the crossroads of accounting and IT–the very place where they’ll learn how to gain a competitive edge in the accounting field. To help them on their journey, this text presents information on how to develop communication, leadership, strategic and critical thinking, a customer focus, an interpretation of converging information, and technological skills.

Accounting Information Systems 2e covers the four roles for accountants with respect to information technology: users of technology and information systems, managers of users of technology, designers of information systems, and evaluators of information systems. Accountants must understand the organization and how organizational processes generate information important to management.The focus of Accounting Information Systems, 2/e is on the accountant's role as business analyst in solving business problems by database modeling, database design, and business process modeling. Unlike other texts that provide a broad survey of AIS related topics, this text concentrates on developing practical, real-world business analysis skills. Whether you are developing a new course for AIS or incorporating AIS materials into your existing curriculum, Accounting Information Systems, 2/e will help prepare your students for their future careers.

Knowing how an accounting information systems gather and transform data into useful decision-making information is fundamental knowledge for accounting professionals. Mark Simkin, Jacob Rose, and Carolyn S. Norman's essential text, Core Concepts of Accounting Information Systems, 13th Edition helps students understand basic AIS concepts and provides instructors the flexibility to support how they want to teach the course.

Hurt's Accounting Information Systems, 2e continues to take a fresh new approach that puts judgment and critical thinking, not technology, at the heart of the AIS course. Using a conversational writing style appealing to students, this book presents AIS as an art as much as a science. AIS is presented as a set of fundamental ideas and concepts that can be applied in various organisational contexts. Students are provided with vocabulary they will need to succeed in the profession and ensuring that they can communicate clearly and effectively about accounting information systems with both accountants and nonaccountants.The text end-of-chapter exercises and assessment tools are all competency-based, distilling knowledge to its essential elements and then encouraging students to use those essential elements to think for themselves.

Providing a straightforward, concise text on the essentials of accounting information systems, this student textbook emphasizes the role of the accountant as user, evaluator, and designer of accounting information systems. It stresses the typical transaction processing systems and cycles employed by a business entity and the importance of accounting control within the accounting information system. The book also includes the step-by-step procedure for analyzing, designing and implementing a computer-based accounting information system. The text is concise and provides hands-on computer assignments.