Accounting Information Systems

AIS Exam 1  

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Cards In This Set

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Transaction
An agreement between two entities to exhange good or sevices or any other event that can be measured in economic terms by organization
Transaction Process
The process that begins with capturing transaction data and ends with an informational output such as a the financial statement
Revenue Cycle
Where goods and services are solds for cash or a future promise to receive cash
Expenditure Cycle
Where companies purchase inventory for resale or raw materials to use in producing products in exchange for cash or a future promise to pay cash
Production Cycle
Where raw materials are transformed into finished goods
Human Resources/Payroll Cycle
Where employees are hired, trained, compensated, evaluated, promoted and terminated
Financing Cycle
Where companies sell shares in the company to investors and borrow money and where investors are paid dividens and interest is paid on loans
General Ledger and Reporting System
Is sued to generate information for both management and external parties
Data Processing Cycle
Operations performed on data to generate meaningful and relevant information
Source Documents
Paper documents used to collect data about their business activities
Turnaround Documents
Records of company data sent to an external party and then returned to the system as input
Source Data Automation
Capture transaction data in machine-readable form at the time and place of their origin
General Ledger
Contains summary-level data for every asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense account for the organization
Subsidiary Ledger
Records all the detailed data for any general ledger account that has many indiviual subaccounts
Control Account
General ledger account corresponding to a subsidiary ledger. Sum of all entries in the subsidiary ledger should be equal to the general ledger