Accounting information systems / Marshall B. Romney, Paul John Steinbart.

Includes index.

Preface -- Conceptual foundations of accounting information systems -- Accounting information systems: an overview -- Overview of transaction processing and enterprise ?resource planning systems -- Systems documentation techniques -- Relational databases -- Control and audit of accounting information systems -- Computer fraud -- Computer fraud and abuse techniques -- Control and accounting information systems -- Controls for information security -- Confidentiality and privacy controls -- Processing integrity and availability controls -- Auditing computer-based information systems -- Accounting information systems applications -- The revenue cycle: sales to cash collections -- The expenditure cycle: purchasing to cash ?disbursements -- The production cycle -- The human resources management and payroll cycle -- General ledger and reporting system -- The rea data model -- Database design using the rea data model -- Implementing an rea model in a relational database -- Special topics in rea modeling -- The systems development process -- Introduction to systems development and systems ?analysis -- Ais development strategies -- Systems design, implementation, and operation -- Glossary -- Index.

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Accounting Information Systems (AIS). A market-leading text with the most comprehensive, flexible coverage of AIS available Accounting Information Systems delivers the most comprehensive and flexible coverage of each major approach to teaching AIS, giving instructors the opportunity to reorder chapters and focus the material to suit their individual course needs. The 14th Edition covers all of the most recent updates in AIS, including how developments in IT affect business processes and controls, the effect of recent regulatory developments on.

This book is intended for use in a one-semester course in accounting information systems at either the undergraduate or graduate level. Introductory financial and managerial accounting courses are suggested prerequisites, and an introductory information systems course that covers a computer language or software package is helpful, but not necessary. The book can also be used as the main text in graduate or advanced undergraduate management information systems courses.