1.) On their websites (SAP & Oracle), you will find several online demonstrations for the SAP and Oracle ERP Systems. Visit these websites and explore their content by doing the following:

a. Search the SAP site for corporate videos, and watch two of them. Explore the industries, services, solutions, and platforms that SAP offers. Read several of the articles such as the ones about customer successes.

b. Explore the Oracle website just as you explored the SAP site.

Required: After viewing the websites, and based on your reading of the chapter, write a two-page paper that describes how an ERP can connect and integrate the revenue, expenditure, human resources payroll, and financing cycles of a business.

2. You were hired to assist Ashton Fleming in designing an accounting system for S& S. Ashton has developed a list of the journals, lefgers, reports, and documents that he thinks S&S needs )see table 2-4 below). He askes you to complete the following tasks:

a. Specify what data you think should be collected on each of the following four documents: sales invoice, purchase order, receiving report, employee time card.

b. Design a report to manage inventory

c. Design a report to assist in managing credit sales and cash collections.

d. Visit a local office supply store and identify what types of journals, ledgers and blank forms for various documents ( sales invoices, purchase orders, etc. ) are available. Describe how easily they could be adapted to meet S&S's needs.

Table 2-4 Docs, Journals and Ledgers for S&S

Title	Purpose
Documents
Sales Invoice	Record cash and credit sales of merchandise
Service Invoice	Record sales of repair services
Delivery Ticket	Record delivery of merchandise to customers
Monthly Statement	Inform customers of outstanding accounts balances
Credit Memo	Support adjustments to customer accounts for sales returns and allowances and sales discounts; also support write-off of uncollectible accounts
Purchase Order	Order merchandise from vendors
Receiving Report	Record receipt of merchandise from vendors, indicating both quantity and condition of items received
Time Card	Record time worked by employees
Specialized Journals
Sales	Record all credit sales
Cash Receipts	Record cash sales, payments from customers, and other cash receipts
Purchases	Record all purchases from vendors
Cash Disbursements	Record all cash disbursements
General Journal	Record infrequent, nonroutine transactions; also record adjusting and closing entries
Subsidiary Ledgers
Accounts Receivable	Maintain details about amounts due from customers
Accounts Payable	Maintain details amount due to vendors
Inventory	Maintain details about each inventory item
Fixed Assets	Maintain details about each piece of equipment and other fixed assets
General Ledger	Maintain details about all major asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense accounts