SUBJECT: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM

1. What are the roles of internal and external auditors?

2. What is the role of a database administrator?

3. Name the three most common ways to segment an organization.

4. What is the role of the accounting function in an organization?

5. Distinguish between the centralized and distributed approaches to organizing the IT function.

6. What is the role of the data control group?

7. What is distributed data processing?

8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of distributed data processing?

9. What types of tasks become redundant in a distributed data processing system?

10. What is a flat-file system?

11. What are the three general problems associated with data redundancy?

12. Define the key elements of the REA model.

13. What is an ERP system?

14. What three roles are played by accountants with respect to the information system?

15. Define the term attest function.

16. Define the term assurance.

17. What is IT auditing?

18. Distinguish between conceptual and physical systems.

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