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Showing posts with label Accounting Systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accounting Systems. Show all posts

Saturday, March 8, 2014

 Types of Accounts

There are basically three types of Accounts maintained for transactions :

  1. Real Accounts
  2. Personal Accounts
  3. Nominal Accounts

Sunday, February 9, 2014

The Revenue Cycle related concepts

REVENUE CYCLE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES:

Four basic business activities are performed in the revenue cycle :

  • -Sales order entry
  • -Shipping
  • -Billing
  • -Cash collection

Definitions

  • Sales order : contains information about item numbers , quantities , prices , and other  items of the sale.
  • Back order : a notification to the customer that his order can not be available .
  • Picking ticket : a list contains the items & it's quantities .
  • Packing slip : lists the quantitie & description of each item included in the shipment .
  • Bill of lading : a legal contract that defines responsibility for the goods in transit .
  • a lockbox : a postal address to which customers sends their remittances .
  • EFT (electronic funds transfer) : a way to make customers send their remittances
  • electronically to the company's bank .
  • FEDI (financial electronic data interchange) : an electronic system that solve the
  • additional data transfering in the EFT by integrats it with the EDI .

Thursday, February 6, 2014

  Questions to be addressed in this chapter include:

  • What is the meaning of system, data, and information?
  • What is an accounting information system (AIS)?
  • Why is the AIS an important topic to study?
  • What is the role of the AIS in the value chain?
  • How does the AIS provide information for decision making?
  • What are the basic strategies and strategic positions an organization can pursue?