ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM 10TH EDITION BY ULRIC GELINAS, RICHARD DULL, PATRICK WHEELER TEST BANK
Chapter 1—Introduction to Accounting Information Systems
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1. The three themes of the text are operating systems, e-business, and internal control.
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2. It is cr...
,ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM 10TH EDITION BY
ULRIC GELINAS, RICHARD DULL, PATRICK WHEELER TEST
BANK
Chapter 1—Introduction to Accounting Information Systems
TRUE/FALSE
1. The three themes of the text are operating systems, e-business, and internal control.
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2. It is critical for accountants to understand enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
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3. Information systems reliability and electronic commerce have been identified by the AICPA as
potential assurance services.
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4. E-business is the application of electronic networks to undertake business processes among the
functional areas in an organization.
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5. The role of the accountant has evolved to include non-financial information and information
technology.
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6. Enterprise systems integrate an organization's business processes and information from all of an
organization's functional areas.
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7. An information system consists of an integrated set of computer-based and manual components
established to provide information to users.
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8. Internal control is a process that provides complete assurance that the organization is meeting its
objectives, such as efficiency and effectiveness of operations and reliable reporting.
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9. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has dramatically changed the daily work of financial accountants and
auditors.
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10. According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, management must identify, document, and evaluate
significant internal controls.
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,11. According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5, management
must audit and report on auditors' assertions about the organizations' systems of internal controls.
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12. According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's Section 409, material changes in the organization's financial
condition must be disclosed to the public on a rapid and current basis.
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13. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act's Section 404 creates changes in both how companies document and evaluate
internal control and how auditors audit and report on internal control.
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14. Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance is a major line of business for the biggest accounting firms.
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15. The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 applies to publicly traded companies and not-for-profit entities.
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16. Historically the purpose of an accounting information system is to collect, process, and report financial
aspects of business events.
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17. The MIS is a subsystem of the AIS.
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18. Sales/marketing information system is traditionally part of the AIS.
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19. Billing/accounts receivable is traditionally part of the AIS.
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20. Production and personnel are part of the operations process.
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21. The management process includes marketing and sales.
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22. Information that is capable of making a difference in a decision-making situation, by reducing
uncertainty or increasing knowledge for that particular decision, has the quality of relevance.
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, 23. Information about a customer's credit history that is received after the decision to grant additional
credit lacks completeness.
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24. The consistency principle is violated when a firm uses straight-line depreciation one year and changes
to declining balance depreciation the next year.
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25. Accuracy is the correspondence or agreement between the information and the actual events or objects
that the information represents.
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26. Information has understandability when it is capable of making a difference in a decision-making
situation..
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27. The most important information for tactical management involves information about the organization's
environment.
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28. Deciding how much credit to grant to a customer is a structured decision.
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29. Strategic management requires more detailed information than operations management.
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30. The three steps in decision making take place in the sequence of (1) intelligence (2) design (3) choice.
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31. Strategic managers use more information from outside the organization than do operations managers.
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32. Operations management requires information that is more accurate and timely than strategic
management.
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33. What controls will be necessary is a question that an accountant answers in the design of the AIS.
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34. As a designer of an AIS the accountant will test a new system's controls.
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