Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Components of Accounting information systems.


Accounting information systems are composed of six main components:
  1. People: users who operate on the systems
  2. Procedures and instructions: processes involved in collecting, managing and storing the data
  3. Data: data that is related to the organization and its business processes
  4. Software: application that processes the data
  5. Information technology infrastructure: the actual physical devices and systems that allows the AIS to operate and perform its functions
  6. Internal controls and security measures: what is implemented to safeguard the data.

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