Chapter 8
Accounting Information Systems and Business Processes: Part II
THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Objectives of the Production Process
Inputs to the Production Process
Outputs of the Production Process
Objectives of the Financing Process
Inputs to the Financing Process
Outputs of the Financing Process
BUSINESS PROCESSES IN SPECIAL INDUSTRIES
Professional Service Organizations
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING
Why Reengineering Sometimes Fails
AIS AT WORK—REENGINEERING HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Public Accounting Firm (Modeling Human Resource Management)
Hammaker Manufacturing I (AIS for New Manufacturing Firm)
Hammaker Manufacturing II (Business Process Reengineering or Outsourcing)
Hammaker Manufacturing III (Lean Production/Lean Accounting)
After reading this chapter, you will:
1. Appreciate the many ways technology is changing management’s ability to monitor and control business processes across the organization.
2. Know the objectives, inputs, and outputs of the resource management, production, and financing processes.
3. Understand how business strategy affects the data that are collected in the firm’s AIS and how that affects performance measures.
4. Be able to explain ...
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