Exam 17: Acquiring and Implementing Accounting Information Systems

A service bureau is a firm providing information processing services,including hardware and software,for a fee.

The goal of validating vendor proposals is to determine:

The physical requirements of a proposed system would include all of the following except:

Which of the following functions cannot be outsourced?

An intangible cost is one that cannot be reasonably quantified,such as productivity losses caused by low employee morale.

The ______________________________ approach is also referred to as the phased approach.

With the ______________________________ approach to systems implementation,the new system either is implemented one subsystem at a time or is introduced into one organizational unit at a time.

As a user,the accountant might initiate the AIS acquisition.

The ______________________________ approach forces the users to learn the new system because the old system is not available to fall back on.

The type of maintenance that is conducted to adjust applications for changing business needs and environmental challenges of an application is referred to as:

Which of the following statement regarding use of a service bureau is false?

Making program changes,correcting errors in the programs,and adding enhancements to the programs is called systems development.

Which of the following issues is not a task of systems selection?

A computer system's ______________________________ is the quantity of work performed in a period of time.

Which of the following is a characteristic of internal hardware sources?

The ______________________________ analysis or study is performed before an effectiveness analysis because the data are relatively easy to obtain and are more objective than the data on effectiveness.

The system development step that immediately precedes the structured system design step is:

______________________________ costs are associate with but not directly attributable to the system or the system change.

If a new payroll system is installed for the employees of plant 1 at time A,followed by plant 2 at time B,and finally plant 3 at time C,this is an example of the ____ approach to systems implementation.

The ______________________________ summarizes the implementation activities and provides documentation for operating the new system and for conducting the post-implementation review and systems maintenance.