Exam 13: Accounting System Development

After the system design phase is complete, the system proposal is submitted to the client for approval. What information is included in the system proposal?

Your company is replacing the accounting system in the purchasing department. As a member of accounting department, you are assigned to the planning committee for the project. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the project does not go over budget. At the first planning meeting you discover the planing committee consists of one IT developer and yourself. Prepare an email to send to your boss requesting increasing the number of people on the planning committee. Specify who you would like to include and why.

You are a staff accountant at manufacturing firm. IT is installing an new accounting system and would like to run the legacy system in parallel with the new system for a few weeks. Your boss, wanting to keep costs down, wants to stop using the legacy system as soon as the new system is installed. Prepare an email stating why the legacy system should run in parallel with the new system.

In the ABC methodology of software development, which stage of the customer stage do users enter data?

List and define the categories in Weatherbe's PIECES framework for problem analysis.

What are the advantages of using a baseline model?

Which category in Weatherbe's PIECES framework affects revenues (benefits)or costs?

In the ABC methodology of software development, which stage of the customer stage is the prototype created?

In the ABC methodology of software development, which stage of the customer stage involves reviewing and updating user requirements for the new accounting system?