Accounting Information Systems 1e covers the four roles for accountants with respect to information technology: 1. Users of technology and information systems, 2. Managers of users of technology, 3. Designers of information systems, and 4. Evaluators of information systems. Accountants must understand the organisation and how organisational processes generate information important to management. Richardson's focus is on the accountant's role as business analyst in solving business problems by database modeling, database design, and business process modeling. Unlike other texts that provide a broad survey of AIS related topics, this text concentrates on developing practical, real-world business analysis skills.
Part 1: AIS and the BusinessChapter 1: Accounting Information Systems
and Firm ValueChapter 2: Accountants as Business AnalystsChapter 3: Data
ModelingChapter 4: Relational Databases and Enterprise SystemsPart 2:
Business ProcessesChapter 5: Sales and Collections Business ProcessChapter 6:
Purchase and Payments Business ProcessChapter 7: Conversion Business
ProcessChapter 8: Integrated ProjectChapter 9: Reporting Processes and
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)Part 3: Managing and Evaluating
AIS ProjectsChapter 10: Accounting Information Systems and Internal
ControlsChapter 11: Information Security and Computer FraudChapter 12:
Monitoring and Auditing an AISPart 4: AIS Development and ManagementChapter
13: The Balanced Scorecard and Business Value of Information
TechnologyChapter 14: Evaluating AIS InvestmentsChapter 15: The Systems
Development Life Cycle and Project Management: Addressing the Challenges of
Building AIS SystemsGlossary of Models
Vernon J. Richardson is Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the G. William Glezen Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and a Visiting Professor at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University. He received his B.S., Masters of Accountancy, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught students at the University of Arkansas, University of Illinois, Brigham Young University, Aarhus University, University of Kansas, and the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai), Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University and the University of Technology Sydney.
Dr. Richardson is a member of the American Accounting Association. He has served as president of the American Accounting Association Information Systems section. He previously served as editor of The Accounting Review and is currently editor at the Accounting Horizons. He has published articles in the Accounting Review, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and Journal of Marketing.
