Textbook
Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems: Using Access to Build a DatabaseISBN: 978-0-471-45087-0
Paperback
160 pages
January 2006, ©2007
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Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems: Using Access to
Develop a Database provides both a conceptual and
practical approach to Accounting Information System data
modeling and database design.
Written as a supplement, the text begins with simple, easy to understand examples of data modeling using the resource-event-agent (REA) approach to model business processes. The text then provides step-by-step instructions explaining how to convert REA diagrams into database structures. Hands-on exercises are subsequently used to help students become familiar with using Microsoft Access to implement a database.
In the final three chapters of the text, students model and design a portion of the accounting information system for a single company, Tragg’s Custom Surfboards, using the REA approach.