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Data Flow Diagrams and Systems Flowcharts

This document contains a tutorial on data flow diagrams, systems flowcharts, and logical and physical data flow diagrams. It provides examples and asks the reader to identify whether specific characteristics apply to physical data flow diagrams, logical data flow diagrams, or systems flowcharts. It also provides a narrative describing an order entry process and asks the reader to prepare a table of entities and activities from the narrative.

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Data Flow Diagrams and Systems Flowcharts

This document contains a tutorial on data flow diagrams, systems flowcharts, and logical and physical data flow diagrams. It provides examples and asks the reader to identify whether specific characteristics apply to physical data flow diagrams, logical data flow diagrams, or systems flowcharts. It also provides a narrative describing an order entry process and asks the reader to prepare a table of entities and activities from the narrative.

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CIA2002 Accounting Information Systems

Sem 1 2019/2020 Tutorial 3

1. “It is easier to learn to prepare data flow diagrams, which use only a few
symbols, than it is to learn to prepare systems flowcharts, which use a
number of different symbols.” Discuss.
2. Describe the who, what, where, and how of the following scenario. A
customer gives his purchase to a sales clerk, who enters the sale in a cash
register and puts the money in the register drawer. At the end of the day, the
sales clerk gives the cash and the register tape to the cashier.
3. For each of the following, indicate whether it is a characteristic of a

A. physical data flow diagram


B. logical data flow diagram
C. systems flowchart

1. A graphical representation of a system showing the system’s processes, data


stores, and the flows of data into and out of the processes and data stores.
2. A logical and physical rendering of the who, what, how, and where of information
and operations processes.
3. Depicts a system’s infrastructure.
4. Depicts the sequence of activities performed as the business events flow through
the process.
5. Includes the operations process and management context for a system.
6. Portrays a system’s activities.
7. Presents a logical and physical rendering of the who, what, how, and where of
information and operations processes.
8. Processes are labeled with nouns.
9. Processes are labeled with verbs.
10. Provides a complete picture of a system by combining the physical and logical
aspects of the system.
11. Represents what activities the system is performing, but not how, where or by
whom.
12. Specifies where, how, and by whom a system’s processes are accomplished.

4. The following narrative describes the order entry process at Adams Trading:

Adams Trading’s customers mail their orders to the Adams customer service center

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where clerks open the orders and review them for accuracy. The clerks then key
orders into the computer. As the clerk is entering data the computer populates the
order input screen with data from the applicable customer and inventory master data.
The computer displays the completed order and the clerk reviews the order (assume
there are no discrepancies) and then accepts the order (selects the “save” icon on
the input screen). The computer then creates a sales order master record, updates
the inventory master data to allocate inventory to the sales order, prints a picking
ticket in the warehouse, and displays the sales order number to the customer service
center clerk. The clerk then reads this number to the customer.

Required:

Prepare a table of entities and activities.

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