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Chapter 1
Introduction to Accounting Information
Systems
Chapter 14
General Ledger
And
Business Reporting
(GL/BR)
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Learning Objectives• See how business processes feed data required
for GL updates
• Understand how GL/BR supports external & internal reporting functions
• Recognize limitations of traditional GL approach in contemporary systems
• Appreciate how PC hardware/software platforms can be used to implement GL/BR
• Examine control issues and potential problems
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Functions of GL/BR• GL
– accumulating data, classifying data by GL accounts, recording data in those accounts
– fueling FR, BR and other reporting subsystems
• BR– preparing general-purpose, external financial
statements– ensuring that F/S conform to GAAP– generating web-based forms– generating ad hoc & predetermined business
reports
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Horizontal perspectiveVP
Finance
Treasurer Controller
Businessreporting
department
Budgetingdepartment
Financial reportingofficer
Managerial reportingofficer
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Horizontal information flows• Business process feeders send updates to
business reporting department
• Treasurer notifies BR of investing transactions
• Treasurer notifies BR of financing transactions
• Controller notifies BR of adjusting entries
• Budgeting dept. send final budget figures to BR
• BR accounting dept. sends Adjusted T/B to financial reporting officer
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Horizontal information flows (2)
• BR sends actual & budget figures to budgeting department
• BR sends actual & budget figures to managerial reporting officer
• Financial reporting officer sends GAAP-based financial statements to Treasurer, Controller, and outside parties (owners, banks, SEC)
• Managerial reporting officer sends performance reports to various managers.
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Responsibility Accounting Performance Reporting
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B/AR/CRprocess
P/AP/CDprocess
Treasurer
Controller
OE/Sprocess
Treasurer
IPSprocess
Controller
Externalparties
Budgetingdepartment
Managerialreporting
officer
Budgetingdepartment
General Ledger/Business Reporting
GL invoicesupdate
GL estimatedbad debts
update
GLwrite-off
update
GL salesretrun update
GL cashreceipts update
GL payableupdate
GL cashdisbursements
update
GL inventoryreceived update
Investingtransactions
updateFinancing
transactionsupdate
Adjusting entryjournal vouchers
Finalizedbudget
Budget &actual trial
balance
GAAP-basedfinancial
statements
Standardcosts
update
Cost offinished
goods
Costvariances
update
GL inventorysale update
GL/FR Context Diagram
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GL/FR - level 0 DFD
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GL Coding• 1113 Cash in Bank
– 1xxx = assets– x1xx = current assets– xx1x = cash accounts– xxx3 = cash in bank
• --------------------------------------------------– 1111 might mean petty cash
1112 might mean change fund1121 might mean trade accounts receivable1122 might mean receivables from officers
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Charts of Accounts
• Must be flexible to meet the firm’s financial and managerial reporting needs
• For a multi-entity firm, there is need to code for departments, geographical regions, product lines, divisions, and special reporting entities
• Should accommodate “rolling up” or consolidating accounts into statements using different forms
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Technology-enabled Issues in BR
• FR modules in ERP systems
• Balanced Scorecard
• Business Intelligence
• Business Reporting via the Internet
• Public Databases
• Object-oriented databases
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FR modules in ERP systems
• Many options available for processing business events that affect multiple processes
• Options controlled to permit only users with pertinent interest to record events
• User access to ERP database also restricted to “need to know” basis
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Balanced Scorecard
• Methodology for assessing organization’s business performance via– Financial– Internal business processes– Customers– Innovation and improvement activities
• Functionality included in applications by all major ERP vendors
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Business Intelligence
• Integration of statistical and analytical tools with decision support technologies
• Facilitates complex analyses of data warehouses by managers and decision makers
• Typical module in ERP systems
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Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
• XML-based language consisting of a set of tags used to unify presentation of business reporting information into a single format
• Easily read by many software packages• Can be easily searched by web browsers• Enables easy uploading and downloading of
information to other software packages for update, analysis, etc.
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Public Databases
• Aid to financial reporting officers in determining BR treatments
• National Automated Accounting Research System (NAARS)
• The Internet may be viewed as one huge public database
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Object-oriented Databases
• Widely used in ERP systems
• Permit rapid and flexible summarization of database information into various reports
• Can easily specify predetermined report forms and see automatic reports in predetermined format
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Learning Objectives• See how business processes feed data required
for GL updates
• Understand how GL/BR supports external & internal reporting functions
• Recognize limitations of traditional GL approach in contemporary systems
• Appreciate how PC hardware/software platforms can be used to implement GL/BR
• Examine control issues and potential problems