Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems: Using Access to Build a Database

by Laura R. Ingraham, C. Janie Chang

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.

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

It could have been much worse.