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42) If an AIS system can helps reduce the price of promoting their products, that would show up
most prominently in which account on the income statement?
A) Sales, General and Administrative Expenses
B) Cost of Goods Sold
C) Research & Development
D) Interest Expense
43) The Information Value Chain is defined as:
A) The flow of materials, information, payments, and services.
B) The use of computer technology to provide information about business activities to
employees across the firm.
C) The overall transformation of data from a business need to the ultimate decision.
D) A centralized database that collects data from throughout the firm.
44) Customer Relationship Management is best defined as:
A) A system used to manage and nurture a firm's interactions with its current and
potential customers.
B) A system used to track a customer's past purchases.
C) A system used to connect a firm's suppliers with a firm's customers.
D) A system used to advertise current items on sale to customers.
45) The role of accountants in accounting information systems include all except:
A) User.
B) Manager.
C) Coder.
D) Evaluator.
46) A simple information system includes all of the following elements except:
A) Processing.
B) Storage.
C) Input.
D) Reporting.
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47) Branch profitability is an example of:
A) Information overload.
B) Mandatory information.
C) Discretionary information.
D) Enterprise System.
48) Bob’s manager complains that Bob suffers from “Analysis Paralysis;” that is, he spends too
much time reviewing endless reports and is reluctant to make decisions. Bob most likely
suffers from .
A) Data gridlock.
B) Discretionary information.
C) Information overload.
D) Data redundancy.
49) Which of the following systems would a company be most likely to employ for the primary
purpose of generating additional sales revenue?
A) MDBMS.
B) CRM.
C) SCM.
D) OCR.
50) The primary transformation of data into information takes place in which of the following
activities?
A) Input.
B) Storage.
C) Processing.
D) Output.
51) Discretionary information is most likely to be used in which of the following activities?
A) Preparing required Environmental Protection Agency emissions reports.
B) Filing a 10-K with the SEC.
C) Management decision-making.
D) Payroll tax reporting.
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52) Which of the following is not a primary activity in the Value Chain?
A) Outbound Logistics.
B) Marketing.
C) Inbound Logistics.
D) Information Technology.
53) One of the most important ways that ERPs benefit organizations and their business processes
is:
A) Current information is made available to all users involved in the activities and
decisions associated with a company’s business processes.
B) Information is stored in many specialized, distributed databases that each serve
separate business processes.
C) Reducing the amount of time to complete business processes by eliminating all
controls associated with the processes.
D) Preventing external business partners from accessing the organization’s data.
54) Investors reward companies most that announce IT initiatives with which type of strategic
role?
A) Automate.
B) Informate – up.
C) Transform.
D) Informate – down.
55) What Act requires auditors to evaluate the internal controls in an accounting information
system?
A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
B) Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
C) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
D) Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
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56) Which of the following diagrams most accurately illustrates an information system?
A)
B)
C)
D)
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42) If an AIS system can helps reduce the price of promoting their products, that would show up
most prominently in which account on the income statement?
A) Sales, General and Administrative Expenses
B) Cost of Goods Sold
C) Research & Development
D) Interest Expense
43) The Information Value Chain is defined as:
A) The flow of materials, information, payments, and services.
B) The use of computer technology to provide information about business activities to
employees across the firm.
C) The overall transformation of data from a business need to the ultimate decision.
D) A centralized database that collects data from throughout the firm.
44) Customer Relationship Management is best defined as:
A) A system used to manage and nurture a firm's interactions with its current and
potential customers.
B) A system used to track a customer's past purchases.
C) A system used to connect a firm's suppliers with a firm's customers.
D) A system used to advertise current items on sale to customers.
45) The role of accountants in accounting information systems include all except:
A) User.
B) Manager.
C) Coder.
D) Evaluator.
46) A simple information system includes all of the following elements except:
A) Processing.
B) Storage.
C) Input.
D) Reporting.
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47) Branch profitability is an example of:
A) Information overload.
B) Mandatory information.
C) Discretionary information.
D) Enterprise System.
48) Bob’s manager complains that Bob suffers from “Analysis Paralysis;” that is, he spends too
much time reviewing endless reports and is reluctant to make decisions. Bob most likely
suffers from .
A) Data gridlock.
B) Discretionary information.
C) Information overload.
D) Data redundancy.
49) Which of the following systems would a company be most likely to employ for the primary
purpose of generating additional sales revenue?
A) MDBMS.
B) CRM.
C) SCM.
D) OCR.
50) The primary transformation of data into information takes place in which of the following
activities?
A) Input.
B) Storage.
C) Processing.
D) Output.
51) Discretionary information is most likely to be used in which of the following activities?
A) Preparing required Environmental Protection Agency emissions reports.
B) Filing a 10-K with the SEC.
C) Management decision-making.
D) Payroll tax reporting.
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52) Which of the following is not a primary activity in the Value Chain?
A) Outbound Logistics.
B) Marketing.
C) Inbound Logistics.
D) Information Technology.
53) One of the most important ways that ERPs benefit organizations and their business processes
is:
A) Current information is made available to all users involved in the activities and
decisions associated with a company’s business processes.
B) Information is stored in many specialized, distributed databases that each serve
separate business processes.
C) Reducing the amount of time to complete business processes by eliminating all
controls associated with the processes.
D) Preventing external business partners from accessing the organization’s data.
54) Investors reward companies most that announce IT initiatives with which type of strategic
role?
A) Automate.
B) Informate – up.
C) Transform.
D) Informate – down.
55) What Act requires auditors to evaluate the internal controls in an accounting information
system?
A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
B) Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
C) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
D) Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
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56) Which of the following diagrams most accurately illustrates an information system?
A)
B)
C)
D)
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