Building Accounting Systems Using Access 2003

Building Accounting Systems Using Access 2003 gives students the unique opportunity to perform a central role in ensuring that the accounting systems they use, audit, and help design will deliver timely, accurate, and complete information. Valuable hands-on experience reinforces accounting system principles while promoting accounting efficiency and transparency that managers and decision-makers expect. This text is a powerful tool that you can give your students to help them bring accounting systems into a focused perspective.

This textbook introduces the Windows XP operating system, the Microsoft Access database management package, and database theory, then explains the accounting transaction cycles and how to build accounting system elements for each of the four main transaction cycles: revenue, purchase, payroll, and production. The CD-ROM contains tables and other files needed for the exercises. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

James T. Perry is Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of San Diego, School of Business. He is the author of over sixty-five textbooks and trade books. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.S. in mathematics from Purdue University.

Gary Schneider is a Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of San Diego. The author or co-author of 31 books on accounting, electronic commerce, and information topics. Gary has PhD in accounting systems from the University of Tennessee, and MBA in accounting from Xavier University.