Includes index.

Contents: An Introduction to accounting information systems: Accounting information systems and the accountant -- The Technology of accounting information systems -- Documenting accounting information systems -- Accounting information systems for collecting, recording and soring business data: Processing transactions in accounting information systems -- Transaction processing cycles in accounting information systems -- Computer files and databases -- Information and knowledge processing systems in accounting -- Internal controls within accounting information systems: The Internal control structure for accounting information systems -- Controls for computerized accounting information systems -- Computer crime and ethics -- Auditing computerized accounting information systems -- Developing effective accounting information systems: Systems study: planning and analysis -- Systems study: design work -- Completion of systems study.