Accounting Information Systems: Understanding Business Processes, 4th Edition

Accounting Information Systems: understanding business processes is the fourth edition of the leading Australian and New Zealand textbook available to students who are required to study a subject on accounting information systems. A well-established and widely used textbook, the new edition continues to detail the important role of accounting and information systems in business. As students of accounting are required to possess a firm understanding of accounting information systems and how they impact upon various core business processes, the text explores the business processes that are central to many organisations and explains the many issues associated with accounting information systems.

New to the fourth edition

• New chapter on eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), which is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data that is revolutionising business reporting around the world.
• The five transaction cycle chapters contain an integrated case study — AB Hi-Fi — extending across all five chapters.
• Thoroughly rewritten chapter 15, Ethics and cybercrime, considers the issues of ethics associated with accounting information systems, and the importance of managing internal controls to remove the risk of fraudulent activity and cybercrime.
• Expanded coverage on internal controls relating to corporate and ITgovernance.

Wiley wishes you every success with your accounting studies.