Accounting Information Systems:
A Business Process Approach
Chapter Twelve: Using Technology
to Enhance Business Processes
Tables: 12.1 - 12.5
Table 12.1 Examples of Value Activities for ELERBE, Inc.
Primary Value
Activities
Marketing
Demonstrate
products to
faculty
Outbound
logistics
Obtain orders
Pick goods
Ship goods
Support Value Activities____________________________
Human
Technology
Resources
Acquisitions
Developm
Hire salespeople
Acquire supplies, Develop marketing
Train salespeople laptops, and products
Assign salespeople for marketing
including IT
Calculate and pay
salaries/commissions
Hire and train order Acquire supplies, Develop technologie
entry clerks,
packaging
warehouse, and
materials, and
including I
shipping personnel technology for
on-line order
Process payroll
outbound logistics processing)
Table 12.2 Examples of Tags
Category
Tag
Description
Formatting
<B> </B>
Information between these two tags
appears in bold (e.g.,
the book title).
<P>
Starts a new paragraph.
< BR >
Line break. Creates a space between lines.
Tables
< Table > < /Table >
Starts and ends a table.
< TR > < /TR >
Starts and ends a row in a table. You see two sets
of
< TR > and < /TR > tags since there are
two rows.
< TD > < /TD >
Starts and ends each data item in a row. After each
< TR > tag, you see two sets of < TD >
</TD > tags
since there are two columns
and thus two data items in
each row.
Links
< A > < /A >
< A HREF5“chapter1.html” >. The HREF attribute is
used to specify which file is being linked
to. If a student
clicks this link, the Chapter1.html file will
be displayed.
Table 12.3 Tables Used in ELERBE’s Order Processing Application
Inventory Table
ISBN
0-256-12596-7
0-127-35124-8
Author
Barnes
Cromwell
0-135-22456-7
Cromwell
0-146-18976-4
0-145-21687-7
Johnson
Platt
Title
Introduction to Business
Building Database
Applications
Management Information
Systems
Principles of Accounting
Introduction to E-Commerce
Price
$78.35
$65.00
$68.00
$70.00
$72.00
Table 12.4 Tables Stored On-Line in a Sales Application
Customer#
Last
Name
First
Name
ST
Zip
2003
Sales
Type
Street
307
308
309
Smith
Clarke
Garcia
John
Lee
John
Retail
Whol.
Retail
43 Main St.Lupo
25 Blue St. Balto
35 Lilly St. L.A.
TX
MD
CA
88010
21247
80105
10,700
3,000
4,500
Transaction#
Date
Customer#
Product#
Quantity
Price
Salesperson#
1034
1035
1036
12/18/03
12/18/03
12/20/03
307
308
309
5005
6500
5005
10
20
20
$12
$20
$12
348
344
348
1037
12/20/03
308
5703
10
$16
344
City
Table 12.5 Records Stored in a Data Warehouse
Type
Retail
Wholesale
Date
Product# Quantity Price
12/18/03 5005
10
$12
12/18/03 6500
20
Zip
88010
$20
2003 Sales
10,700
21247
12/20/03 5005
20
12/20/03 5703
80105
$16
4,500
21247
3,000
Retail
Wholesale
3,000
$12
10