System Flowchart
Figure 6.4 illustrates how a customer Figure 6.4: Turn Around Document
order is transformed into a source
document, a product document, and
a turnaround document. Develop a
similar flowchart for the process of
paying hourly employees. Assume
time sheets are used and the payroll
department must total the hours.
Each hour worked by any employee
must be charged to some account (a
cost center). Each week, the manager
of each cost center receives a report
listing the employee’s name and the
number of hours charged to this
center. The manager is required to
verify that this information is correct
by signing the form and noting any
discrepancies, then sending this form back to the payroll department. Any discrepancies noted must be
corrected by the payroll department.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Shown on your right is a partial entity relationship diagram
of a purchase system. Describe the business rules
represented by the cardinalities in the diagram.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Transaction Cycle Identification
Categorize each of the following activities into the
expenditure, conversion, or revenue cycles and identify the
applicable subsystem.
a. preparing the weekly payroll for manufacturing
personnel
b. releasing raw materials for use in the
manufacturing cycle
c. recording the receipt of payment for goods sold
d. recording the order placed by a customer.
e. ordering raw materials
f. determining the quantity and amount of raw materials to order
Types of Files
For each of the following records, indicate the appropriate related file structure: master file, transaction
file, reference file, or archive file.
a. customer ledgers
b. purchase orders
c.
d.
e.
f.
list of authorized vendors
records related to prior pay periods.
vendor ledgers
hours each employee has worked during the current
pay period.
g. tax tables
h. sales orders that have been processed and recorded.
System Flowchart
Using the diagram on the right, answer the following questions:
a. Name all the symbols used.
b. Identify the operation in all the symbols used?
c. Analyze the system flowchart on for Problem 8 and
describe in detail the processes that are occurring,
d. From the diagram in Problem 8, identify three types of
errors that may cause a payroll record to be placed in the
error file. Use a program flowchart to illustrate the edit
program