Week 12 Homework Chapter 6 Q12,13,35

Q12 Match the following terms and definitions.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)

order-to-cash
procure-to-pay
spaghetti code
three-tier architecture
database tier
application tier
user tier
firewall
business process management (BPM)

C 1. Programming code used to connect stand-alone systems

I 2. Transforming business processes to improve efficiency
B 3. Corresponds to the purchasing cycle
A 4. Corresponds to the sales cycle
G 5. Consists of front-end client computers and the user interface
H 6. Software programs on a router that monitor network traffic
E 7. Comprised of a centralized relationship database and an RDBMS
F 8. Consists of servers and applications software
D 9. When an enterprise system uses layers of IT components: enterprise
database, application, and client computers.
Q13 Match the following terms and definitions.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Software as a service
Infrastructure as a service
Cloud computing
Platform as a service

D 1. Provides the programming language and operating systems, networks, and

servers needed for application development
C 2. Providing on-demand off-site computing services
A 3. Rents you the use of software applications such as an accounting system
B 4. Lets you outsource the IT equipment needed to support our operations

Q35 Your boss, the CFO, has asked you to resolve an issue between accounting
and human resources. You investigate to obtain the facts. Your friend in

accounting tells you that in recent months after payroll checks are run, human
resources complains that a few employees have not received their paychecks.
When you talk to human resources, you learn that the department enters all new
employees immediately into the database. The department is baffled as to why
accounting cant seem to get it right. The new employees are very upset when
they call human resources after they do not receive their first paycheck.
Your next step is to talk to IT to try to unravel what is occurring. When you
explain the situation to IT, the database administrator tells you that accounting
and human resources have stand-alone databases. Although human resources
enters new employees into its database immediately, the updated data is
transferred to the accounting database on the first of each month. Payroll is run
on the last day of each month.
After gathering the facts, how would you resolve this issue? What do you tell the
CFO? What do you say to accounting? What do you tell human resources?

You will explain to the accounting and human resource departments that this problem exists because their
systems are not integrated together. Your report to CFO will include the following: The problem is with the
human resource stand-alone system. The accounting does not have access to most recent human
resource data. In some cases accounting uses a month-old human resource data. If a new employee is
entered into the system right at the beginning of the month, then accounting payroll process on the first of
the next month uses this employee data. Human resource data must be available to the accounting system
when employee pay is processed.This problem would be solved if IT integrates accounting system into the
human resource system.