IT ASSIGNMENT

1. Describe the steps in SDLC clearly specifying the activities and deliverables at
each step?

Ans. Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Steps in SDLC are as follows:-

• System investigation
• System analysis
• System design
• Systems implementation and maintenance
• Logical system design v/s physical system design

System Investigation:-

The following are the three activities in this stage:-

 System planning
 Feasibility study
 Feasibility report

There are four types of feasibilities:-

 Organizational feasibility
 Economic feasibility
 Technical feasibility
 Operational feasibility

System Analysis:-

It is an in-depth study of end-user information requirements that is needed before the

design of a new information system can be completed.
It traditionally involves a detailed study of;
 The information needs of the organization and its end-users.
 The activities, resources, and products of any present information systems.
 The information system capabilities required to meet the information needs of
users.

System analysis of the activities

 Analysis of the organizational environment,

 Analysis of any present systems,
 System requirements analysis,
 System requirements
Systems design:-

 System analysis describes what a system should do to meet the information needs
of users. The strategy specifies how the system will accomplish the objectives. It
consists of both logical and physical design activities.

 Logical system design (develop general specifications for how input, processing,
output storage and control activities meet the system requirements developed in
the system analysis stage).
 Physical system design (develops detailed specifications for user interface
products and methods, database structures, and control procedures. Hardware,
software, and personnel specifications are also developed for the proposed
system).
 System specifications (document and communicate the detailed specifications of
the proposed system to end-user).

System design can be viewed as the design of:

 User interface design (screen, form, report and dialog design).

 Data design (data element structure design).
 Process design (program and procedure design).

System implementations and maintenance:-

The system implementation stage involves hardware and software acquisition, software
development, testing of programs and procedures, training, development of the
documentation and a variety of installation activities. A newly designed system becomes
a reality in this stage of systems development.

System maintenance involves the monitoring, evaluating and modifying of a system to

make desirable or necessary improvements. This includes a post implementation review
process to include that the newly implemented system meets the systems development
objectives established for it.

Logical system design v/s physical system design:-

Logical system involves developing general specifications for how the basic information
system activities of input, processing, output, storage and control can meet end-user
requirements. In the system investigation stage, logical design concepts may have been
developed in a feasibility study.

Physical system design involves detailed design of the user interface products, and
methods, database structures, processing and control procedures. Hardware, software,
and personnel specifications are developed for the proposed system. Software designers
use their knowledge of business operations, information processing and hardware/
software to specify the physical design of an information system.
Diagrammatic representation of steps of SDLC
2. Elaborate on System Analyst role and what other characteristics are required by
an analyst to be effective in his role other than technical?

Ans. Role of system analyst:-The role of system analyst plays the following roles during
development of system. The analyst;
• Studies the problems and needs of an organization
• Determines how people, methods and technology can improve the system works
as an investigator by extracting real problems from existing systems.
• Monitors system in relation to quality, cost and time
• Creates a detailed physical and logical design of the system
• Introduces changes to the user organization
• Understands user’s feelings about existing and proposed system, interprets their
thoughts and draws conclusions.
• Present the system proposal to the management
• Motivates users to participate in the development and use of proposes system
• Appeases all parties involved for getting the support in development and
implementation of candidate system.

Qualities of system analyst:-

 Success in system analysis requires interpersonal and technical skills of the analyst.
The system analyst must possess following qualities. The analyst must be;
• Highly qualified in software technology
• A problem solver
• Good communicator
• Having enough computer and management experience
• Capable of tackling any problem
• Having questioning attitude and inquiring mind

QUALITIES OF
SYSTEM ANALYST

Qualified

Problem solver

Good Communicator

Experienced

Creator

3) What do you mean by HIS(Hospital Information System) and what are input
transaction document required in HRMS?

Ans. Hospital Information System:

A hospital information system (HIS), variously also called clinical information

system (CIS) is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage
the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. This encompasses
paper-based information processing as well as data processing machines. As an area of
medical informatics the aim of an HIS is to achieve the best possible support of patient
care and administration by processing. It can be composed of one or a few software
components with specialty-specific extensions as well as of a large variety of sub-
systems in medical specialties (e.g. Laboratory Information System, Radiology
Information System).CISs are sometimes separated from HISs in that the former
concentrate on patient-related and clinical-state-related data (electronic patient record)
whereas the latter keeps track of administrative issues.

The input transaction documents required for HRMS are:

 • Patient Database – To handle the queries on the existing patients and the
patients treated and discharged.
• Medical Server Database – This includes name, addresses, telephones, etc. of
all medical staff including Doctors, Nurses, and Technicians, holidays, work
times and locations on weekdays for contact
• Resource Planning and Control – An online query facility for answering
patients and other customer’s queries, scheduling and rescheduling of the
resources and the facilities.
• Medical Case History Database – Knowledge database on the case history for
the guidance and research.
• Core Applications – These inputs are also useful in manpower and personnel
planning, payroll and the employee related applications, hospital billing and
recovery.
• Critical Control Applications – This input explains the basic standards for the
control and provides exception reports to the management for forward planning
and control.

4) What are the tools and techniques of SSAD?

Ans. Structured analysis is a development method for analysis of existing system. It is a

set of techniques that allow the analyst to design the proposed system. The main purpose
of structured analysis is that it completely understands the current system.

Tools of structured analysis

Data flow diagrams, data dictionary and process descriptions are the main tools for
structured analysis.

a) Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs): Data flow diagrams are widely used graphic tools for
describing the movement of data within or outside the system. As a DFD consists of a
series of bubbles joined by lines it is also known as a ‘bubble chart’.

b) Data Dictionary: Data dictionary is an organized list of terms and their definitions
for all the data elements and data structures that are pertinent to the system. It stores
names along with their descriptions of all data used in the system.

c) Process Description: Process descriptions are another major tool of structured

analysis that describes the sequence of different process in the system. Structured
English, decision tree and decision table are commonly used process descriptions.

i) Structured English—used to describe a procedure in simple English statement.

ii) Decision Tree—used to describe a set of conditions and actions diagrammatically.

iii) Decision Table—used to describe a set of conditions and actions in a tabular

form.

Structured English
 Structured English uses narrative statements to describe a procedure. It uses three basic
types of statements:

A) Sequence Structures: They include a set of instructions that are carried out one after
another and do not depend on any condition.

B) Decision Structures: They include one or more sets of instructions that are carried out
depending upon one or more conditions. They generally use the phrase IF THEN ELSE
to carry out different actions.

C) Iteration Structures: They include a set of instructions that are repeated until a
particular condition occurs. They generally use the phrase DO WHILE…..ENDDO to
repeat a set of instructions.

Examples of three types of statements:

Sequential Structure Decision Structure Iteration Structure

Accept employee code If Basis Pay<= 1000 Ans.= “Y”
Accept employee name HRA = 500 Do while Ans.= “Y”
Accept other details else Accept employee code
If Basic Pay <= 3000 Accept employee name
HRA = 1000 Accept other details
else Display “continue (Y/N)
HRA =1500 Accept Ans
end if end do
end if

Decision Tree

Decision tree is a diagram showing the alternative actions that can be performed in a
process depending upon different set of conditions. The decision tree resembles a fallen
tree which has the roots on the left side and the branches show the actions on the right
side.
Although, decision tree is an excellent tool for sketching the logical conditions in a
process, it is not suitable foe complex conditions due to large no of branches. For
complex conditional statements, decision tables are preferred.

Decision tree for request for issue of part

Requested part
quantity is present Issue the part
Request to Part code exist in
issue a part store Requested part Modify
quantity is not quantity in
present requisition slip
 Part code does not
exist in store Slip rejected

Decision Tables

A decision table is a table that represents relationship between conditions and actions. It
consist of four parts-

Condition stub, Condition entry, Action stub and Action entry.

The different steps to make a decision table are-

a) Write different ‘IF’ condition in condition stub part and different ‘THEN’ action in
action stub part.

b) Divide the condition entry and action entry parts into as many columns as there are
actions and number these columns.

c) Put ‘Y’ or ‘N’ in each column of condition entry part, depending upon the validity of
each condition.

d) Put ‘X’ in the appropriate column of action entry part, depending upon the action
taken on validity of one or more conditions.

Decision table for request for issue of part

Conditions and Actions Rules

1 2 3

Part code exists in store Y Y N

Request part quantity is present Y N -

Issue the part X

Modify the quantity in requisition
slip X
Reject the slip X
5) Write a Short Note on:
a) Requirement Specifications
b) Economical Feasibility Study
c) Importance of Documentation

Ans. a) Requirement Specifications

A System Requirements Specification (SRS) is a document where the requirements of a

system that is planned to be developed are listed.

A Business analyst (BA), sometimes titled System analyst, is responsible for analysing
the business needs of their clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems
and propose solutions. Within the systems development life cycle domain, the BA
typically performs a liaison function between the business side of an enterprise and the
information technology department or external service providers.

Functional Requirements describe what the system, process, or product/service must do

in order to fulfill the business requirement(s). Note that the business requirement often
can be broken up into sub-business requirements and many functional requirements.
These are often referred to as System Requirements.

• An example that follows from previous business requirement example: (1)

System must provide the ability to associate notes to a project plan. (2) System
must allow the user to enter free text to the project plan notes, up to 255
characters in length.

Non Functional Requirements are requirements that cannot be met by a specific function,
e.g. performance, scalability, security and usability requirements. These are often
included within the System Requirements, where applicable.

b) Economical Feasibility Study

Economic feasibility study is done to find out the need to be based on the market forces
that could affect the commercial viability of the business. Internal projects must establish
the cost-effectiveness of the proposed system i.e. if the benefits do not outweigh the costs
then it is not worth going ahead. This includes a cost benefit analysis.

c) Importance of Documentation

Documentation:

Developing good user documentation is an important part of the implementation process.

sample data entry display screens, forms and reports are good examples of
documentation. When computer aided systems engineering methods are used ,
documentation can be created and changed easily since it is stored and accessible on disk
in the system repository. Documentation serves as a method of communication among
the people responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining a computer based
system. Installing and operating a newly designed system or modifying an established
application requires a detail record of that system’s design. Documentation is extremely
important in designing errors and making changes, especially if the end user or system
analysts, who developed a system are no longer with the organization.

6) Inputs are critical for good quality of outputs. Illustrate the ways and means you
can ensure the required quality input and explain the desire factors of output?

Ans. The ways and means by which we can ensure the required quality of input are as
follows:

 Impartiality: An Impartial information contains no bias and has been collected

without any distorted view of situation.
 Validity: The validity of input information relates to the purpose of information.
In other words, it is the answer to the question-does the information meet the
purpose of decision making for which it is being collected.
 Reliability: It is connected to the representation and the accuracy of what is being
described. For example, if the organisation collects the information on the product
acceptance in the selected market segment, the size of the sample and the method
of selection of the sample will decide the reliability. If the sample is small, the
information may not give the correct and a complete picture and hence it is not
reliable.
 Consistency: The input information is termed as inconsistent if it is derived from
a data which does not have consistent patent of period. The information must
relate to a consistent base or a pattern.

 Age: If the input information is old, it is not useful today. If the information is old
hen it does not meet any characteristics of the information viz., the update of
Knowledge, the element of surprise and the reduction of uncertainty, and the
representation.

Output design factor

The output design should be able to communicate information to the users in the
organisation effectively. The information, as an output, can be printed, displayed or
stored. If it is necessary to print the information, as a report, then the designer has to
decide the format of the report. If it is to be displayed, then the designer has to provide a
screen format.
 The design factors of output are as follows:

1. While designing the report and the screen formats, the designer should pay
attention to the concepts of information presentation so that the utility of system
is not reduced.
2. The attention should also be given to the security of information through access
control.
3. The designer should decide an appropriate between the print report and the
display screens.
4. Each report should have an appropriate title with a period reference, date of
processing and a system title. The page should be numbered, with the title
repeated and at the end of the processing it should provide the statics such as the
number of records, items, etc.
5. The layout should be such that the readability will be from left to right and from
top to bottom. Each row and column should have meaningful titles.
6. If any abbreviations are used, the expanded forms should be given alongside. As
far as possible, the abbreviation should be universal and common to all reports to
avoid confusion.
7. A good layout improves the utility of the information reports by highlighting the
areas of concern where the attention of management and its response is required
immediately.

So these are the design factors of output should be considered

7) Explain the features of ESS, DSS and Expert system?

Ans. ESS ( Executive Support System)

ESS can focus on any level of management, generally on middle level or upper level.
They mainly concentrate on leadership as well as on conceptual thinking but not on
administrative functions e.g. forecasting, policies. Within leadership function they focus
on, controlling, e.g. measuring, reporting, correcting. Directing e.g. coordinating
delegating, stimulating etc.

Common capabilities / main features are as follows:

• Drill down: Each step takes the user one step lower in detail e.g sales
performance by region, division, unit.
 • Trend analysis : results are plotted against time scale e.g. share price index
movement for a specified period.
• Exception reporting : list transaction which violate specified limits e.g. patient not
discharged on expected date.
• Menu driven : pop up, pull down.
• Ease of use : It has one of the unique feature like touch screen and voice
recognition.
• Quick grasping: Graphical presentation.

Expert Systems:

Expert systems are applications that guide performance of vaguely structured tasks which
normally require attention and specialized knowledge of experts. It emulates problem
solving behavior of the human experts.
Expert system helps in, capturing expertise from several experts, training upcoming
experts, guiding existing experts.
It is suitable for use where, problem is sufficiently complex but narrow in scope.
Decision needs to be taken based on available information. There is high pay off in
solving the problem.
Eliciting the knowledge from the experts is a costly and difficult task. E.g. experts
establish heuristics to, reduce the problem space and search the solutions.
Design of simple and efficient user interface is another major issue in development of
expert systems.
• ES in diagnosis : for solving problems of product failures, for planning
preventive maintenance measures.
• ES in sales promotion : For designing complex product configuration, for
handling complex pricing situations and for making new sales person productive.
• ES in risk assessment : For assessing insurance risk and assessing customer risk
e.g. credit card.
• ES in customer service : For guiding and responding to queries, for configuration
selection.

DSS (Decision Support System) :

Decision support systems assist in taking decisions in unstructured situations, it facilitate

in creation of alternatives. It operates in interactive manner; facilitate retrieval and
analysis of data. DSS typically helps manager who work alone.
Decision support system refers to a class of systems which support the process of
making decisions.
The process of DSS is based on the following assumptions’:
It does not replace manager’s judgment, maximum pay offs is accrued in tackling semi
structured decisions.
Degree of structure in a decisions may vary with the phase of decision making e.g.
intelligence, design, choice.
DSS helps in problem solving by facilitating: Retrieval of data, testing of alternative
solutions.

Features or characteristics of DSS

• Programmed vs non programmed decisions. DSS supports both types of models

and emphasis is on interactive ness.
• Satisfying behavior: Interactive and evolutionary nature.
• Behavioral model of decision making: There is adequate space for finding
solutions. Stimulates analysis.
• Decision making under stress: Preprogrammed models for use in crisis situations.
There is an iterative approach when enough time is available.
• Providing alternative approaches: It gives alternative procedures and adequate
guidance.

• Quality of decision making: There is a decision procedure checklist and it is for

assessing the quality of decisions.
• Different decision models for supporting different stages of decision making
process: Intelligence models are used for searching problems and opportunities.
Identifying and Analyzing models are used for finding the possible solutions.
Choice model helps in selecting best solutions, e.g. optimization model.

DSS provides the decision maker with, model base consisting of: set of general models,
set of specific models.

8) Explain the overview of MIS in

• Finance
• Marketing
• Personnel
• Production

Ans. Management information system

And
Human resource management
Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS, EHRMS), Human Resource
Information Systems (HRIS), HR Technology or also called HR modules, shape an
intersection in between human resource management (HRM) and information
technology. It merges HRM as a discipline and in particular its basic HR activities and
processes with the information technology field, whereas the programming of data
processing systems evolved into standardized routines and packages of enterprise
resource planning (ERP) software. On the whole, these ERP systems have their origin on
software that integrates information from different applications into one universal
database. The linkage of its financial and human resource modules through one database
is the most important distinction to the individually and proprietary developed
predecessors, which makes this software application both rigid and flexible.

Purpose:

The function of Human Resources departments is generally administrative and common

to all organizations. Organizations may have formalized selection, evaluation, and
payroll processes. Efficient and effective management of "Human Capital" has
progressed to an increasingly imperative and complex process. The HR function consists
of tracking existing employee data which traditionally includes personal histories, skills,
capabilities, accomplishments and salary. To reduce the manual workload of these
administrative activities, organizations began to electronically automate many of these
processes by introducing specialized Human Resource Management Systems. Due HR
executives rely on internal or external IT professionals to develop and maintain an
integrated HRMS. Before the "client-server" architecture evolved in the late 1980s, many
HR automation processes were relegated to mainframe computers that could handle large
amounts of data transactions. In consequence of the high capital investment necessary to
purchase or program proprietary software, these internally-developed HRMS were
limited to organizations that possessed a large amount of capital. The advent of client-
server, Application Service Provider, and Software as a Service or SaaS Human
Resource Management Systems enabled take increasingly higher administrative control
of such systems. Currently Human Resource Management Systems encompass:

1. Payrolls
2. Work Time
3. Benefits Administration
4. HR management Information system
5. Recruiting
6. Training/ Learning Management System LMS

The Payroll module automates the pay process by gathering data on employee time and
attendance, calculating various deductions and taxes, and generating periodic pay
cheques and employee tax reports. Data is generally fed from the human resources and
time keeping modules to calculate automatic deposit and manual cheque writing
capabilities. This module can encompass all employee-related transactions as well as
integrate with existing financial management systems.

The Work Time gathers standardized time and work related efforts. The most advanced
modules provide broad flexibility in data collection methods, labour distribution
capabilities and data analysis features. Cost analysis and efficiency metrics are the
primary functions.
The Benefits Administration module provides a system for organizations to administer
and track employee participation in benefits programs. These typically encompass,
insurance, compensation, profit sharing and retirement.

The HR management module is a component covering many other HR aspects from

application to retirement. The system records basic demographic and address data,
selection, training and development, capabilities and skills management, compensation
planning records and other related activities. Leading edge systems provide the ability to
"read" applications and enter relevant data to applicable database fields, notify employers
and provide position management and position control. Human resource management
function involves the recruitment, placement, evaluation, compensation and development
of the employees of an organisation. Initially, businesses used computer based
information system to:

• produce pay checks and payroll reports;

• maintain personnel records;
• Pursue Talent Management.

Online Recruiting has become one of the primary methods employed by HR departments
to garner potential candidates for available positions within an organization. Talent
Management systems typically encompass:

• analyzing personnel usage within an organization;

• identifying potential applicants;
• recruiting through company-facing listings;
• Recruiting through online recruiting sites or publications that market to both
recruiters and applicants.

The significant cost incurred in maintaining an organized recruitment effort, cross-

posting within and across general or industry-specific job boards and maintaining a
competitive exposure of availabilities has given rise to the development of a dedicated
Applicant Tracking System, or 'ATS', module.

The 'Training Module' provides a system for organizations to administer and track
employee training and development efforts. The system, normally called a Learning
Management System if a standalone product, allows HR to track education, qualifications
and skills of the employees, as well as outlining what training courses, books, CDs, web
based learning or materials are available to develop which skills. Courses can then be
offered in date specific sessions, with delegates and training resources being mapped and
managed within the same system.

Sophisticated LMS allow managers to approve training, budgets and calendars alongside
performance management and appraisal metrics.

Many organizations have gone beyond the traditional functions and developed human
resource management information systems, which support recruitment, selection; hiring,
job placement, performance appraisals, employee benefit analysis, health, safety and
security, while others integrate an outsourced Applicant Tracking System

Management information system

And
 marketing
An Executive Information System (EIS) is a type of management information system.In
an organization, marketing executives’ role is to create the future. Their main duty is
managing available marketing resources to create a more effective future. For this, they
need make judgments about risk and uncertainty of a project and its impact on company
in short term and long term. To assist marketing executives in making effective
marketing decisions, an EIS can be applied. EIS provides an approach to sales
forecasting, which can allow the market executive to compare sales forecast with past
sales. EIS also offers an approach to product price, which is found in venture analysis.
The market executive can evaluate pricing as related to competition along with the
relationship of product quality with price charged. In summary, EIS software package
enables marketing executives to manipulate the data by looking for trends, performing
audits of the sales data, and calculating totals, averages, changes, variances, or ratios. All
of these sales analysis functions help marketing executives to make final decisions.

Management information system

And
Production management
Operational management of production
The following figure illustrates in more detail the major types of information systems in
many organizations. This includes the following categories of operations and also
management information systems

Operations
Information Operational Support
systems

Transaction Process Automated

Processing Control Office
Systems Systems Systems

Transaction Process Office

Processing Control Communications

Operations information systems process data generated by and used in business

operations. Major subsystems provide the following outputs:
 A variety of information products for internal and external use result from the
processing of business transactions. This is accomplished by transaction
processing systems.
 Operational decisions that control physical processes are produced by process
control systems.
 Office communications are accomplished by automated office systems.
Operations information systems process data that is generated by business operations
(sales transactions, productions, production results, employee payroll, ect.) but do not
produce the kind of information that can best be used by management. Further processing
by a management information system is usually required. Figure 2 shows how a
manufacturing firm’s operations information systems are related to its basic physical
operations system.

The
Order
Purchasing Accounting operation
Processing al
Informati
on
Systems
of the
Production Production Inventory Firm
Planning Control Control irm
of the
Finishe
Raw
System
d ns
Materia Manufa cturing Product
Operatio
l Facility The
s
Suppliers Customers

Information system is supposed to capture and store data, analyze them and produce
relevant informational outputs. IS encompasses all processes and data-flows within the
company and it should minimize disharmony in cooperation of its individual parts.

Management information system

And
Finance
The finance department will have a number of concerns with regard to the design
and development of the system. These include:

• Many systems will be concerned with transaction processing and as

systems producing financial information. The Chief Accountant will
wish to ensure that the system has adequate controls.
• The finance department will also be concerned to ensure that financial
information is fit for purpose and is effective.
• The Chief Accountant has a responsibility to provide financial
information and advice and will be concerned at the design of
financial information and the criteria to be considered.

• The finance department may also make a direct contribution to

systems design through the use of spreadsheets and relational
databases.
• Also, information systems can be expensive. The Chief Accountant
will be concerned that new information systems developments provide
value-for-money.

• Control of the project management of the information systems

development.
 • Legal issues.

Financial Management Information System (FMIS)

FMIS System Overview

The Financial Management Information System (FMIS) is an operational system that

supplies the reports and data that are used for the audit of the Custodial Financial
Statements of the IRS by the General Accounting Office (GAO). A major objective of
the custodial Financial reporting system is to be continuously and accurately responsive
to regular and ad hoc requests for custodial financial reports.

FMIS is currently in the Control phase of the IRS CPIC process where it is continuously
monitored for cost, schedule, and project performance. The IRS ensures that operational
systems are executed in a disciplined, well-managed, and consistent manner through
timely oversight, quality control, and executive review.

To better understand the IRS compliance with provisions of the Chief Financial Officers
(CFO) Act and the system development environment, it is important to understand that
the IRS has two separate financial operations, which independently track the funds, and
result in six separate financial statements. One financial operation is Administrative and
accounts for the appropriated funds. The other is Custodial (FMIS) and tracks tax
collection.

The Administrative financial operations, information systems, and statements are similar
to those found in any large corporation. However, the Custodial financial operations,
information systems, and associated statements track tax revenues processed through the
lRS pipeline. The pipeline is the IRS' tax return processing channel that begins at initial
receipt of tax returns and remittances and tracks the information/funds through postings
on the Master Files, many large databases.

The Custodial Financial Accounting System is unique in complexity and scope. FMIS is
comprised of two key sub programs, Revenue and Refunds (R&R) and Unpaid
Assessments (UA). Each key component is described as follows:

Revenue and Refunds

This system is used to identify all of the detailed transactions that posted to the Individual
Master Files (IMF), Business Master Files (BMF), Individual Retirement Accounts File
(IRAF), and Non-Master Files (NMF) during the fiscal year. These detail transactions are
broken down into Revenue transactions, Refund transactions, Other Transactions that are
part of the fiscal year, and Other Transactions that are not part of the fiscal year. Once
these breakouts are done, revenue and refund reversal transactions are matched to the

transactions they reverse. Paper and electronic reports are generated and distributed to the
Office of the CFO and to GAO. The detailed files provide support for the amounts from
the Interim Revenue Accounting Controls System (IRACS). The files are also made
available to GAO for sampling and to validate the financial statements.

Unpaid Assessments
The objective of Unpaid Assessments is to continue to provide the users, Chief Financial
Officer (CFO), Research, Compliance, and GAO, with required program changes for
reporting, researching and auditing of the financial statements for debit balance and
frozen credit modules. The near term objectives are to support:

Fiscal Year 2003 Interim Audit Changes 6-03

Fiscal Year 2003 Fiscal Year End (FYE) Audit Changes 10-03
Filing Season 2003 Changes 1-03
Provide an Unpaid Assessment data feed to CAP 11/03

The system is used to:

* Prepare the IRS Financial Statements and support the GAO financial audit
* Produce reports for trending on operational impact
* Feed the Business Performance Management System (BPMS)
* Populate the Compliance Data Warehouse (CDW)
* Form the basis for the data feeds to the Custodial Accounting Project (CAP)
* Extract assessments to be used for the Federal Payment Levy Program (FPLP)
* Track and Report Modules having credit balances as part of the frozen credit process.

9) Explain what is integrated system and functional system ?

Ans. Types of systems:

Functional system : The production, sales, purchase and finance systems where several
transactions and stored data is used to produce certain information. The focus is on the
operations management.

Integrated system : More than one system is processed together to produce an updated
status and business results where the systems are networked and interfaced. The main
focus is on process management across the business functions.