John McAlister and Joanne Kelter are two legal practitioners having a legal practice in partnership. They began their partnership practice in 2018. For the financial years ending 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020, their turnover was $800,000 and $2.5 million, respectively. For the financial year ended in 30 June 2021, their turnover was $3.4 million. They have built personal brand names in their fields of practice and winning cases in favour of client outcomes. They expected their practice turnover to grow and are searching for two other legal practitioners from criminal law and property law to join their practice as partners. The legal practice is also considering creating an online advisory legal dashboard to charge fees for client advice on an electronic commerce dashboard. Clients would share their relevant documents with legal practitioners. John and Joanne do not know how they would do it.

their head office is in Darwin, and they practice from Darwin. They have branches in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. John McAlister practices in the family law area, and Joanne Kelter is involved with civil law cases. They accept Queensland, Victoria, south Australia, and Northern Territory matters and travel to courts and client visits. They also have a Human Resources officer based in Melbourne and the account officer based in Brisbane.

the accounts officer make the billings for clients based on the time billing information received. Clients are required to make electronic transfers to the nominated bank account on the invoice. The account officer manages account receivable. The account officer words on Monday and Tuesday of the week.

Human Resources officer (HRO) is responsible for hiring casual staff members, such as law clerks and legal secretaries. The HRO negotiates the pay rate with the candidates and informs the partners. The HRO shares resume with the partners by email and over the phone by texting them. The HRO stores the information on a Microsoft Excel file stored on the laptop held by HRO. HRO works half day of Wednesday of the week.

currently, the legal practice uses their Email accounts to communicate information by email. Personal mobiles are the standard mode of telecommunication among staff in the entity.

presently, the legal practice uses MYOB as their accounting system but considers SAP or Oracle as an alternative system to replace MYOB. They seek your advice on replacing the current MYOB with SAP, Oracle, or any other information system.

Required:

a. Evaluate the accounting processes followed in the legal practice for (i) effective operation , (ii) efficient operation,(iii) security of information,(iv) input validity,(v) input completeness,(vi) input accuracy.

b. Evaluate the Human Resources processes followed in the legal practice for (i) effective operation , (ii) efficient operation,(iii) security of information,(iv) input validity,(v) input completeness,(vi) input accuracy.

c. Identify the context level diagram items for the current operations. You do not have to draw the diagram, provide reasons for your choice.

d. Identity the level zero diagram items in the context diagram for the current operations. You do not have to draw the diagram, provide reasons for your choice.

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Answer A1i The accounting processes followed in the legal practice are effective for operation as they are able to generate invoices and manage accoun... View the full answer