Team Project Case Study Outline Think about companies that you work with and a key business process that feeds the accounting information system (AIS) such as (sales / collection (order to cash), acquisition / payment (purchase to pay), human resources (hire to paycheck), or conversion (such as the production of finished goods) or an accounting process such as consolidations, month-end or year-end closing, cost accounting, etc. Using any company of your choice either one that uses SAP R/3 or some other enterprise system (such as Oracle, PeopleSoft or Baan) or one that could possibly benefit from an enterprise resource planning / enterprise system, e-Business concepts, and/or additional focus on internal control.

2. ANALYSIS STAGE Select one key business process that feeds accounting or a key accounting process (such as month-end close, consolidations, cost center accounting processes) that has a priority information systems need in the company and complete the following: a. Reiterate briefly why this business process has a priority. Talk about the business process (i.e., provide a narrative). Give the detailed accounting transactions that occur in this business process along with the account coding / chart of accounts coding related to these entries CRITICAL FOR THIS SECTION The team members who do not work for this organization should compile interview questions as a team and interview the student who does work for the company in focus and write up the narrative and have the student who does work for the company review the narrative for accuracy. If one of the teammembers is going to be interviewing someone else in their organization or another organization, the interview questions should be compiled as a team . ALL team members must read and understand the narrative and MUST participate in this part as it drives much of the paper this is a good section to try to do first, once the team project company and topic are determined. b. Complete a Business Model of the process. Make sure to include the entity attributes and key attribute. Flowchart the process and use other methods from this chapter to document the specific business process. c. Complete a Control Matrix of the process to be used in conjunction with the flowchart created. Explain the present and missing controls in detail. d. Explain any systems or control weaknesses currently in the business process under evaluation. This will include any higher level controls that are not designated on the flowchart and can recap the concerns from the control matrix. e. Assess what information systems (business process and accounting information systems) are being used and what processes methods are being used (ERP, enterprise systems, e-Business applications, general ledger and chart of account coding, financial and business reporting, etc) and how they support the process and/or could be improved. Discuss the flow to accounting information systems from this business process (the accounting impact of this process). How is information compiled, distributed, and used throughout the company both internally and externally.