Accounting Information Systems
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Author: Ulric J. Gelinas, Richard B. Dull, Patrick Wheeler, Mary Callahan Hill
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 7DQ
An enterprise system supports a business process by:
- a. Facilitating the functioning of the business process.
- b. Providing records that business events have occurred.
- c. Storing data for decision making.
Describe how the enterprise system depicted in Figure 10.11 (pg. 382) provides support in these three areas.
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