Wild, Shaw, Chiappetta, FAP 23e Solutions Manual: Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Accounting Information Systems
QUESTIONS
1. The five components of an accounting system are: source documents, input
devices, information processors, information storage, and output devices.
2. Source documents contain data about business transactions or events that are put
3. The five fundamental principles of accounting information systems are: (a) control
4. An input device is used to transfer data from source documents to the information
5. Data stored “off-line” are not immediately available to the information processor(s),
6. Output devices provide the means by which information is taken from the
accounting system and made available for use.
9. The double posting does not cause the trial balance to be out of balance because
10. When copies of the sales invoices are used as a sales journal, each invoice total is
posted to the proper customer account in the subsidiary Accounts Receivable