Accounting information system deals with financial transactions. Financial transactions are the transactions that affect the assets, liabilities and the owners’ equity. Analyzing financial statements doesn’t affect the financial situation of the business so it cannot be a transaction for accounting information system.

Office automation systems make routine office decisions faster and more efficient. E-mail, fax, electronic calendars, teleconferencing systems are office automation system types that enhance the communication and collaboration among the office workers. The other options are specialized processing system types that support different decision processes and business practices.

Bill of materials shows the list of the materials to be used in production.

The impact of EIS on the job performances of the executive decision makers might also be outlined as follows.
• Better communication,
• Exploring capability in detecting historic trends,
• Improved effectiveness and efficiency,
• Fewer and shorter meetings,
• Improved decision-making,
• Betterment of planning and control.

Thereofre, the correct option is A.

Apart from financial reporting system, all of the others have a one-way relationship with the General Ledger System (GLS). Yet financial reporting system both affects and is affected by GLS.

Accoridng to the  Database Records of a Sales Transaction, the commision rate is listed in tblPersonnel and tblPersonnel_1. Thereofre, the correct option is A.

Self-service allows employees to handle many different human resources-related and job-related tasks that would otherwise need to be completed by human resources personnel or management. Employee self-service can help individuals to monitor and re-enter their personnel information which in turn enable to save labor hours and increase efficiency.

e-manufacturing integrates information and decision making among data flow, information flow and cash flow. It is a business strategy and a core competency for companies to compete in this highly competitive markets

Communication mix information includes past data on the effects of advertising campaigns, sponsorships, direct mail programmes or exhibitions, levels of investments on marketing communications and the effect on sales of increases or decreases. Such information can act as a guide to the likely effectiveness of future communication investment plans.

Finance information system supports the finance managers about the decisions on financing the assets of the business, controlling them and auditing them. Besides finding financial resources; using these resources efficiently and effectively and auditing these resources, finance information system focuses on cash management, portfolio management, capital budgeting financial forecasting and planning. Functions of finance information systems are capital budgeting, cash management, credit management, financial analysis, financial forecasting, and profit planning.

Regional sales: Statistics are kept to measure the progress and competence of a salesperson. Often sales force might work with commissions and premiums paid on sales. Territorial statistics are kept to measure the degree of market penetration too.

The last phase of SDLC is operation and maintenance. This is the longest phase at which the system is setup and starts to operate. After operations starts, users may notice some operative problems, some problems may emerge that were not recognized in the early phases of the SDLC, or users may demand some improvements. For this purpose, developers support the system and update the system according to the demands of the users or changes in the operation processes.

the word “unadjusted” has a specific meaning for accounting. It shows that, the closing entries have not been made yet.

Recurrent information is information that is provided on a periodic basis from periodic reports. Market or customer shares, advertisement watch rates, product or service ratings, price fluctuations, exchange rates, customer complaints on product basis are some examples of this kind of information that managers receive on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. Monitoring information is derived from the regular scanning of certain sources. For example, a marketing manager may desire a summary of articles on competition for a specific industry or may want to learn about new product launches. Market trends, life style changes are good examples of monitored information.

The most important task of a manager is to make decisions. Therefore, human decisionmaking process may be considered as a blend of the intelligence, educational background, experience, intuition, judgment, as well as personality and the cultural background of the decision maker. This blend is usually called the profile of the decision maker. Unfortunately, there is no secret formula for a successful manager’s profile. What is more important than the profile of a decision maker is to follow the steps of the scientific decision making.
They are as presented by Simon:
1. Define or identify the problem or the opportunity
2. Built an appropriate representation of the problem, that is, a model
3. Search for best or better feasible solutions to the problem by using the model
4. Choose a superior solution to the problem.

Thereofre, the correct option is D

Every company keeps a record of its total sales over specific periods e.g. daily, weekly, monthly. Sales volume over time is the quantity or number of goods or services sold in a specific time period. Such information enables seasonal variations to be identified, and inflation cost adjustments can be taken into consideration.

The term of Marketing Information Systems (MKIS) is originated in the 1960s for applying data processing technologies to marketing-specific decisions.

Data collecting stage is about gathering problem specific data. This stage has two important decision aspects: sample design and data collection forms. Sample design provides a description of the population to be studied and how it will be defined. For example, if a pet food producer wants to investigate buying habits of its customers, the ones who do not have a pet are needed to be eliminated from the sampling frame.

The term production can be defined as transformation of tangible and intangible inputs into goods or services. It can be explained elaborately as the transformation or conversion of a set of inputs, such as raw materials, labor, knowledge, into one or more outputs such as tables, cars, banking services.