ACCT503 Accounting Systems and Analytics

Step 1: Initiation and planning (part of the written document
Given the description of the U-DBMS, you are to identify two pieces of information: one financial and one non-financial. For each of the information identified, you are to clearly identify who might be interested in them and why.
Step 2: Requirement analysis (part of the written document)
Given the needs described in Step 1, identify what the system requires to collect. Each requirement should closely tie to the information needs identified in Step 1.
Step 3: Design (part of the written document)
Given the needs you identified in Step 1, you are to design the DBMS accordingly. In this design, you are to:
1.    Include a flowchart to show the flow of documents.
2.    Describe the tables used (not less than three tables). Three tables will be sufficient.
3.    Identify the forms (for what purpose) and reports (for what purpose)
4.    Identify two risks and two related controls in place
Step 4: Build (not part of the written document)
Using MS Access, you are to build a DBMS incorporating your design in Step 2. It is highly advisable that you use MS Access.
Step 5: Testing the system (part of the written document)
Describe how you tested the system you developed.
Step 6: Implementation (not part of the written document)
You are to enter data about ten students into the system. You are to include reports relating to the information needs identified in Step 1.
Step 7: Maintenance (part of the written document)
Describe the kind of maintenance that you will undertake.
Conclusion
You are to identify and describe one additional feature of the system that you recommend being incorporated into the system and why.
Writing
Writing style befitting of tertiary education.