Computer Information System

Computer Information System Brief

Irina Bosovik

University of Phoenix

ACC 542: Accounting Information Systems

August 23, 2010

Computer Information System Brief

First of all, we would like to thank you for the opportunity to perform research and provide valuable information for your company. Your company was able to grow since its foundation in 1998 and we would like to provide some analysis of the computer systems that are available for you in order to integrate your business needs and improve accounting operations you have in place. Following report will examine company’s current management strategy as well as changes in technology and how this can create new opportunities for the business.

The company currently uses information technology to keep track of customer purchases. The cash registers (or point-of-sale units, as they often referred to) that are used in each store at checkout collect sales data. The registers record all items, quantities, prices, taxes and totals for all daily sales transactions (Apollo Group, Inc, 2005). This allows Kudler to keep track of the number of items sold to help keep truck of the inventory while forecasting future ordering.

According to company’s site, Kudler keeps a database with several tables containing customer information. “The Customer Table contains demographic data for each of Kudler’s customers. The data in this table is used to access the name and address of customers for order processing and for special mailings for anniversaries and/or birth dates, etc” (Apollo Group, Inc, 2005).

Let us look at the opportunities and practices that are currently available and could be adopted by the company. Competitive intelligence is the process of monitoring the activities, performance, pricing strategies, advertisements, websites, and any information available regarding a company’s competitor (Turban, Rainer and Potter, 2003, pg 610). Kathy Kudler does this by “monitoring what other gourmet foods stores...