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Financial Information Systems

        An introduction
What is a Management Information
            system?
A planned system for the


Collection     Processing         Storage



      Dissemination    evaluate



      of data in the form of
          information
Financial management systems help
        us manage finances
The Collection of information


       Maintaining accounts
       manually
       • Tedious and prone to
         mistakes, multiple entries to
         many books
Accounting systems make it
automatic




  Ledger and other books gets
  updated along with the Journal
  • Ease and convenience


  Information available easily
Each revenue or expense
                                       transaction processed
                                      within FIS will include a
                                         code supplied from
                                     each of these components
                                         and will answer the
                                         following questions



1. What revenue or expense activity occurred?

2. What is the source of funding? How much funding is
available for spending?

3. Which department/project incurred the activity?
Generating reports is easy
An audit can be done with ease
Forecasting can be done based on
         previous trends
Management of funds




Information used to identify the source of funds and control overall spending. If
      insufficient funds are available the system will not release payment
The processing of an invoice in an
  accounts payable department
Invoice provided by the vendor entered into system and hence in the database
When goods are received an entry is made in the system and a receipt issued
Before payment the system matches the receipt with the invoice and a mail is se
         to the accounts payable manager to authorizes release of funds
Personal financial management
            software
Another example of a FIS
Questions?

Financial Information Systems