You Have Been Hired as a Consultant to Make Recommendations

question 55

Essay

You have been hired as a consultant to make recommendations for Smarty's,a healthy fast-food chain that is undergoing major expansion and is in need of a supply chain planning system.They are evaluating two commercially available software packages.What systems evaluation model will help them assess and compare the two packages? How does this model work?

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Definitions:

Adjusting Entries

Entries recorded in the journals at the close of an accounting period to distribute income and expenditures to the period they actually took place.

Bank Reconciliation

Bank reconciliation is the process of matching the balances in an entity's accounting records for a cash account to the corresponding information on a bank statement.

NSF Check

A check that is not honored by a bank due to insufficient funds in the account of the person who wrote it; also known as a bounced check.

Bank Service Charge

Fees charged by banks for various services such as account maintenance, transactions, or overdrafts.