Tutorial 3 question

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  • Each week the factory time clerk completes employee time cards and sends them to the payroll department.
  • The payroll clerk uses the cards and information from the Employee Payroll Records and the Tax-Rate Records to calculate each employee’s weekly pay.
  • The clerk prepares the payroll cheques and cheque list, completes the payroll register and updates the Employees Payroll Records.
  • The clerk completes the Payroll Summary and sends it to the Cash Disbursements department with the payroll cheques and cheque list.
  • The Cash Disbursements department reconciles the documents and records the payroll totals in the Cash Disbursements Journal.
  • The cheques and cheque list are sent to the Treasurer who reviews them and signs the cheques and then forwards them to the cashier for disbursement.
  • Employees sign for their cheques when they collect their pay from the cashier.
Identify implied files.
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All documents must have a home.




Identify named files.
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All account records are treated as files




Identify the entity.
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Entities only send/receive data; they do not do any information processing.


Identify the flows to and from this entity

Group info processing activities.
Name the groups.
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Process names should be short and provide general descriptions for all activities in the group.

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Identify info processing activities.











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Name the data flows between your processes:
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Flow names should be short and select data that is being transferred



Dr Sheila Woodgate
© The University of Auckland 2002