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Week 1 - DQ 1
Choose one of the organizational departments of a business: accounting, finance, HR,
or otherwise. What is the role of this department? What type(s) of information does the
department need? How does the department use that information?
The role of an accounting department is to help an organization to run efficiently, to keep records
accurately, and to pay taxes in a timely manner. The accounting department must offer budget
analysis, information technology consulting, limited legal advices, and investment planning. The
accounting department must also be able to analyze and report financial information to
individual clients, companies, and government (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008).
Banks statements, invoices from suppliers, billing to customers, employee earnings records
are a few examples of source documents that can be collected by an accounting department
and processed by its accounting information systems. Source documents can be paper
although electronic files and web communication are growing at fast pace. Nowadays, we
often hear about paperless systems. Source documents are crucial to accounting
information system (Larson, Wild, & Chiappetta, 2005, p. 264).
An accounting department uses the above information by putting them in the form of
reports. Reports provide valuable information to upper management for making control and
planning decisions (i.e. find out if there is enough money to make an investment or not).
Furthermore, information provided by an accounting department helps external users to
decide to invest in or lend money to a company.

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Week 1 - DQ 1 Choose one of the organizational departments of a business: accounting, finance, HR, or otherwise. What is the role of this department? What type(s) of information does the department need? How does the department use that information? The role of an accounting department is to help an organization to run efficiently, to keep records accurately, and to pay taxes in a timely manner. The accounting department must offer budget analysis, information technology consulting, limited legal advices, and investment planning. The accounting department must also be able to analyze and repo ...
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