DIANA BEDWARD / JOHN STREDWICK
The authors focus on the following topics: Information Systems *Contribution of IS/IT to organisations *Systems concepts and attributes *Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS *Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP *Software application for HR and other areas *Legislation and Security Finance *Sources and application of funds *Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets *Interpretation of accounts - management ratios *Costing and budgeting Statistics *Sources and uses of statistics *Presentation of statistics *Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests *Use of current software for computation of statistics
