Accounting Information Systems:
A Database Approach

S. Michael Groomer, Ph.D., CPA, CISA
Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems
Indiana University

and

Uday S. Murthy, Ph.D., ACA
Associate Professor of Accounting & Ljungdahl Fellow
Texas A & M University

Executive Summary

Accounting Information Systems: A Database Approach by Uday S. Murthy and S. Michael Groomer is the first electronic textbook in business. This state of the art accounting information systems textbook presents systems concepts, technology, and the design and development of enterprise wide systems using entity-relationship modeling and relational databases. The book is published exclusively on the World Wide Web by CyberText Publishing, Inc., a company founded by Groomer and Murthy. This company is a high tech start-up firm that uses the World Wide Web as the sole channel to deliver products to customers and receive payment for them. Given the nature of the subject matter, which is technologically rich, this book is revised prior to the beginning of each semester. In addition, the Murthy & Groomer online AIS book offers an on-line quizzing system and a number of web-based instructor tools for class management. In its second year of existence, this book has been adopted at over thirty colleges and universities worldwide (including universities in Canada, Hong Kong, and Japan). In recognition of their work in behalf of this endeavor, Groomer and Murthy received the 1998 Innovative User of Technology Award from the Indiana CPA Society.

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