Abstracts of Recent Accounting Information Systems Dissertations.

The article presents abstracts of various articles related to accounting information systems. The abstract "Toward an Improved Distribution Accounting Information System: An Entity-Relationship Data Modeling Approach," by Howard Mackay Armitage utilizes a structured analysis approach to obtaining user requirements and a data model, the Entity-Relationship Model, to develop an integrated conceptual information schema in a distribution setting. The study "Impact of Accounting Information Systems in Decision Processes," by Douglas William Ryan demonstrates that the information feedback systems can be designed to aid specific phases of the decision process. The decision context was a business decision problem, which was divisible into the decision phases of predicting an economic environment and making operating decisions in that environment. The study "The Effects of Changes of Informational Feedback On Decisions Made in an Automatic Ordering System," by Phyllis Locke Thomas investigates the effects of changes of information in a more realistic situation--an inventory control system.