Question

Create short flowcharts for each of the following examples:

1. Data gathered from magnetic disk is displayed on a computer screen and printed out on a report

2. Manually updating the sales journal using the sales invoices

3. Using the employee pay detail report to manually prepare employee payroll checks. The completed payroll checks are then sent to the employees

4. Data from a source document is manually copied into a ledger then stamped to indicate is has been processed. Afterwards, the stamped document is filed in alphabetical order.

5. Customer sales orders are received into the system and processed electronically, then the sales order data is saved to a database. The sales order data is then pulled from the database and used to prepare three copies of the monthly sales report.

Answer 1

1. Processing transactions stored on magnetic tape to update a master file stored on magnetic tape

reading data from a magnetic disk into the computer to be printed on a report

B.      manually sorting and filing invoices numerically

C.      enter employee hours recorded on time cards in the payroll transaction file maintained on disk and update wage data maintained on the payroll master file