Class 11 Accountancy - Chapter Applications of Computers in Accounting NCERT Solutions | State the various essential features of

State the relationship between information and decision.

Explain, using examples, the relationship between the organisational MIS and the other functional information system in an organisation. Describe how AIS receives and provides information to other functional MIS.

List the distinctive advantages of a computer system over a manual system.

Draw block diagram showing the main components of a computer.

Describe the various elements of a computer system and explain the distinctive features of a computer system and manual system.

‘An organisation is a collection of interdependent decision-making units that exists to pursue organisational objectives’. In the light of this statement, explain the relationship between information and decisions. Also explain the role of the Transaction Processing System in facilitating the decision-making process in business organisations.

Fill in the correct words :

1. The user oriented programmes designed and developed for performing certain specific tasks are called as ...........
2. Language syntax is checked by software called as ...........
3. The people who write programmes to implement the data processing system design are called as ...........
4. ........... is the brain of the computer.
5. ........... and ........... are two of the important requirements of an accounting report.
6. An example of responsibility report is ...........

What is Accounting Information System?

Name three components of a Transaction Processing System.

State the different elements of a computer system.

Name any two types of commonly used negotiable instruments.

Why is it necessary to record the adjusting entries in the preparation of final accounts?

State the meaning of incomplete records?

What is ‘Depreciation’?

Briefly state how the cash book is both journal and a ledger.

State the meaning of a trial balance?

State the four basic requirements of a database applications.

Define accounting.

Why is it necessary for accountants to assume that business entity will remain a going concern?

State the need for the preparation of bank reconciliation statement?

Should a transaction be first recorded in a journal or ledger? Why?

Giving examples, explain each of the following accounting terms:
* Fixed assets              * Revenue              * Expenses
* Gain                           * Profit                    * Capital
* Short-term liabilities

What are special purpose books?

Name and explain different types of reserves in detail.

What is meant by closing stock? Show its treatment in final accounts?

Complete the following sentences with appropriate words:
(a) Information in financial reports is based on .....................
(b) Internal users are the ..................... of the business entity.
(c) A ..................... would most likely use an entities financial report to determine whether or not the business entity is eligible for a loan.
(d) The Internet has assisted in decreasing the ..................... in issuing financial reports to users.
(e) ..................... users are groups outside the business entity, who uses the information to make decisions about the business entity.
(f) Information is said to be relevent if it is ......................
(g) The process of accounting starts with ............ and ends with ............
(h) Accounting measures the business transactions in terms of ............ units.
(i) Identified and measured economic events should be recording in ............ order.

What kinds of errors would cause differences in the trial balance. Also list examples that would not be revealed by a trial balance?

Use of common unit of measurement and common format of reporting promotes;
a. Comparability
b. Understandability
c. Relevance
d. Reliability

Which is the last step of accounting as a process of information?
a. Recording of data in the books of accounts
b. Preparation of summaries in the form of financial statements
c. Communication of information
d. Analysis and interpretation of information

Briefly explain the statement ‘wrongly debited by the bank’ with the help of an example.