This document outlines the course content for a management information systems course for Finias Phinias Moyo. It covers two main topics: 1) Transaction processing systems, including sales, purchasing, inventory, and payroll cycles as well as financial accounting. 2) Decision support systems, such as financial planning, capital budgeting, financial ratios, return/risk analysis, capital structure, asset management, marketing, pricing, promotion, distribution strategy, research methods, and control information systems.

1. MANAGEMENTINFORMATIONSYSTEMS
THIS IS THE COURSECONTENT OUTCOMEFOR FINIAS PHINIAS MOYO
1] TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS [ANALYSES/DESIGN]
[A] SALES,PURCHASE,INVENTORY,PAYROLL CYCLES
[i] Orderprocessing[Iii] Credit sales [iv] Cash sales[v] Credit rating
INVENTORY[[i] Receiving[ii]despatching[iii]marking[iv]picking[v]accesscontrol [vi]payroll
[B] FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING;[GAAP]
ACCOUNT ING ANALYSIS AND RECORDING
PRE-ADJUSTMENT TRIAL BALANCE
POST-ADJUSTMENT TRIAL BALANCE
CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS
PROFIT OR LOSS ACCOUNTS
PREPARATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
[i] Balance sheet [ii] Incomestatement [iii] Changes to Equity [iv] Notes [v] Cash flow statement
2 ]DECISIONSUPPORTSYSTEMS
[A] FINANCIAL PLANNING
PRO-FORMA STATEMENT
COMMON-SIZE STATEMENT
COMMON-BASE YEAR STATEMENT
COMBINED COMMON AND BASE YEAR
SENSITIVITY ; SCENARIO ; SIMILATION ANALYSIS
RETETION RATIO
CASH; ACCOUNTING; FINANCIAL BREAKEVEN ANALYSIS
TAX RATES
[B]CAPITAL BUDGETING:
PAY BACK RULE
DISCOUNT CASH FLOW
INTERNAL RATE RETURN
ACCOUNTING RATE OF RETURN
PROFITABILITY INDEX
[C] FINANCIAL RARIOS
RETURN ON EQUITY
DEBT/EQUITY RATIO
ASSET TURNOVER RATIO
LIQUIDITY RATIO
SOLVANCY

2. [D] RETURN/RISK[STATISTICS]
EXPECTED VALUE
VARIANCE
STANDARD DEVIATION
[E]CAPITAL STRUCTURE & COST
EQUITY/DEBT
INTEREST RATES
TIME VALUE OF MONEY
STANDARD COSTING
[F]ASSET MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT [i] ABC Technique; Items are grouped and to their value[ ii] Economic Order Quantity ; Q= the squareroot
of 2 X Annual Sales(demand) X Fixed procurement over carryingcosts
CASH MANAGEMENT ; cash handlingprocedure
CREDIT MANAGEMENT; discountpolicy [ii]valueadded tax
[G] MARKETING PRODUCT; [i] product lifecircle[BCG][ii] function[iii] brand [iv]package[v]quality [vi]price etc
PRICE[i] skimming[ii] penetration [iii] mark-ups[iv] production-cost[v] demand and supply [vii]discountpolicy etc
PROMOTION;[i]advertisements ,[ii]shows [iii] sponserships [iv] discountpolicy[v] billboards
PLACE [i]distribution [ii] retailers [ii] middle-man [iii] mult–channels etc
STRATEGY
REASECH METHODS
CONTROL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
[i]GENERAL CONTROLS
[II] ACCESS CONTROLS
[III] HARDWARE CONTROLS
[IV] SYSTEM SOFTWARE CONTROLS
[v] PROGRAMME CHANGE CONTROLS
[V] APPLICATION CONTROLS
[VI] ADMINSTRATION CONTROLS