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?Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems.?-Choice ?This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations.?-Government Finance Review This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations. -Government Finance Review Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems. -Choice

Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems. -Choice This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations. -Government Finance Review ?This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations.?-Government Finance Review ?Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems.?-Choice

?Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems.?-Choice

Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems. -Choice This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations. -Government Finance Review ?Thierauf surveys the design, operation, and evaluation of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in finance and accounting applications. The volume begins with a list of standardized abbreviations. The study is divided into four sections: A Framework for Developing Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Hardware and Software for Electronic Data Interchange Systems; Development of Electronic Data Interchange Systems; and Typical Applications of Electronic Data Interchange Systems. Chapters are written in a succinct style, and each begins with a description of the issues to be covered and a topic outline. Chapter notes; extensive bibliography at each section's end. Some familiarity with the subject matter is necessary. This book would be useful to practitioners as well as to upper-division and graduate students interested in management information systems.?-Choice ?This book documents the next phase of the continuing revolution in financial communications. Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides an environment wherein the finance, accounting and purchasing functions of an organization are electronically linked in 'real-time, ' allowing instant access to management information. Futhermore, this environment also can be linked to that of vendors, bringing buyers and sellers together in a potentially global electronic marketplace. The book presents discussions of the relationship of EDI to current management information systems and paper methods, the fundamentals of national and international electronic communications, and the necessary hardware and software. Also included are examples of the development and operation of EDI in finance, accounting, strategic planning and banking operations.?-Government Finance Review

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ROBERT J. THIERAUF is Professor of Information and Decision Sciences at Xavier University and a certified public accountant. He is the author of twenty-three previous texts, including Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users (Quorum, 1989), and New Directions in MIS Management (Quorum, 1988).

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