Accounting Information Systems (AISs) delivers unprecedented coverage of these types of financial systems. The text examines how developments in IT affect business processes and controls, the effect of recent regulatory developments on the design and operation of AISs, and how you can use AISs to add value to an organization.

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Bestselling Programming Tutorial and Reference Completely Rewritten for the New C++11 Standard Fully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today's best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its standard library to write efficient, readable, and powerful code. C++ Primer, Fifth Edition, in...

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