Five years ago, Saleh Al Harthy started business with Sadaf Al Yahyai as his partner. S&S sells appliances and consumer electronics. Adil Al Rawahi is Accountant of the company. At the beginning, they had to address required business processes and how they would be carried out. After 5 years, S&S has become very successful and operates five stores and a popular website. Adil Al Rawahi believes that it is time to upgrade S&S’s accounting information system (AIS) so that Sadaf and Saleh can easily access the information they need to run their business. Most new AISs are basedon a relational database. He prepared a brief report that addresses various questions about database, its importance and file type used in a database. Now S&S AIS system has grown a lot. They are using ERP, database and cloud computing etc. Saleh and Sadaf are worried about frauds related to computers. They want to have a system to prevent and detect computer fraud and abuse. Saleh is upset because several production runs were delayed at the Sohar plant because components that S&S’s inventory records indicated as being in stock actually were not on hand. Q1. What business processes are needed, and how should they be carried out?

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Five years ago, Saleh Al Harthy started business with Sadaf Al Yahyai as his partner. S&S sells
appliances and consumer electronics. Adil Al Rawahi is Accountant of the company. At the beginning,
they had to address required business processes and how they would be carried out.
After 5 years, S&S has become very successful and operates five stores and a popular website. Adil
Al Rawahi believes that it is time to upgrade S&S’s accounting information system (AIS) so that Sadaf
and Saleh can easily access the information they need to run their business. Most new AISs are basedon a relational database. He prepared a brief report that addresses various questions about
database, its importance and file type used in a database.
Now S&S AIS system has grown a lot. They are using ERP, database and cloud computing etc. Saleh
and Sadaf are worried about frauds related to computers. They want to have a system to prevent
and detect computer fraud and abuse.
Saleh is upset because several production runs were delayed at the Sohar plant because components
that S&S’s inventory records indicated as being in stock actually were not on hand.
Q1. What business processes are needed, and how should they be carried out?

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