QUESTION 3
You are the Chief Marketing Officer of Vegas Girl’s Pizza involved
Governance team to provide your opinion and solutions for the following questions:
Consider the following issues related to the revenues processes at Vegas Girl’s Pizza.
As Peter Greyton reflects on his meeting with Jim Saxton and Elaine Black, he considers where the company has been and where it is heading, and ponders the current issues regarding Vegas Girl’s Pizza accounting information systems and its ability to take and record sales. He is concerned about the limitations of the current accounting information system. Are internal controls strong enough? Would a new, integrated IT system yield improvements? As he contemplates the integration of the POS systems at the restaurant locations with the GL software at the home office, he wonders about the requirements for developing and implementing such a system, and how to best utilize the system to support Vegas Girl’s Pizza plans for growth. Peter realizes that his ability to address these issues will be critical not only to the success of the company, but also to his career.
Required:
1. Discuss whether Vegas Girl’s Pizza Internet order activities can be termed as ecommerce.
2. Given the privacy practices, describe the kind of customer data that Vegas Girl’s Pizza could reasonably collect and store, and also describe some data that Vegas
Girl’s Pizza should not collect and store. Explain the reasons for these differences.
3. Describe the internal controls related to Internet orders that Vegas Girl’s Pizza should have in place.
4. Briefly describe the differences in Vegas Girl’s Pizza 3 order entry systems (instore, telephone, and Internet). For each method, specifically identify the employees needed and describe the tasks performed by these employees.
5. Draw 3 process maps of the ordering and sales processes at Vegas Girl’s Pizza. One process map should depict in-store sales, second map should depict phone orders, and the third map should depict on-line orders.
From the descriptions of Vegas Girl’s Pizza various revenue and collection processes, answer the following questions regarding internal controls:
6) Separately identify at least one internal control strength and/or weakness for each of the 3 ordering systems (in-store, telephone, and Internet).
7) What is the control purpose of the drop-down boxes in the Internet ordering system?
QUESTION 4
You are the Chief Information Officer of Vegas Girl’s Pizza involved
Governance team to provide your opinion and solutions for the following questions:
Required:
1. Describe the purpose of a data warehouse and describe how Anheuser-Busch uses data warehousing.
2. Describe the purpose and use of data mining and describe how Anheuser-Busch uses data mining.
3. Describe how data warehousing and data mining can facilitate reporting and analysis at Vegas Girl’s Pizza.
Now assume that you as part of Vegas Girl’s Pizza management you wish to upgrade its accounting software to an ERP system.
To answer some of the questions here, you may have to do research about ERP systems on the Internet.
4. What advantages could Vegas Girl’s Pizza expect by upgrading to an ERP system?
5. As Vegas Girl’s Pizza considers modules to purchase, which four or five modules do you believe would be most critical? Why?
6. Which method of implementation of an ERP system do you suggest for Vegas Girl’s Pizza? Why?
7. Recommend two or three ERP systems that would be appropriate for Vegas Girl’s Pizza. be specific with respect to the name of the ERP software system and the provider company. When making these recommendations consider the size of Vegas Girl’s Pizza and, therefore, what it might be able to afford.
