Managing Information: Core Management

Topics Covered

The authors focus on the following topics:

Information Systems

• Contribution of IS/IT to organisations
• Systems concepts and attributes
• Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS
• Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP
• Software application for HR and other areas
• Legislation and Security

Finance

• Sources and application of funds
• Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets
• Interpretation of accounts - management ratios
• Costing and budgeting

Statistics

• Sources and uses of statistics
• Presentation of statistics
• Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests
• Use of current software for computation of statistics