"The Vest Pocket Guide to Information Technology, Second Edition" is a handy pocket problem-solver designed to provide you with the quickest route to a solution. Practical, reader-friendly, and thoroughly illustrated, this updated handbook provides complete guidance for the complex, ever-changing world of IT to help you quickly pinpoint what you need to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. Written by two all-time bestselling accounting and finance authors, Jae Shim and Joel Siegel, this thoroughly updated second edition includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports to help you avoid and resolve any and all IT dilemmas.
A must-read for business professionals, financial managers and consultants, production and operation managers, accountants, COOs, CFOs, and CEOs, this handy guide helps you: select the best hardware for particular application needs; strategically use IT systems; use the best software in planning and control; select Sarbanes-Oxley compliance software; prevent fraud through computerized security; effectively apply Management Information Systems (MIS); use online databases to make business decisions; use a decision support system (DSS) and an executive information system (EIS) to improve the quality of analysis, evaluation, and decision making; understand emerging trends and developments in information technology; harness marketing information systems to improve sales planning, sales forecasting, market research, and advertising; evaluate and manage an IT project. Your professional success depends on keeping abreast of the latest thinking and applications in information technology. "The Vest Pocket Guide to Information Technology, Second Edition" gives you all the information you need to make optimum decisions now and plan ahead for later.
- ISBN10 0471725005
- ISBN13 9780471725008
- Publish Date 1 September 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 20 June 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English