...Design a Flowchart for a Process Ana A, Brown OPS/571 October 17, 2012 Dave Kunz Design a Flowchart for a Process Every day of our daily lives is a part of a process. Everybodys parts of the process are different in many ways and still the same in other ways. When Ana was working six month ago her routine was the same three days of the week and the other two different. Ana is on disability now until February 2013 and my days differ on a daily bases. Ana will design a flowchart process that states how she would like to spend less time on her routine of going to work. The daily process that she would like to do more efficiently is spend less time doing her morning routine. Ana have chosen this process because it would allow her to examine the process she uses every day to get ready for her day and hopefully find ways to reduce the time it takes her to complete her daily routine. To assist Ana in her journey for a more efficient daily routine she has chosen to use a flowchart to document her daily routine process (flowchart, 2010). Discovering Impacting Aspect The major decisions to be made during Ana morning routine, is does she get up when her alarm clock goes off or does she hit the snooze button? After Ana get out of bed she thinks should she make her coffee to drink now or for the road? After that she ask myself does she brush my teeth first and get dress or does she do her hair and makeup? All the decisions affect the...
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...Running Head: DESIGN A FLOWCHART FOR A PROCESS Design a Flowchart for a Process University of Phoenix OPS 571/ Operations Management As humans that are prone to develop habits, by nature we ritualize or develop processes by which we perform certain daily tasks. These processes may very well be time consuming, while some may not be and are very effective and efficient. When examining a process, a flow chart could be an important tool to use to understand how a process is being performed as well as provide some insight. This flowchart will aid in understanding how each task is performed and what if anything can be done to minimize the time it takes to complete the process while maintaining importance and goal centered results (Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano, 2006). The result of this process should be a stepping stone as to how the overall process can be improved. While developing the flow chart mentioned above, the process that is being analyzed is identifying how much time can be managed more efficiently and reduced while preparing for and driving to work weekly. This flow chart will be a multi stage process meaning the tasks or activities that have been performed has multiple stages or flows (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006). Some of the factors that affect the process design directly are whether or not getting up on time is achieved or how many times was the snooze button pushed, whether or not a shower was done the night before, does the outfit need to be ironed or is...
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...Design A Flowchart For A Process Rehana Siddiquee OPS/571 9th August 2011 Fred Gapasin, Jr. University of Phoenix Design A Flowchart For A Process One of the daily processes that I cannot go without is driving to work every morning. Since I have to be at work by a specific time each morning, the “time” unit is has been prioritized in this process. As per the flowchart below the process begins: 1. Start the car 2. Drive to the gas station if needs gas, otherwise drive to work 3. Stop when the signal is red, otherwise continue driving 4. Completely stop and park the car, when arrive at work. Couple of the main factors involved in the process that affects this unit are: 1. The car needs gas: if the gas is low, then I need to stop at a gas station and fill up the tank. Each day taking gas requires at least 7 min. 2. Signals one the way turns red: each red signal will add additional wait time. Each time stopping at signal lights take at least 2 min. Altogether I get 5 signal lights on the way to work. [pic] The metric I have used in the flowchart to measure my process is ‘time’. Following are the data collected for the work week: Wednesday (8/3/11): No gas + 2 red signals = 19 min Thursday (8/4/11): No gas + 3 red signals = 21 min Friday (8/5/11): Required gas + 2 signals = 26 min Saturday (8/6/11): No gas + 1 red signals = 17 min Sunday (8/7/11): No gas + 4 signals =23 min Monday (8/8/11): No gas + 2 red signals =...
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...Design a Flowchart for a Process Sherry Martin OPS 571 University of Phoenix November 19, 2010 Design a Flowchart for a Process Everyday, people perform daily processes as part of their regular routines and many of them may consume a great amount of time. In this paper, a specific process has been identified and a flowchart has been designed to show the various factors that affect the design process as well as the specific metric that identifies the measurement process. By designing a flowchart for this process, the desired result is to identify how the amount of time involved can be minimized while also making the overall process more efficient. Factors Affecting Process Design The factors affecting the process design include: 1) “Do I get up promptly?” OR “Do I hit the snooze button on the alarm?” 2) “Do I have my clothes ready for work?” OR “Do I need to decide what to wear in the morning?” 3) “Is there a great deal of traffic or congestion?” OR “Is the traffic moving smoothly?” Each of these factors can greatly affect the process design because of their potential impact on the overall amount of time expended. Some additional steps in the process design which have less impact on the overall efficiency of driving to work include: 1) Shower 2) Brush teeth 3) Fix hair 4) Do makeup 5) Breakfast Identified Metric The one metric that has been identified to measure the process is time. The flowchart will incorporate...
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...Chapter One As accounting students we have studied a variety of accounting areas involving financial and taxes. The accounting information course appears to be a course that heads in a different direction then what we as students have become accustomed to. Speaking for myself I have always been drawn to the accounting field because it is a black and white area. In other words, there it is organized and has right and wrong answers, this leaving out the gray areas between right and wrong. Accounting information systems appears to be throwing us into a whole new area of the study of accounting. The fine line between right and wrong is becoming smudged into a gray area. With accounting information system we are being thrown into an area that is now unfamiliar to what we have come to know as right or wrong. This accounting information system is designed to help us think outside of the box by providing unstructured problems that will increase our ability to develop professional judgment, our confidence in our ability, and use more critical thinking. The conceptual framework was developed in the late 1970’s by the FASB to be used as a guide for accounting principles. The conceptual framework is set up as a pyramid that has three levels. The top level provides the objective of financial reporting: provide information to decision makers, the second or middle level is divided into two parts, one part is aimed at the elements of financial statements and the second part is geared towards...
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...Report on Book Chapter Series in Chapter 3 Transaction Processing EAST WEST UNIVERSITY Course Title: Accounting Information System Course Code: ACT 430 Sec: 01 Submitted to Nikhil Chandra Shil Department of Business Administration East West University Submitted by Name | ID | Md. Saiful Islam | 2011-1-10-293 | Md. Sariful Islam | 2011-1-10-286 | Saad Abduallah | 2011-1-10-362 | Sakil Ahamed Dip MD.Khanzarul Islam | 2011-3-10-149 2011-1-10-428 | Date of Submission: 25th November, 2014 November 25, 2014 Nikhil Chandra Shil Bachelor of Business Administration East West University Subject: Submission of report on Accounting Information System in chapter 3. Dear Sir, We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the guidance and support you have provided us during this course of this report. Without your help, this report would have been impossible to complete. To prepare the report we collected what we believe to be most relevant information to make our report as analytical and reliable as possible. We have concentrated our best effort to achieve the objectives of the report and hope that our endeavor will serve the purpose. The practical knowledge and experience gathered during report preparation will immeasurably help in our future professional life. We request you to excuse us for any mistake that may occur in the report despite...
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...GISELLE ANN T. MAZON BSA 4-2 Flowcharts: A graphical tool that diagrammatically depicts the steps and structure of an algorithm or program Process / Operation Symbols Symbol | Name (alias) | Description | | Process | Show a Process or action step. This is the most common symbol in both process flowcharts and process maps. | | Predefined Process (Subroutine) | A Predefined Process symbol is a marker for another process step or series of process flow steps that are formally defined elsewhere. This shape commonly depicts sub-processes (or subroutines in programming flowcharts). If the sub-process is considered "known" but not actually defined in a process procedure, work instruction, or some other process flowchart or documentation, then it is best not to use this symbol since it implies a formally defined process. | | Alternate Process | As the shape name suggests, this flowchart symbol is used when the process flow step is an alternate to the normal process step. Flow lines into an alternate process flow step are typically dashed. | | Delay | The Delay flowchart symbol depicts any waiting period that is part of a process. Delay shapes are common in process mapping. | | Preparation | As the names states, any process step that is a Preparation process flow step, such as a set-up operation. | | Manual Operation | Manual Operations flowchart shapes show which process steps are not automated. In data processing flowcharts, this data flow shape indicates a looping...
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...10, 1989, more than 1.5 million children and women have passed through its doors. It is the fourth busiest labor and delivery hospital in the United States and the largest neonatal intensive care unit in the Southeast, and APH ranks fifth out of 5,000 hospitals nationwide in patient satisfaction. “Part of the reason for APH’s success,” says Executive Director Kathy Swanson, “ is the our continuous improvement process. Our goal is 100% patient satisfaction. But getting there means constantly examing and reexaming everything we do, from patient flow, to cleanliness, to layout spaces, to colors on the walls, to speed of medication delivery from pharmacy to patient. Continuous improvements is a huge and never ending task.”. One of the tools the process flow chart. Staffer Diane Bowles, who carries the “Clinical Practice Improvement Consultant” charts scores of processes. Bowles’s flowcharts help study ways to improve the turnaround of a vacated room (especially important in a hospital that has operated at 130% of capacity for years), speed up the admission process, and deliver warm meals warm. Lately, APH has been examining the flow of maternity patients (and their paperwork) from the moment they enter the hospital until they are discharged, hopefully with their healthy baby a day or two later. The flow of maternity patients follows these steps: 1. Enter APH’s Labor and Delivery check-in desk entrance. 2. If the baby is born en route or if birth is imminent, the mother...
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...COMP101 – Problem Solving with Computing Homework - WEEK 2 [30 points] This is a review of some of the material from Chapter 2 and lectures from class. No credit for answers that are copies or near verbatim transcripts – please use your own words1 and document sources where appropriate. 1 This will apply to all assignments in this class. Answer the following questions: Chapter 2 1. Short Answers [1 point each, 2 points total] 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? The first thing that a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a program is to closely relate customer (Interview ) to inquire or gather information about the problem. 2. What two things must you normally specify in a variable declaration? The two things normally specified in a variable declaration are the variable type and identifier. 2. Algorithms / Pseudocode [1 point each, 5 points total] 1. Design an algorithm that prompts the user to enter his or her height and stores the user’s input in a variable named height. Declare height Display “Enter Your Height” Input Height Display “Height” 2. Write assignment statements that perform the following operations with the variables a and b. - Adds 2 to a and stores the result in b. - Subtracts 8 from b and stores the result in a Set b=2+a Set a=b-8 3. Write a pseudocode statement that declares the variable cost so it can hold real numbers. Floating...
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...Flowcharting is a tool for analysing processes. It allows you to break any process down into individual events or activities and to display these in shorthand form showing the logical relationships between them. Constructing flowcharts promotes better understanding of processes, and better understanding of processes is a pre-requisite for improvement. The Flowchart Symbols and Their Usage Process represents a step in your process. Predefined process indicates a set of steps that combine to create a sub-process that is defined elsewhere, often on another page of the same drawing. Decision indicates a point where the outcome of a decision dictates the next step. There can be multiple outcomes, but often there are just two - yes and no. Terminal points indicates the starting and ending points of a process. Data shape indicates that information is coming into the process from outside, or leaving the process. Delay shape represents a waiting period where no activity is done. In Process Mapping, delays are often important as they may result in adding to the cost of the product or simply delaying its production. Database shape: Use this shape for a step that results in information being stored. Step represents a single step within a process, and usually contains the name of a specific action. Page symbols refer to individual web pages, which may or may not contain multiple elements. File symbols represent those data elements that exist independently of navigational...
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...Design a Flowchart for a Process • Select a process that you do every day but would like to spend less time doing, such as driving to work. I have selected the process of laundering as illustration of flow chart. • Design a flowchart using an appropriate tool. The instructor is more concerned with your ability to explain how process design works and why it’s valuable than with fancy graphics I have used the features of Microsoft Word to design the flowchart. Flowcharts are valuable than fancy graphics as it represents the systematic flow of logic to all the involved members in effective manner. It can also be referred again and again to understand the system as documentation allows keeping the blueprint of design for analysis in the development of system. • Comment on the factors that affect the process design. The factors that affect the process of design in laundering are right temperature, quality of cloths and adequate water in the tub. It acts as decisive factor is execution of steps. Following are the steps involved in laundering the cloths: (1) Sort the cloths for white, bright and dark colors. (2) Check the pockets of sorted cloths and empty it. (3) Read the product label to follow the instructions. (4) Measure the right amount of detergent. (5) Pour the detergent into washer. (6) If liquid fabric softener is required, add it else go to step 7. (7) Choose the water temperature as per instruction of washing machine...
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...Flow Diagrams Symbols There are some symbols that are used in the drawing of business process diagrams (data flow diagrams). These are now explained, together with the rules that apply to them. Flow diagrams in general are usually designed using simple symbols such as a rectangle, an oval or a circle depicting a processes, data stored or an external entity, and arrows are generally used to depict the data flow from one step to another. A DFD usually comprises of four components. These four components can be represented by four simple symbols. These symbols can be explained in detail as follows: External entities (source/destination of data) are represented by squares; Processes (input-processing-output) are represented by rectangles with rounded corners; Data Flows (physical or electronic data) are referred to by arrows; and finally, Data Stores (physical or electronic like XML files) are presented by open-ended rectangles. Data flow diagrams present the logical flow of information through a system in graphical or pictorial form. Data flow diagrams have only four symbols, which makes it useful for communication between analysts and users. Data flow diagrams (DFDs) show the data used and provided by processes within a system. DFDs make use of four basic symbols. Create structured analysis, information flow, process-oriented, data-oriented, and data process diagrams as well as data flowcharts. External Entity An external entity is a source or destination of a data flow which...
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...Solutions to REVIEW QUESTIONS –Chapter 1 1. An accounting information system is a collection of resources designed to provide data to a variety of decision makers according to their needs and entitlement. 2. The users of accounting information fall into two broad groups: external and internal. External users include stockholders, investors, creditors, government agencies, customers and vendors, competitors, labor unions, and the public at large. Internal users are the managers in an organization. 3. Electronic data processing (EDP) is the use of computer technology to perform an organization's transaction-oriented data processing. Management information systems (MIS) use computer technology to provide decision-oriented information to managers. In a decision support system (DSS), data are processed into a decision-making format for the end user. An expert system (ES) is a knowledgebased information system that uses its knowledge about a specific application area to act as an expert consultant to end users. 4. The four common operating cycles of business activity are the revenue cycle, expenditure cycle, production cycle, and finance cycle. 5. The term internal control suggests actions taken within an organization to regulate and direct the activities of the organization. 6. A controller is in charge of the accounting function. The treasurer is responsible for the finances of the business. 7. Internal audit is charged with monitoring and assessing...
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...------------------------------------------------- Documentation Techniques Five documentation techniques include data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, system flowcharts, program flowcharts, and record layout diagrams. Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams * Data flow diagrams – Data flow diagrams (DFD) use symbols to represent the entities, processes, data flows, and data stores that pertain to a system. * Entities – Entities in a DFD are objects that lie at the boundary of the system being modeled. They are the sources of and destinations for data and can be other interfacing systems or entities external to the organization. Entities are labeled as singular nouns on a DFD. Data stores represent the accounting files and records used in each process, and the labeled arrows represent data flows between processes, data stores, and entities. * Processes – Processes are labeled with a descriptive verb. Process objects should not be represented as nouns. The arrows connecting objects should be labeled to represent specific flows of data. Also, each data flow label should be unique. The same label should not be attached to two different flow lines in the same DFD. * Usage – Systems analysts use DFDs extensively to represent the logical elements of the system. It does not depict the physical system. * Entity relationship diagrams – An entity relationship diagram is used to represent the relationship between business...
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...Flowchart: Keyless entry fob University of Phoenix OPS/GM571 November 20, 2012 Flowchart: Keyless entry fob Operations management has benefits such as cost reduction, increased profitability, and increased customer satisfaction. For a global company with different suppliers, a well-defined process design can mean the difference between profit and loss. A flowchart gives a simplified, easy to understand overview of the processes. From this every step can be analyzed to determine possible improvements in the process design. The flowchart For this flowchart (attachment 1), the control chip (component A) will be supplied by China, the rolling transmitter (component B) by Japan, the plastic housing (component C), by Taiwan, and the key ring (component D), by India. Using standard flowchart symbols, as described by Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano (2006), a waiting area, as depicted by the inverted triangle, will be receiving all parts ordered, to be present before assembly of the keyless entry fob can begin. This can also act as a buffer zone for parts, to minimize the negative effects of poor supply by the manufacturer. Factors affecting the process design. Different factors that may affect the design process could be the supply time by different suppliers, and the on-hand quantity of each of the different components. If a specific supplier cannot deliver a component timeously, vendors need to be changed, or a larger buffer time period may need to be introduced (although...
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