Porter's Value Chain and the REA Analysis as an Accounting Information SystemPaperback, 30 August 2011

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1,7, Linnaeus University (-), language: English, abstract: Rachel Branckowitz and Rick Young are two dentists who are merging their offices together. They are faced with finding an Accounting Information System that fulfils their requirements e.g. the extended number of clients. The merging and system implementation is due in six month. Therefore Porter's Value Chain will be derived as a solution after having explained the Value Chain concept. From there on a REA Analysis will be developed, which will be explained in detail. The Case used in this paper "Designing and Implementing an Information System for the Dental Office of Branckowitz & Young" by Alex Nikitkov and Barbara Sainty can be found in "ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVES Instructional Cases Teaching Notes and Supplementary Materials" Volume 7, Issue 4.