Computerized Accounting System (CAS) / Integrated Accounting System Decision to Build

Project Manager cont.
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resolves interdepartmental conflicts

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Monitors and control costs and project timetable.


The project manager can be an end user, a member of the system development team or a professional project manager.
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System Development Project Team – completes assigned tasks, communicates effectively with users by actively involving them in the development process, works in accordance with standards and advises the project manager of necessary project plan deviations
User Project Team – completes assigned tasks, communicates effectively with the systems developers by actively involving themselves in the development process as subject matter experts (SMEs), works according to standards and advises the project manager of expected and actual plan deviations.
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Security Officer – Ensures that system controls and supporting processes provide an effective level of protection, based on the data classification set in accordance with security policies and procedures; consults throughout the life cycle on appropriate security measures that should be incorporated into the system.
Quality Assurance (QA) – Personnel who review results and deliverables within each phase at the end of each phase, and confirm compliance with requirements.
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Application Controls – The objectives of application controls which may be manual or programmed, are to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the records and the validity of the entries made therein. Application controls are controls over input, processing and output functions. They include methods for ensuring that:
ü  Only complete, accurate and valid data are entered and
updated in a computer system
ü  Processing accomplishes the correct tasks
ü  Processing results meets expectations
ü  Data are maintained

Computerized Accounting System (CAS) / Integrated Accounting System Decision to Build