Managing Information: Core Management

<p>The authors focus on the following topics:<br><em>Information Systems</em><br>*Contribution of IS/IT to organisations<br>*Systems concepts and attributes<br>*Planning reviewing and controlling with IS<br>*Serving the end user - spreadsheets databases e-mail and DTP<br>*Software application for HR and other areas<br>*Legislation and Security<br><br><em>Finance</em><br>*Sources and application of funds<br>*Accounting documentation - cash statements profit and loss accounts balance sheets<br>*Interpretation of accounts - management ratios<br>*Costing and budgeting<br><br><em>Statistics</em><br>*Sources and uses of statistics<br>*Presentation of statistics<br>*Interpretation - measures of average measures of distribution correlation time series index numbers significance tests<br>*Use of current software for computation of statistics</p>