Self-assessment

Take a moment now to think back over this chapter’s content and test your understanding of the topics covered here. Think about how you would apply the following concepts to your day-to-day work:

1. How would you respond to a client who tells you that they sometimes buy things from a company, but they also sell things to that same company, and they want to have them set up just once within their account?
2. The senior accountant for your client lets you know that, occasionally, they will personally need to enter journals into the system that no other employee should be able to view. What should your response be, or how can you help meet this requirement?
3. Your client’s business has a high sales volume, with something like 5,000 new orders placed on an average day. What special questions should you ask in cases like this? (And how should this affect your designs for setting up their orders in the system?)
4. A business uses quotes to...