Description
The authors focus on the following topics:
Information Systems *Contribution of IS/IT to organisations *Systems concepts and attributes *Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS *Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP *Software application for HR and other areas *Legislation and Security
Finance *Sources and application of funds *Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets *Interpretation of accounts - management ratios *Costing and budgeting
Statistics *Sources and uses of statistics *Presentation of statistics *Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests *Use of current software for computation of statistics * Designed to cover the CIPD syllabus - finance, information systems and statistics * Includes sample exam questions after each topic area to facilitate learning * An array of case studies from both HR and business spheres support theory and offer practical insight