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  2. Systems analysis - Wikipedia

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    Systems analysis is "the process of studying a procedure or business to identify its goal and purposes and create systems and procedures that will efficiently achieve them". Another view sees systems analysis as a problem-solving technique that breaks a system down into its component pieces and analyses how well those parts work and interact to ...

  3. Activity-based costing - Wikipedia

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    Lean accounting methods have been developed in recent years to provide relevant and thorough accounting, control, and measurement systems without the complex and costly methods of manually driven ABC. Lean accounting is primarily used within lean manufacturing. The approach has proven useful in many service industry areas including healthcare ...

  4. Structured analysis - Wikipedia

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    Structured analysis and system specification published in 1978 by Tom DeMarco. Structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM) first presented in 1983 developed by the UK Office of Government Commerce. Essential Systems Analysis, proposed by Stephen M. McMenamin and John F. Palmer [7] IDEF0 based on SADT, developed by Douglas T. Ross in ...

  5. Systems engineering - Wikipedia

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    QFD house of quality for enterprise product development processes. The term systems engineering can be traced back to Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1940s. [1] The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as a whole, which in complex engineering projects may greatly differ from the sum of the parts' properties, motivated various industries, especially those developing ...

  6. Soft systems methodology - Wikipedia

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    The Soft Systems Methodology was developed primarily by Peter Checkland, through 10 years of research with his colleagues, such as Brian Wilson.The method was derived from numerous earlier systems engineering processes, primarily from the fact traditional 'hard' systems thinking was not able to account for larger organisational issues, with many complex relationships.

  7. Structured systems analysis and design method - Wikipedia

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    Structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM) is a systems approach to the analysis and design of information systems. SSADM was produced for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , a UK government office concerned with the use of technology in government, from 1980 onwards.

  8. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

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    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) [a] is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), [1] and is the default accounting standard used by companies based in the United States.

  9. Systems development life cycle - Wikipedia

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    A systems development life cycle is composed of distinct work phases that are used by systems engineers and systems developers to deliver information systems.Like anything that is manufactured on an assembly line, an SDLC aims to produce high-quality systems that meet or exceed expectations, based on requirements, by delivering systems within scheduled time frames and cost estimates. [3]