The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, 3rd Edition

148 Understanding the Numbers NOTES A server farm is a new service-offering concept in the IT industry enabled by advances in o ...

149 5 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND YOU Edward G. Cale Jr. Amazing though it may seem, the personal computer has only been around f ...

150 Understanding the Numbers mail and Internet-based calendaring. People question how much more produc- tive they as workers ca ...

Information Technology and You 151 Desktop Computers Underneath their covers, most desktop computers are very similar. Many of t ...

152 Understanding the Numbers as phone numbers and addresses. These same capabilities are also available on PCs, most typically ...

Information Technology and You 153 RAM Random access memory (RAM)is the space that the computer uses to execute programs. The am ...

154 Understanding the Numbers decisions, tax services, accounting standards (GAAP and GAAS), continuing education courses, and m ...

Information Technology and You 155 video. To be capable of multimedia, a computer must be equipped with a high-resolution monito ...

156 Understanding the Numbers OPERATING SYSTEMS The operating system is the basic software that makes the computer run. Ap- plic ...

Information Technology and You 157 it difficult to decipher a small company or single practitioner from the large, Fortune 500 c ...

158 Understanding the Numbers that govern the way the calculations are performed in this spreadsheet. For ex- ample, cost of goo ...

159 EXHIBIT 5.3 Spreadsheet formula infrastructur e. Pro Forma Income Statement January February March April May June Year to Da ...

160 Understanding the Numbers data in a graphical format. Exhibit 5.4 presents a graph of the information in our demonstration s ...

Information Technology and You 161 Database Sof tware Adatabase is a collection of data stored in such a way that the user may c ...

162 EXHIBIT 5.5 Personal financial sof tware check-w riting screen. Screen shot printed with permission of Intuit. ...

163 EXHIBIT 5.6 Project management sof tware scre en. ...

164 Understanding the Numbers more than a few people and more than a few dozen steps, one should consider using project manageme ...

Information Technology and You 165 on the network must have a network interface card if it is connected to a LAN, or a modem if ...

166 Understanding the Numbers on your local network as well as to any other network within your WAN, including the Internet. E-m ...

Information Technology and You 167 typically cost $20 to $30 more than the normal $20 per month for modem speed (56K) access. Wo ...