Kudler Fine Foods - Accounting System

Romney, M., & Steinbart, P. (2012). Accounting information systems. (12th ed., p. 143). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

The Kudler Fine Foods is one the best stores around. They have come a long way in such a short period of time. They, however have out grown their old network infrastructure and they are in in dire need of an enterprise wide upgrade to their stores as they will start to lose money if this does not happen very soon.. The strategic goals of the enterprise network are to introduce new technologies in data collection, company communication, and information protection while providing the best data speeds and network access and use friendly access. This is very important because if this is done correctly, this will increase revenue

Competitive intelligence and analysis is an important part of a business. Competitive intelligence is the art of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, individuals, concepts, information, ideas or data needed to support executives and managers in making strategic decisions for a business. This includes a broad array from government intelligence to market intelligence to business intelligence (Competitive Intelligence, n.d.).

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Using benchmarked data, Kudler Fine Foods can "reduce costs of ordering foods and minimize the amount of food to be stored, while also having a zero stock out policy…[and develop] a supplier relations program…" (Apollo Group 2, 2005) These initiatives will reduce Kudler Fine Foods ' internal costs which can be passed on to the consumers.

Kudler is planning to have an annual revenue increase by 5% within 12 months breaking it down to four categories. A quarter percent gain is anticipated in the projects launch as well as the training of employees’. Profits will increase by a half of a percent during the assessment and alteration of the project with the promotion of the Frequent Shopper Program taking place at this time as well. In each phase of the development customer satisfaction will increase so will revenue, which will lead to an overall increase of 4.75% (Kudler Fine Foods. (2004). Apollo.).

The recent years there has been many breaches in organizations throughout the globe. These attacks have had terrible outcomes and have cause Havoc on several companies because of the security that they had were vulnerable to external attacks. Many applications and software programs were infected. These attacks all occurred over the internet. As the internet keeps growing it is harder than ever to track down were the attacks generate from (location) that is. Because of these protocols, the security breaches still are occurring and difficult to eliminate and design a cure for them as they change as frequently as technology does. Because of the ease of the attacks, user simply click on a link and the attack is executed. Because of the recent

Sage Abra HRMS automates payroll processing and would help to keep Kudler Fine Foods in compliance with the latest government regulations for withholding, filing, and depositing taxes. With payroll and HR data stored in the same database, unnecessary paperwork is greatly reduced. Changes made to the HRMS database reflect in both payroll and HR systems. This eliminates errors and the need for duplicate entry of employee, pay rate, benefits, and deduction information.

Kudler fine foods are a high level specialty food store with the finest series of food and wine. The storehouse is dedicated to offering top class foods to their consumers. Kudler fine foods would love to make an innovative program to follow any customer acquisition through a frequent shopper program. The frequent shopper program would gift loyalty points and give the chance to convert those points towards Kudler fine food products. The frequent shopper program will store customer purchase behavior, demographic information, which will assist in any promotions and store

Kudler Fine Foods offers delicacy food s to its customers. Kudler treats its foods with love and care. These delicacies give customers excellent meat, bread, seafood, and wine. Kudler’s mission, vision, values, and goals are extraordinary. This paper is a review of Kudler’s reason for existence, organizational structure, steps in collaboration, positive action plan, and collaborative roles of the key stakeholders. Kudler uses these steps to have a successful organization. The organization is successful because customers can get quality foods here.

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With this system each customer’s order cost the same amount to complete causing orders with high profit limits to subsidized orders with low profit limits making it difficult for Super Bakery to know the true cost for an order. The company changed to the activity-based costing (ABC) system allowing the managers the ability to recognize the cost and profit margins for each sale. The ABC system associates the costs with the activities allowing managers the opportunity to access a system that allocates overhead costs that uses multiple bases. Costs can be traced back to each individual’s account regardless of the product provider letting managers know which products are profitable and which ones are not. The traditional costing system allocates cost to departments or jobs instead of overhead cost pools. The traditional costing system makes it difficult to know which activity or product is making a profit.

An Accounting Information System is an integral part of the new design of Kudler’s computer system. Accountants do not necessarily need to understand completely how computers process data of the accounting application, but it is essential for them to understand the flowcharts and documentation that shows how this processing works. The purpose of the new system is to integrate the four Kudler locations. Centralizing the accounting system will save Kudler money by automating accounting, inventory, human resources, and purchasing. Additionally, implementing levels of security, the new

Information systems changed forever the way accounting tasks are processed. The days of green paper pads are gone, and instead businesses have a centralized place where all accounting transactions are entered and saved. No more looking for paper