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C A S E S T U DY
NEXT-DAY AIR SERVICE
This is the beginning of a cumulative case study about a fictitious firm we call Next-Day Air Service (NDAS).
The case study begins here in Chapter 1 and continues throughout the rest of the book. It requires you to complete tasks that are related to topics covered in each corresponding chapter of the text. The end of each chapter contains the case narrative, related figures, and a set of questions and problems. These do not have one unique solution. There are too many alternatives when dealing with LANs, WANs, MANs, BNs, and the Internet, so a reallife network design and development problem can have several workable answers.
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The Payroll Department then prepares the paychecks for both hourly and salaried employees. The paychecks are sent via overnight delivery on the following Thursdays.
Although the Information Services/Data Processing Division, under Les Coone as acting manager, performs all data entry, processing, and check printing, John Lawson in Accounts Payable is the person who generates, performs all data entry, processing, and check printing, John Lawson in Accounts Payable is the person who gener
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C A S E S T U DY
NEXT-DAY AIR SERVICE

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Chicago
Washington D.C.
St.Louis
To Denver

Memphis
Atlanta

To Los Angeles

Dallas

Jackson

Montgomery

Jacksonville

Houston

New Orleans

Orlando
Tampa

Legend
Corporate routes
Agent routes

Miami

Connecting routes

FIGURE 1–7

Next-Day Air Service map of operations.

ates, reviews, and approves the reports and totals. Because so many new employees have been added at both the corporate and branch offices, a new full-time position has been added in Accounts Payable to handle the payroll and assist Lawson. The subject of paying employees weekly has been discussed as well. Figure 1–8 shows the
NDAS organization chart.
The branch offices currently batch all billing data by order date and send them daily by overnight delivery to the corporate office

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