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You have been assigned to analyze the accounting information for a Fortune 500 corporation. From the e-Activity, evaluate which tools you would use to analyze its business processes, indicating your rationale. The State Farm Insurance Company operates using a mutual company conducting business throughout the US and Canada. The company business lines include property, casualty, and life insurance companies. Since State Farm is a mutual company, it is collectively owned by State Farm policyholders, and not by shareholders. An analysis of State Farm’s business process can prove to be advantageous to the company’s bottom line. A business process analysis can help State Farm improve how it conducts its day-to-day functions and activities in …show more content…

Today’s customer seeks the convenience of one-stop shopping that we offer. From grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart provides a deep assortment that customers appreciate -- whether they're shopping on-line at Walmart.com, through mobile apps or shopping in a store (Our Story: Walmart, n.d.). Because Walmart is in the retail industry, the tool that I would use is the system flow chart. System flowcharts are important system analysis, design and evaluation too. They provide an immediate form of communication among workers and is an excellent way to describe information flows and procedures within an AIS (Romney & Steinbart, 2012). On the other hand, resources, such as accountants, business analysts, and I/T Specialists who rely on documentation tools, will need proper training on these tools. You have been given the responsibility of familiarizing your team with these tools. Evaluate which techniques, in terms of their appropriateness, you would use to get your team ready for its first assignment - the evaluation of a firm’s internal control structure. I think a conference room setting would be appropriate for such training. In this setting each team member will recognize that although there is a facilitator, each member of the team has value and will feel more free to input their opinion as well as any expertise they may have that is relevant to the task at hand. References: Our Story: Walmart. (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2014, from

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