CIS
3281 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
SPRING,
2004
Prof.
D. G. Duncan
DIAGRAMMING
EXERCISE
Jolt Electric,
Inc. is an electrical utility company which uses a minicomputer for processing
its accounting applications, including billing. Data stored on customers include name,
address, telephone number, account number, meter readings for the past year, and
consumption for the past year. Meter readings are input through the keyboard to
update the customer master file.
The billing program is executed to perform the actual update and store
new data to the customer master file on disk. Outputs consist of 1) listing of amounts
billed, 2) customer bills, 3) error report of customers not receiving bills, and
4) updated customer master file.
1)
Using graphical software, such as Visio, or Drawing tools within Powerpoint,
draw a dataflow diagram of
the Jolt Electric billing system.
2)
Using graphical software, such as Visio or Drawing Tools within Powerpoint, draw
a systems flowchart of the
Jolt Electric billing system.
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