Accounting Information Systems Crossword Puzzle

4. Competition between two or more different distribution chains used to sell the products or services of the same company.
7. Model of decision making that states that organizations are not rational and that decisions are solutions that become attached to problems for accidental reasons.
9. A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that acts like a problem solver by beginning with a hypothesis and seeking out more information until the hypothesis is either proved or disproved.
10. Tool for retrieving and transferring files from a remote computer.
12. Primary tool for structured analysis that graphically illustrates a system’s component process and the flow of data between them.

1. The coding and scrambling of messages to prevent their being read or accessed without authorization.
2. The strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert system; can be forward or backward chaining.
3. Process to accelerate the generation of information requirements by having end users and information systems specialists work together in intensive interactive design sessions.
5. Artificial intelligence technology that represents knowledge as a database of cases and solutions.
6. Software that handles all application operations between browser-based computers and a company's back-end business applications or databases.
8. Descriptions of management based on behavioral scientists' observations of what managers actually do in their jobs.
11. A database, with reporting and query tools, that stores current and historical data extracted from various operational systems and consolidated for management reporting and analysis.