The authors focus on the following topics:

Information Systems

*Contribution of IS/IT to organisations

*Systems concepts and attributes

*Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS

*Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP

*Software application for HR and other areas

*Legislation and Security

Finance

*Sources and application of funds

*Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets

*Interpretation of accounts - management ratios

*Costing and budgeting

Statistics

*Sources and uses of statistics

*Presentation of statistics

*Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests

*Use of current software for computation of statistics