Computer Talk
Money
Computers and Risks
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
Etc...
100
The smallest unit of information in a computer, with a value of 0 or 1.
What is a bit?
100
This is used to predict expected income and expenses, usually for one year.
What is budgeting?
100
Any incident or circumstance that might result in a loss.
What is a risk?
100
The level at which budgets usually begin.
What is the departmental level?
100
Systems used to order supplies, drugs, and equipment.
What are purchasing systems?
200
The smallest unit of text data.
What is a character?
200
The money the business owes to its suppliers and others.
What is accounts payable?
200
The report that medication errors, patient falls, and visitor falls should be reported on.
What is an incident report?
200
What two things budgets usually forcast for the next fiscal year.
What is revenue and expenses?
200
An input device that scans a copy and sends it to a computer as a digital image.
What is a scanner?
300
The smallest unit of a digital image.
What is a pixel?
300
Amounts that are owed, but not yet paid.
What are liabilities?
300
Where incident reports are filed and maintained.
What is a separate file?
300
Another term used for income.
What is revenue?
300
The primary communication tool in all types of business.
What is e-mail?
400
Any information that is input.
What is data?
400
The money that is owed to the business.
What is accounts receivable?
400
Controls the flow of information passing to and from other parts of the computer.
What is the Central processing unit?
400
Inventory and materials management, budgeting, and payroll are all included in these systems.
What are financial information systems?
400
Demographics, next of kin, and address are all examples of this.
What are data elements?
500
This type of system share a common database and are produces by the same vendor.
What is integrated?
500
Cash, property, and things of value that are owned by the business.
What are assets?
500
Computer monitors, speakers, and printers are examples.
What is an output device?
500
Is used to attribute direct and indirect costs to various departments.
What is cost accounting?
500
The department becoming increasingly responsible for telecommunications systems.
What is IT department?