Question 1- A relationship between cash receipt and customer for an enterprise has cardinalities (0,1) cash receipt - (0,N) customer. The enterprise creates a cash receipt table and a customer table to represent the entities. To represent the relationship, the enterprise posts the primary key of the customer entity table into the cash receipt entity table. Why is this considered an implementation compromise, and at what level (conceptual, logical, or physical) is it an implementation compromise?
Question 2- Why are labor operations and labor types often tracked in the conversion process but usually not tracked in the revenue process?
Question 3- Consider the tables given bellow and describe the necessary procedures to construct a query to determine the number of hours for which Freda Matthews is scheduled to work during the first week of April, 2010.
LaborSchedule (Mutual Commitment) Event
Labor Date Schedule Total
SchedulelD Approved Begin Date End Date Dollar Amt LaborReqIDFK SuperlDFK
LS7 3/4/2010 4/1/2010 4/7/2010 $2,758.80 LR7 ES
LaborRequisition (Instigation) Event
Maximum Budget Estimated Budget Labor Request
LaborRealID Date for Request for Request Period SuperlDFX
LR7 2/24/2010 $3,000.00 $2,768.00 4/12010-4/7/2010 E5S
ReservationlaborSchedulelaborType (Reservation') Relationship
LaborSchedulelD LaborTypelD HoursScheduled
LS7 CT2 80
LS7 US3 52
LS7 API 60
LS7 CT1 84
ParticipationlaborScheduleEmployee (Participation4) Relationship
LaborSchedulelD
|
Scheduled EmployeelD
|
Hours Scheduled
|
Wage Rate
|
LS7
|
E15
|
40
|
$10.50
|
157
|
E16
|
40
|
59.75
|
L57
|
E17
|
40
|
$6.20
|
LS7
|
E18
|
6
|
$5.90
|
LS7
|
E19
|
6
|
$5.90
|
LS7
|
E20
|
28
|
$8.50
|
LS7
|
E21
|
40
|
$9.00
|
LS7
|
E22
|
16
|
$8.25
|
LS7
|
E23
|
60
|
$15.00
|
DepartmentSupervisor (Internal Agent)
SuperiD Authorized Spending Limit
E5 $425,000
Question 4- Identify the resources, internal agents, and external agents associated with each of the following events in the finance process:
a. Cash Requisition (Instigation) event
b. Loan (Mutual commitment) event
c. Stock Issuance (Commitment to Increment) event
d. Dividend Declaration (Commitment to Decrement) event
e. Cash Receipt (Economic Increment) event
f. Cash Disbursement (Economic Decrement) event