Data Analytics For Accounting
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ISBN: 9781260375190
Author: RICHARDSON, Vernon J., Teeter, Ryan, Terrell, Katie
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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A company has two divisions, one in the United States and the other in China. One uses Oracle and the other uses SAP for its basic accounting system. What would we call this?
- a. Homogeneous systems
- b. Heterogeneous systems
- c. Dual data warehouse systems
- d. Dual lingo accounting systems
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