AC314 Unit 2 Order-to-Invoice System Flowchart Example

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Fourteen sentences describing how a composite wholesale nursery turns an emailed order into an invoice are redrawn as symbols in this AC314 Unit 2 system flowchart. Purdue Global AC 314, Accounting Information Systems and Enterprise Risk Management, asks BS in Accounting students to translate a process narrative into standard flowchart form. Stillbrook Nursery's chart uses five responsibility columns, Customer, Sales Desk, Credit, Shipping Yard and Billing, plus a sixth for the enterprise system and its files. Every symbol is numbered back to its sentence. Drawing the yard column exposes two control gaps: signed delivery tickets that never mark an order delivered, and a billing review that checks the system against itself.

CourseAC314 Accounting Information Systems and Enterprise Risk Management
UnitUnit 2
Paper typeSystem flowchart
LengthAbout 630 words, 5 pages double-spaced
FormatAPA 7 student paper
SchoolPurdue University Global
ProgramBS in Accounting
UpdatedOctober 2026

Free sample paper for AC314 Unit 2

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Fourteen Sentences, Six Columns: A Unit 2 System Flowchart of a Nursery's Order-to-Invoice Process

[Student Name]

Purdue University Global

AC314: Accounting Information Systems and Enterprise Risk Management

Unit 2 System Flowchart

[Instructor Name]

[Date]

Stillbrook Nursery and its process are composite; the textbooks and framework cited are real.

What this part is doingNaming the columns and the numbering rule in the lead tells the reader how the chart is organized.
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The Narrative

1. A garden center emails an order to the sales desk.

2. A sales clerk keys the order into the enterprise system, which checks plant availability.

3. The system holds any order that would push the customer over its credit limit.

4. The credit manager reviews held orders on screen and releases or rejects them.

5. Released orders print as pick lists in the shipping yard.

6. Yard crews pull plants and scan each tag with a handheld scanner.

7. The scans update the open order in the system.

8. The yard lead prints a three-part delivery ticket from the system.

9. The driver takes parts one and two with the load; part three is filed in the yard by ticket number.

10. The customer signs part one on delivery, and the driver returns it.

11. The driver files signed part one with the yard lead at day's end.

12. Each night the system creates invoices for every ticket marked delivered.

13. A billing clerk reviews the invoice batch total against the count of tickets marked delivered.

14. Invoices are emailed to customers, and the receivable is posted.

The Flowchart, Column by Column

Customer: an email document symbol for the order (1); a document symbol for signed ticket part one (10); a document symbol for the emailed invoice, ending the flow (14). Sales Desk: a manual input symbol for keying the order (2). Credit: a display symbol for the held-order screen and a decision diamond, release or reject (4). Shipping Yard: a document symbol for the pick list (5); a manual operation for pulling plants and an input symbol for the handheld scan (6); a document symbol for the three-part ticket (8); an off-page connector to the truck (9); an offline file triangle labeled N for part three filed by number (9); a manual operation for filing returned part one (11). Enterprise System: processing rectangles for the availability check (2), credit check (3), order update from scans (7) and nightly invoicing (12); a decision diamond for over-limit (3); disk symbols for the customer master, plant availability, open orders and receivables files. Billing: a display symbol for the batch total and a manual operation comparing it with delivered tickets (13).

Every symbol carries the number of its sentence, so a reader can check the drawing against the narrative line by line (Romney & Steinbart, 2018).

Drawing the yard column made one gap visible that the narrative hides: nothing in sentence 11 connects the returned signed tickets to the system, so a load that left but was never marked delivered would never be invoiced.

What this part is doingThe highlighted sentence shows the flowchart doing analytical work, finding a gap the prose concealed.
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Two Gaps the Chart Reveals

1. Undelivered status. Invoices are generated only for tickets marked delivered (12), but marking happens nowhere in the narrative. The signed part one goes into a file and stops. A weekly report of tickets printed but not invoiced, compared with signed part ones, would close the gap.

2. Batch review. The billing clerk compares invoice totals with a count produced by the same system (13), so the check cannot catch a ticket the system never marked. An independent count from the yard's numbered part threes would make the review meaningful (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, 2013).

Drawing Conventions Used

Columns flow from left to right in the order work passes between departments; symbols follow the conventions of the textbook's flowcharting chapter; annotations are kept to the sentence numbers so the chart stays readable (Hall, 2019).

What this part is doingEnding on the conventions shows the chart was drawn to a standard a grader can check.
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References

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. (2013). Internal control: Integrated framework. https://www.coso.org

Hall, J. A. (2019). Accounting information systems (10th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Romney, M. B., & Steinbart, P. J. (2018). Accounting information systems (14th ed.). Pearson.

The Purdue Global AC314 Unit 2 instructions

The second AC314 unit gives a process narrative and asks for a system flowchart. Number the narrative's sentences first so every symbol can point back to one. Set up columns for each department or role that does work, left to right in the order work passes, and a column for the computer system with its processing and files. Use the textbook's standard symbols: documents, manual operations, manual input, computer processing, online storage, offline files, decisions, displays and connectors. Show every document's copies and where each ends up. Label files and decisions. Keep annotations short. After drawing, read the chart for gaps: documents that go nowhere, steps with no check, or checks that rely on the data they are checking. Describe any gaps in a short section. Cite the textbook's flowcharting chapter and COSO in APA 7.

How this AC314 Unit 2 example is built

The sample reproduces the narrative in fourteen numbered sentences, from the garden center's email to the emailed invoice. A column-by-column description follows, listing each symbol with its sentence number: the email document, manual input at the sales desk, the credit manager's display and decision, the yard's pick list, scans, three-part ticket and offline file, the system's processing rectangles and four disk files, and billing's batch review. A sentence notes that the numbering lets a reader check the chart line by line. The highlighted sentence identifies the gap between returned tickets and the system. A section on two gaps proposes a weekly report of tickets not invoiced and an independent count from the yard's numbered copies, citing COSO. A closing section states the drawing conventions, citing Hall.

Where the points sit in the AC314 Unit 2 rubric

In AC314, the flowchart is graded for completeness and for correct symbols. Every sentence of the narrative should appear, and numbering makes that easy to verify. Columns must match the departments that do the work. Document copies need to be traced to their destinations, and files must be labeled. Decisions require diamonds with labeled exits. Misused symbols, such as a processing rectangle for manual work, cost points. A chart that is technically correct but never read for weaknesses misses the analysis credit; naming gaps and suggesting controls shows the student understands why flowcharts are drawn. Clean layout, with flows left to right and few crossing lines, is assessed. Purdue Global instructors in this course also expect APA 7 citations to the textbook's symbol conventions and to COSO where controls are discussed.

AC314 Unit 2 help: mistakes that cost points

Flowcharts in AIS courses often skip sentences in the narrative or merge two steps into one symbol. Students use the same symbol for every step, or confuse document and manual operation shapes. Document copies are drawn but left hanging with no destination. The computer column is missing, so files and processing are scattered across departments. Decision diamonds lack labeled exits. Flow lines cross repeatedly, making the chart hard to read. Some students describe the process in prose beside the chart instead of drawing it. Gaps are never discussed. If your narrative covers purchasing, payroll or cash receipts instead, a writer can draw the chart from your sentences and number every symbol to match.

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AC314 Unit 2 questions, answered

Which symbol set does the sample use?

The conventional set most AIS textbooks teach, derived from the ANSI flowcharting standard: documents with a wavy base, trapezoids for manual operations, rectangles for computer processing, disk shapes for online storage and an inverted triangle for offline files. If your textbook draws a symbol differently, the chart follows the textbook and the legend says so, because graders mark against the course's own conventions.

How is a system flowchart different from a document flowchart?

A document flowchart follows paper and electronic documents between departments and shows little of the processing. A system flowchart adds the computer's work: data entered, files read and updated, outputs produced. The AC314 sample is a system flowchart, so the enterprise system has its own column. Where a Unit 2 prompt asks for a document flowchart instead, that column narrows to the documents the system prints.

Can the flowchart be drawn from my own narrative?

Yes, and it should be. Send the narrative your section supplied, sentence for sentence, with the rubric and the drawing tool you are expected to use. The chart is built from that text, with each symbol numbered back to the sentence it depicts, so you can check the match yourself before submitting and see exactly where each step landed.

Where can I find a free AC314 Unit 2 sample paper?

This page offers a complete AC314 Unit 2 system flowchart for a composite wholesale nursery's order-to-invoice process, with a numbered narrative, six columns, two control gaps and APA 7 references.

What gap does the AC314 Unit 2 flowchart reveal?

Signed delivery tickets are filed in the yard, but nothing marks the order delivered in the system. Since invoices are created only for delivered tickets, a load could leave and never be billed.