Integrated Accounting for Windows®, 7th Edition Dale A. Klooster | Warren Allen instructor manual

Integrated Accounting for Windows®, 7th Edition Dale A. Klooster | Warren Allen  instructor manual

PART 1: TEACHING SUGGESTIONS
This part of the manual consists of teaching aids and suggestions. The information is designed
to provide you technical information and offer suggestions for making the best educational use
of Integrated Accounting 7e in your classroom. The material presented covers each topic in the
same sequence as presented in the text-workbook.
Required Hardware
Integrated Accounting 7e comes complete on one standard compact disk. To use the software,
you need a processor running in the Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Me, XP, Vista, or 7
environment. In addition, a hard disk drive with at least 15MB of available disk space, and a CD
drive is required for installation. A printer is optional but highly recommended.
Technical Support
South-Western/Cengage Learning’s Technical Support Team is available to help you with any
technical problems you may have with this media product.
http://www.cengage.com/support/
If you identify a problem, please check your hardware to make sure it is working properly. If the
hardware is functioning correctly, please visit the Cengage Support Website to communicate via
the Live Help Online Form.
Features of the Software
The Integrated Accounting 7e software makes use of the standard Windows user interface that
utilizes drop-down menus, a toolbar, movable overlapping windows, mouse support, on-screen
help, and other Windows conventions. Because this software uses the standard Windows
interface, visual and functional consistency is achieved within and across Windows-based
applications. The techniques and terminology your students will learn in

2 Part 1 Teaching Suggestions
inventory, and payroll. In addition, data from the Integrated Accounting 7e software may be
copied and pasted into most modern spreadsheet programs (e.g., Excel) for further analysis and
processing for a variety of other accounting related applications. Likewise, reports generated by
the software may be copied and pasted into most modern word processing programs (e.g., Word,
Works) for use in company reporting or presentations. Your students are not required to have
access to spreadsheet or word processing software in order to use Integrated Accounting 7e.
Spreadsheet and word processing activities are optional; however, if you have this software, it is
recommended that your students complete these optional activities.
Integrated Accounting 7e has been designed specifically for use in an educational
environment. The software has been designed to include many of the same features and
capabilities of comparable commercial accounting packages without many of the complexities
and without the need to store the voluminous amounts of data required by a typical commercial
package. For example, in a business it would be impo