Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Patent
1995-06-07
1998-08-25
Weinhardt, Robert A.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
705 7, 705 8, G46F 1760
Patent
active
057992860
ABSTRACT:
An automated activity-based management system and method (10) for making thereof are provided. A business organization has costs associated with its employees, facilities, equipment, and overhead to produce products or provide services. Such a business organization typically generates traditional general ledger accounting information (152) and human resources information (150). This traditional accounting information (150, 152, 154) is used along with information directed to activities, equipment usage and facilities utilization to generate costs associated with activities performed by the organization. A computer workstation (40) with a graphical user interface (42) is used to accept entries of activity information (74). The activity information and traditional accounting information are fed to a relational database (12). The information is processed and costs associated with the employee, facilities, equipment, and overhead components (20, 22, 24, 26) of activities are computed. User-definable ad-hoc reports as well as preformated reports for trending, forecasting, comparison, benchmarking, and budgeting purposes are generated.
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Bradford William Howell
Johnson Terry Lee
Keefer Leah Ellen
Mason Eric Todd
Morgan James Joseph
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Graff Phillip
Griebenow L. Joy
Jeang Wei Wei
Weinhardt Robert A.
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