The authors focus on the following topics:\nInformation Systems\n*Contribution of IS/IT to organisations\n*Systems concepts and attributes\n*Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS\n*Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP\n*Software application for HR and other areas\n*Legislation and Security\n\nFinance\n*Sources and application of funds\n*Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets\n*Interpretation of accounts - management ratios\n*Costing and budgeting\n\nStatistics\n*Sources and uses of statistics\n*Presentation of statistics\n*Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests\n*Use of current software for computation of statistics