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Financial Accounting sub-system: Implementation approach

' ... {So you've got a data model?} Mmm, yes, it's not complete, sufficient, I mean it looks nothing like that. But since then as I waved at you before Clare we've got a more real true one produced in SE, but yes it has. And that's one of the things we need to present next week, the data model and the technical design as far as it goes. There's also a not very instructive flow diagram I think. {I mean this is labelled data model, I would have called this, this looks like a } data flow diagram {a data flow diagram} Absolutely, I'd agree with you. Where's the data model. ...

It's screens and reports and the hard sums where I think.. {What it didn't have before, the thing I saw before had the screens but it didn't have anything on sums which is the thing that really worried me.} That worried me as well because it has lots of stuff on hard sums which is the stuff near the start now, ... ..whether it's enough I don't know ... If I'm asked by the likes of Mr Neville why does the whole thing have to take so long and I say, because what you do Neville is very complicated and to convert it into exact accounting numbers is very complicated and {so this is still at quite a high level isn't it? There's still quite a lot of scope in here for inprecision that's what I'm really getting at} You're going to make me nervous again, but yes, yes.'

X075 page 004.04 (tape 02.2.01b) Colin Notes/Tape 17/02/95

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