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| In the REA data model, the people and organizations that participate in events and about whom information is desired. |
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| Property of a database relationship indicating the number of occurrences of one entity that may be associated with a single occurrence of the other entity. Three types are one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. |
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| defining a database so that it faithfully represents all key components of an organizations environment. The objective is to explicitly capture and store data about every business activity the organization wishes to plan, control, or evaluate. |
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| The item about which information is stored in a record. |
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| In the REA data model, a business activity about which management wants to collect information about planning for control purposes. |
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| The maximum number of instances that an entity can be linked to the other entity in the relationship. |
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| The minimum number of instances that an entity can be linked to the other entity in the relationship. |
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| The data model used to design AIS data bases. REA is an acronym signifying that the data model contains information about three fundamental objects; resources, events, and agents. Resources represent identifiable objects that have economic value to the organization. Events represent an organizations business activity. Agents represent the people or organization about which data are collected. |
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| Those things that have economic value to an organization such as cash, inventory, supplies, factories, and land. |
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