Managing the Euro in Information systems

This book provides in-depth information about the complex conversions that will be incorporated into information systems, including coverage of the key topics triangulation, avoiding rounding errors, the effect on price points, and converting historical data.

Moving beyond the math, this book helps you gain a perspective on the euro's overall impact on your organization and how information systems must respond. Patrick O'Beirne explains the euro's effect on business activities such as sales and marketing, procurement, supply-chain coordination, and human resources. The author also examines how the euro will affect business accounting, providing detailed coverage of profit margins, pricing, invoicing, taxes, and other topics.

Finally, Managing the Euro in Information Systems presents strategies for successful implementation. It will guide your efforts to assess your organization's situation, to determine which systems will be affected, to devise appropriate strategies for the changeover, and to plan the specific steps and timing of the changeover process.

Table of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Economic and Monetary Union and the Euro
Chapter 2: General Business Issues
Chapter 3: The Effect on Business Operations
Chapter 4: Conversion Calculations
Chapter 5: IT Strategy and System Change Choices
Chapter 6: IT Project Planning
Chapter 7: 1999 and 2000 and All That
Chapter 8: How to Do It Right the First Time
Chapter 9: PC Desktop and End-User Applications
Chapter 10: The Euro and US Companies
Chapter 11: Euro Changeover Scenario for a Small Business
Appendix A: How to Display and Print the Euro Symbol
Appendix B: Industry Surveys
Appendix C: The Leclerc Experiment
Appendix D: Case Study: Cascade Designs Ltd.
Appendix E: Notes, Coins, and the Euro Sign
Appendix F: EMU Product and Service Suppliers
Appendix G: Commission of the European Communities Legal Framework for the Use of the Euro
Appendix H: Further Reading
Index