Case 4 Jane works for a business that publishes a monthly magazine. It is her responsibility to make sure that the business has the correct information systems to meet its needs. Jane realizes that the business needs a system to track employee hours, calculate deductions and taxes, generate paychecks, and produce data for year-end reports. Such a system is an example of a(n) ____.
A) decision support system
B) management information system
C) transaction processing system
D) expert system

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The described system is a transaction processing system (TPS) because it is processing and tracking transactions related to payroll processing such as employee hours, deductions, and generating paychecks. A decision support system (DSS) provides information to support decision-making, a management information system (MIS) provides information for managing an organization, and an expert system is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to solve problems in a specific domain. None of these fully match the described system's purpose.

Case 4 Jane Works for a Business That Publishes a Monthly