IBM 1130 User Manual page 25

INTRODUCTION
Since the cornerstone of your installation effort,
planning, is now complete, the time to begin docu-
menting is at hand.
If
you were going to remodel a building, it would
be very important to have the plans of the structure
on which you would be working. You could, of
course, do the job without the plans, but much time
would be wasted in trial and error as you proceeded.
The same situation exists when you are convert-
ing an application to the 1130. Proper documenta-
tion of the present system will guide you rapidly and
efficiently into the new solution. Rather than
spending your time" rediscovering" the old proce-
dures, you can spend it in improving them.
Depending on whether you are converting from a
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manual system or a punched card system, one of the
following two subsections will help you plan this
phase of your preinstallation effort:
Documentation of Manual
Systems (10. 10. 00)
Documentation of Punched
Card Systems (10.20.00)
These introductory subsections are followed by a
discussion of the ways in which your current ac-
counting controls can be documented (10.30.00).
Questionnaires used for documenting manual sys-
tems are then illustrated (10.40. 00).
A payroll example, which is used also in later
sections, is introduced in 10.50.00. This consists
of:
Job description
Survey forms
Sample documents
Systems flowchart