HA2042 – Accounting Information Systems Assignment 2 Due: 5pm Friday, Week 11 You are to prepare a submission to satisfy your client’s requirements as outlined below. You are required to investigate the issues at Pressure Hydraulics and provide a feasibility study into the improvement to their current business processes. You will need to conduct an investigation into the client’s problems and evaluate a solution to meet their business needs. Overview – Pressure Hydraulics Pressure Hydraulics is a locally owned business that currently has three service centres; Newcastle, Toronto and Maitland. Each service centre provides maintenance and specialised servicing of hydraulic systems as used in cars, trucks and earth moving equipment. The Maitland service centre also provides a specialty service to the mining industry where two purpose built trucks go onsite to service a range of mining equipment. The business has become quite profitable in the past years and its owner, Allan Taylor, has devised plans to expand by opening service centres at Coffs Harbour and Gosford. Allan has future plans for other service centres along the east coast of NSW. He also feels that the time is right to look at how IT can support the existing business and enable his future business plans. Currently, Allan spends a portion of each day at each service centre to monitor its operations. This is leaving little time to continue developing his business and he realises he will not be able to spend the same sort of time in the Coffs Harbour and Gosford service centres. Existing System Each service centre operates as an independent business, with eight technicians in the workshop (one of whom is a workshop foreman) and one office assistant. The office assistant takes phone calls from people requesting quotes for work or to have work done. For requests on quotes, the office assistant looks up a hard copy of a price book (known as The Price Book) and gives a verbal quote. Allan is unhappy with the time…