I am creating a data entry "flow" so have a virtual assistant interview my new client and enter data we need. I use MS Access and I do this myself, just going from table to table. My data, of course, is organized into tables with a variety of relationships - one to many, many to many, etc. I am having trouble with the approach in organizing a flow of input forms for a contractor/virtual assistant to use. I know this is vague, but I am after organizing principals. Thanks.
It is vague, true, but I understand the concept of logical data flow. In the U.S. Navy it was a way of life for contractors.
The solution to your problem requires you to stand back and imagine that you had to do this on paper using paper-based forms. To be blunt, IGNORE the tables. They are confusing you. You don't care what they contain. (You really don't - at this level.)
Look at what you would have to do with the current process that you are trying to streamline. What form comes first and what do you do with it? Then what form comes second, third, fourth - and what data manipulation is required after each form? Data manipulation might be simply copying some important number to the top of another form. It might be a computation, a total, an average, ... doesn't matter what it is. What matters is that you KNOW what has to be done for the process if you didn't have a computer.
Don't look at the data. Look at the real world process. You aren't implementing data. You are implementing a process.