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Textbooks:
Accounting
Information Systems
by James A. Hall, 3rd edition: Southwestern
Publication, 2001,
ISBN
#0 324 07089 6
Concepts
in Enterprise Resource Planning
by Joseph Brady, Ellen Monk and Brett Wagner: Thomson
Learning, 2001, ISBN# 0 619 01593 4
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
To
provide an introduction to business process integration
including the concepts and techniques underlying the
development, use, and control of Enterprise Resource Planning
Systems. Students
will learn how to: (I) Analyze and discuss the characteristics
and limitations of accounting information.
(II) Utilize, criticize, and design frameworks for the
collection, processing, and presentation of accounting data
and information, taking into consideration situational
limitations, and to map existing systems. (III) Evaluate, create, and revise organizational structures
appropriate to information systems, and internal controls.
(IV) Explain the function of the components of SAP
modules and respond to actual or potential problems involving
the presence of interrelationships between such modules. (V) Develop an understanding of the role Enterprise Resource
Planning Software plays in integrating the functional areas of
business.
This
course employs a case methodology in conjunction with hands-on
experiences in the SAP information system environment to
support the analysis, documentation, and implementation of
student developed integrated business process solutions.
Class
Procedures, Grading, And Requirements
This course is divided into two parts.
One part will provide the framework to analyze the
Information systems a company uses to monitor financial
performance and make financial decisions. The other part is project based development of Management
Accounting Systems and will involve students in the planning
and design of a computer based Accounting model to improve a
firm’s financial and managerial accounting decisions.
Graded
Group and Individual Assignments: There will be a continuing case throughout the course that
will be analyzed in groups.
This case will require students to answer a series of
questions about the SAP system.
A final report will be prepared by each group and
shared with the client. The
grading of this case will be determine by group members and by
the instructor.
Homework:
The assignment schedule lists exercises from the text
that will be demonstrated in class to illustrate concepts and
procedures. Each
student is expected to have these problems completed before
coming to class so that they can participate in class and
evaluate their understanding of the material.
The assignments may be changed throughout the semester
through announcements in class.
Students are responsible for these changes whether or
not they were present in class.
Exams
and Make-up Quiz Policy: There will be three exams throughout the semester.
The only make-up possibilities for these exams are for
the university-sponsored extracurricular events and illnesses
fully documented by a doctor’s note.
Summary
of Grading Components and Grade Scale:
Component:
Points
SAP
Module Exercises
50
Class
presentations
50
Quizzes
(4 @ 25 each)
100
Midterm
Exam
100
Final
Exam
100
Total
Points
400
Final
letter grades will be determined on a standard scale where:
A
=
372 to 400 points
A
- =
360 to 371 points
B
+ =
348 to 359 points
B
=
332 to 347 points
B
- =
320 to 331 points
C
+ =
308 to 319 points
C
- =
292 to 307 points
C
=
280 to 291 points
D
+ =
268 to 279 points
D =
252 to 267 points
D- =
240 to 251 points
F
=
Below 240 points
Academic
Integrity
Graded
Group Assignments: All work is to be performed exclusively by the members of the
group and all group members must contribute their fair share
to each assignment. If
outside research is performed, sources are to be cited and
information discovered via outside research is to be clearly
labeled as such. If
outside research is performed, the products of your research
are NOT to be shared with any student who is not a member of
the group.
Examinations:
All quizzes and examinations must be the exclusive
work of the individual student.
Penalty
for academic integrity violations: University-recommended sanctions for academic integrity
violations will be imposed.
All academic integrity violations will be reported to
the Office for Student Life.
Cheating or plagiarism will result in failure in the
course.
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