An understanding of the steps involved in comprehensive systems development. A knowledge of documents and reports generated by information systems, as well as the basic procedures employed in processing a variety of business transactions and accounting applications. A basic familiarity with a wide range of controls employed in processing a variety of business transactions and accounting applications. These topics have been selected because they are likely to have the greatest impact upon professional accountants in an age of rapidly developing technology, increasing specialization, and heightening social and economic awareness. With this framework and body of knowledge, you should be prepared to enter a career in accounting that will require you to be an effective user, evaluator and designer of information systems.
Several themes are dominant throughout the course.
First, information is needed in an enterprise as much for managerial decision making as for the support of daily transaction processing and the satisfaction of demands from outside the enterprise. Second, computers and related developments in information technology are transforming the features of an ever-growing number of information systems. Fourth, people represent another key resource on an enterprise and are critical to the success and failure of its information system. The lecture will assume that you have done this. You can adequately learn the course content only if you attend class.