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| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Term3 | Term3 |
| Melbourne | N/A | Term3 |
| Online | Term3 | Term3 |
| Perth | N/A | Term3 |
| Sydney | N/A | Term3 |
Unit description
Designed to prepare the student for a career in business, this unit focuses on the relationships between business processes, information flows and information technology and how these interact and communicate with an organisation's management. It also explores the governance, control and security issues in the business processes and within the information system.
Unit content
- System fundamentals and business processes
- Database concepts and systems development
- Technology concepts and system mapping and documentation
- Internal controls
- Transaction cycles
- Systems auditing, governance and ethics
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | define what an accounting information system is, and describe the basic functions it performs |
| 2 | identify and explain the concepts of sound internal control surrounding input, processing and output controls, audit trails, data integrity, security and backups |
| 3 | identify and explain the business activities performed in the major business cycles and the flow of accounting data and information in those systems |
| 4 | recognise and explain the threats to effective and efficient performance of those processes and the applicable control procedures for dealing with those threats, and the key decisions that need to be made and the information needed to support those decisions |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- define what an accounting information system is, and describe the basic functions it performs
- identify and explain the concepts of sound internal control surrounding input, processing and output controls, audit trails, data integrity, security and backups
- identify and explain the business activities performed in the major business cycles and the flow of accounting data and information in those systems
- recognise and explain the threats to effective and efficient performance of those processes and the applicable control procedures for dealing with those threats, and the key decisions that need to be made and the information needed to support those decisions
Prescribed texts
- Parkes, A, Considine, B, Olesen, K & Blount, Y, 2018, Accounting Information Systems, 5th edn, John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd, Milton, Queensland. ISBN: 9 780730 369134 (Printed Textbook with E-Text).
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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