St. Cloud State University

College of Business

Department of Accounting

ACCOUNTING 388: Accounting Information Systems and Control

SPRING 1995

DR. JOHN CHEH

OFFICE : BB 207, PHONE 255-4881 OR 255-3038 (MESSAGE)

PREREQUISITES

Accounting 293 with a grade of C or better, and BCIS 148 (or MCS 302), and BCIS 340.

OBJECTIVES

Completion of this course will help you participate in management, evaluation, design, and controls of accounting information systems.

Office Hours and Others:

Class Time: 10:00 A.M. TO 11:50 A.M (For Section 1) or 1:00 P.m. to 2:50 P.M. (For Section 2) (Monday and Wednesday)

Office Hours: 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. (Monday, Wednesday) and 1:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. (Tuesday) OR BY AN APPOINTMENT.

Computer Lab: 2nd Floor (BB 220 and 221), Business School Building.

For your AIS field project, professional quality of printing is expected.

Required and Recommended Textbooks:

1) Accounting Information Systems, Second Edition, by E. L. Summers (1991 Houghton Mifflin Company), and

Process Reengineering: The Key to Achieving Breakthrough Success, by Lon Roberts (1994 ASQC Quality Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin),

Introduction to AS/400, by Robert W. Janson, (1994 Boyd and Fraser).

2) A course package, containing lecture notes, sample exams, and other materials, may be obtained.

3) Recommended Textbooks: A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker (1993, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press).

Additionally Recommended Lecture Notes, Textbooks and Software:

Our Learning Resources Center has solutions to questions and problems, articles, and others related materials for this class. It is easy to find them using PALS. To find, for instances, Peter Drucker's article in PALS, you may type as follows: SYS=>res cheh drucker

Grading:

AIS Field Project: 30: 1 Assignment

AS/400: 50: 2 Computer Projects

Peachtree: 20: 1 Computer project

Midquarter Exams: 300: 2 exams

(No makeup midquarter exams)

Final Exam: 100: 1 exam

(No makeup final exam)

Total 500 points

No makeup midquarter exam nor makeup final exam will be given except for reason of illness or other verified emergencies.

1) -5 points can be deducted for each missed session.

2) LATE SUBMISSION OF ANY PROJECTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

3) You need to bring a large name card every session so that all of us can recognize you. The name card can be creative and unique.

LEGEND: (1) S: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS BY SUMMERS, (2) R: PROCESS REENGINEERING BY ROBERTS, (3) J: INTRODUCTION TO THE AS/400 by JANSON,and (4) R &S: AUDITING BY RITTENBERG AND SCHWIEGER.

TENTATIVE COURSE PLAN, ASSIGNMENTS AND OTHERS



DATE                 CHAP & OTHERS   TOPICS               HOMEWORK                                   



3/13/95              CH. 1,2,17(S)   An Overview,         1: 14,19                                   

                Organization,        2: 1,2,18,38                               

Decisions,           17: 52,58,61                               

Information and                                                 

AIS Design                                                      



3/15/95              CH. 1(J)        System Overview      Lab Ex.: BEEHIVE                           

                and Architecture     Review questions                           

                                                                                



3/20/95              CH. 2(J)        PDM and SEU          Lab Ex.: BEEHIVE                           

                                     Review questions                           

                                                                                



3/22/95              CH. 3(J)        Control Language     Lab Ex.: BEEHIVE                           

                                     Review questions                           

                                                                                



3/27/95              CH. 4(J)        Object Security and  AS/400 Assignment: CH. 4 (J) Lab Ex.       

                Authorization                                                   

FIELD PROJECT                        Start working on Field Project.            

CH. 1-4(R)                                                                      

Reengineering                                                   

Framework                                                       



3/29/95              CH. 5(J)        Database Management               Lab Ex.: BEEHIVE              

Review questions              

AS/400 Assignment CH. 4(J) Lab Ex. Due   



4/3/95               CH. 6(J)        Data File Utility    Lab Ex.: BEEHIVE                           

Lab Review questions                       



4/5/95               FIRST                                                                           

                     MIDQUARTER                                                                      

                     EXAM                                                                            



4/10/95              CH. 7 (J)       Query                AS/400 Assignment: CH. 7(J) Lab Ex.        



4/17/95              CH. 5,6,8,9     Reengineering        Working on Field Project                   

(R)             Analysis and Design                                             

                                                                

AS/400 Assignment CH. 7(J) Lab Ex. Due     





4/19/95, 4/24/95,    CH. 6,7,8(S)    AIS, Sales,          6: 65,70,72                                

4/26/95, & 5/1/95                    Receivables,         7: 4,7,9,33,51,54,59,70,74                 

                Purchases &          8: 3,6,15,22,31,50                         

                Payables                                                        

FIELD PROJECT                                                                   

PEACHTREE                            FIELD PROJECT DUE ON 4/30/95               

PEACHTREE LAB Ex.: COB LAB                 



5/3/95               CH. 12(S)       Accounting &                                                    

                Processing Controls                                             

                                                                                

                                                                                

PEACHTREE                            PEACHTREE LAB Ex.: COB LAB                 

PEACHTREE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT               



5/8/95               SECOND                                                                          

MIDQUARTER                                                                      

EXAM                                                                            



5/10/95              CH. 12(S)       Accounting &         12: 4,6,7,8,14,25,36,50,51,56,58,64,65,66  

                Processing Controls                                             

                Control Risk                                                    

CH. 9(R & S)    Assessment           9: 26-35                                   

                Computer Security                                               

CH. 13(S)       Control & Risk                                                  

                                           

PEACHTREE PROJECT DUE                      



5/15/95              CH. 13 (S)      Computer Security    13: 2,3,9,11,17,28,47                      

                Control & Risk                                                  

Exam  Review                                                                    

                                           



5/17/95              CH. 13(S)       Computer Security    13: 2,3,9,11,17,28,47                      

                                     Control & Risk                                                  

EDI                                                                             



Discussion on                                                                   

AIS, Field                                                                      

Project, and                                                                    

Reengineering:                                                                  

What did we                                                                     

learn?                                                                          



5/23/95 (Section 1)  FINAL EXAM                                                                      

from 10:00                                                                      

A.M. to 11:50                                                                   

A.M.                                                                            



5/25/95 (Section 2)  FINAL EXAM                                                                      

from 1:00 A.M.                                                                  

to 2:50 P.M.