BA 4570 - Accounting Information Systems

• Understand the primary information flows within a business organization
• Gain familiarity with the documentation techniques used for representing manual and computer-based accounting information systems
• Understand the related concepts of transactions cycles
• Gain familiarity with the various types of electronic systems used for transaction processing
• Identify the functional departments involved in the revenue, expenditure and conversion cycles
• Understand the risks associated with the various transaction cycles and recognize the controls that reduce risks

• Enterprise resource planning

• Introduction to accounting information systems
• Systems documentation
• Business and ecommerce
• Auditing IT and business processes management
• Computerized internal control systems and process management and financial reporting
• Risk management compliance and controls
• Warehouse management
• Electronic reporting systems
• Bid data and data mining
• Emerging technologies