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Unit Synopsis
This unit is designed to provide you with knowledge of the role technology plays in collecting, recording, storing and communicating accounting information. You will integrate your knowledge of accounting information systems and internal control techniques to analyse and evaluate existing and proposed systems. Control principles and procedures which prevent unethical practices such as computer fraud and abuse are also examined.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: ACCT19084 and COIS11011 Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Online Quiz(zes) | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 3. Practical Assessment | 10% |
| 4. Examination | 50% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student evaluation
Students were not satisfied with feedback received from he UC.
An increased effort will be made to provide written feedback and to communicate with students regarding assessment feedback. Channels such as emails and CQU Success will be used.
There was an increase in use of CQU Success and Discussion Forum posts to keep engaged with students.
Source: Student evaluation
Weekly recordings were late
An increased effort will be made to ensure workshop recordings are made available shortly after the workshop.
Recordings were released on time, however, the casual UC posted them to lecture resources folder, hence this issue was reported again. Students were notified, and were able to locate the recordings.
Source: Student evaluation
Limited information provided relating to final exam
From 2024 the final assessment will be open book and online. Detailed advice will be provided to students relating to the assessment.
Final assessment is now open book. Students were kept informed of the process.
Source: SUTE comments
Some students mentioned that some questions were not from the lecture slides.
Clearly inform students that they need to supplement lecture content with readings from the related chapters in the prescribed textbook.
In Progress
Source: SUTE comments
Some students were not happy with the management of the unit, e.g availability of recordings, timeous provision of feedback
Unit was taught by a sessional lecturer. Going forward this unit is being taught by a full time staff member and such administration issues will not occur.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Identify the role of AIS and internal controls in producing quality financial information
- Describe the fundamental concepts of database systems
- Compare the control frameworks for an AIS and critically evaluate their effectiveness on the internal control environment
- Discuss the ways and remedies of unethical practices relating to computer fraud and the issues relating to systems reliability
- Apply the knowledge of AIS to solve problems relating to key business decisions
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | |||
| 4 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | ||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 4 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||