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Unit Synopsis
Accountants are increasingly expected to be competent in their understanding of complex business processes and information systems used in organisations. This unit will provide you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to understand and use such Accounting Information Systems throughout your career. You will develop knowledge in accounting systems and business processes, basic system documentation tools, database management, fraud and other threats, as well as appropriate internal controls. You will also investigate and study technological developments in areas such as transaction processing, visualisation methods and business intelligence. Finally, you will develop technical competence in productivity software, such as spreadsheets, visualisation tools and accounting software.
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 ACCT11081 Introductory Financial Accounting MGMT11169 Business Analytics 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 |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024
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) | 10% |
| 2. Practical Assessment | 40% |
| 3. 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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This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 16.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.95% response rate.
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:
- Distinguish fundamental concepts and the role Accounting Information Systems play in achieving organisational objectives
- Evaluate business processes and apply relevant methods to design and document AIS processes
- Assess the risk of fraud, abuse and unethical practices and identify methods to mitigate such risk
- Demonstrate skills in using software to analyse, visualise, record and report accounting transactions.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Practical Assessment | • | |||
| 3 - Examination | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | ||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |