Information Processes & Control

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2013:

Estimated total time commitment of 120 hours per semester

ACCT90004 Accounting for Decision Making or equivalent (may be taken concurrently with this subject).

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements for this entry.

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This subject introduces students to the key business and financial processes underpinning organisational business activities and the role and operation of information systems in supporting these business processes.

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Analyse the need for business strategy and explain how strategy influences the need for business process information;
• Prepare business process documentation;
• Prepare plans to achieve an adequate level of internal control;
• Describe and evaluate business processes;
• Evaluate, analyse and interpret the efficacy of business processes and their related enterprise information systems.

• Group assignments totalling not more than 4000 words (40%)
• One 3-hour end-of-semester examination (60%)

You will be advised of prescribed texts by your lecturer.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:

• Oral and written communication;
• Collaborative learning and team work;
• Interpretation and analysis of real-world cases;
• Problem solving.