This course is designed to introduce a variety of topics about the systems used by a company to process its accounting information. The course focuses on automated accounting information systems as a tool to understand and integrate processes, process activities and data, perform analysis, and create information to facilitate managerial decision-making.

This course aims to:

1. provide students with knowledge of the nature and role of accounting information systems in a business;
2. prepare students to identify internal control risk and suggest appropriate controls within an accounting information system;
3. develop students’ ability to model business processes and create accounting information database;
4. develop students’ knowledge of different business processes, including sales/collection, acquisition/payment;
5. develop students’ knowledge of new information technology development and its application in business.