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Bentley College AIS Term Project

Bentley College AIS Term Project. Joe Gelinas. AIS Course Objectives. Explain how information systems—particularly accounting information systems—can assist in attaining organizational objectives.

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Bentley College AIS Term Project

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  1. Bentley CollegeAIS Term Project Joe Gelinas

  2. AIS Course Objectives • Explain how information systems—particularly accounting information systems—can assist in attaining organizational objectives. • Describe operational and information functions of several major business processes and their financial components (e.g., accounts receivable, accounts payable). • Be able to document business processes. • Work as a team, research technical topics, and deliver oral and written communications.

  3. Business Process Focus • “Its all about business processes” • Includes management, operations, and information system • Enterprise Risk Management – objectives, risks, risk responses (including controls) • Process flow, process activities, control objectives, key controls

  4. Project Learning Objectives • Examine an actual business process. • Document the process using a narrative, table of entities and activities, context diagram and systems flowchart. • Analyze measures that are in place to control the process and its data. • Recommend changes to the process, such as additional controls, to improve operational and information process effectiveness.

  5. AIS Roadmap – Text, Class and Project AIS Text Introduction, qualities of info, decision making (Chapter 1) Enterprise systems, E-Commerce (Chapters 2 and 3) Documenting BPs (Chapter 4) Controls (Chapters 7-9) BPs (Chapters 10-14) AIS Project Scope and questions (Part 1) BP description and documentation (Part 2) Controls analysis, recommendations (Part 3) Report and executive summary (Part 4) AIS course and other background “Conducting interviews” Auditing Alchemy, Inc. SAP “How to make a presentation” “Executive summaries” BP = Business process

  6. Project Part 1:Proposal • Scope and purpose of project • Client • Process to be analyzed • Interview questions • Work Plan • Client Agreement Form

  7. Project Part 2:Process Documentation • Company description • Mission and objectives • Competitive challenges • Business process overview • Process contribution to organizational objectives • Physical environment, hardware, software • Process narrative, table of entities and activities, context diagram, systems flowchart

  8. Project Part 3:Class Presentation • Describe organization and process • Describe and analyze controls • Client recommendations

  9. Project part 4:Final Deliverable • Executive summary • Revised documentation • Control matrix • Controls analysis • Managerial recommendations • Client response

  10. Materials • Teaching Note (week-by-week description) • Project requirements (student handout) • Four PPTs (three workshops and roadmap) • Team sign up, client agreement, student evaluation of class presentations, partner evaluation, two control matrix templates • Interview handout, sample executive summaries • Grading forms (all four parts)

  11. Conclusions • Project has been successful for 25 years • The project IS the course (see roadmap) • Parts can be used: • Process documentation • Controls assessment • Communications intensive course • Teams are essential

  12. Questions?

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