INF2004F
:: Information Technology in Business
Course Introduction
INF2004F is a first
semester half course for all accounting and finance students not majoring in
Information Systems. The course provides students with the necessary
grounding in Information Technology in Business. Students will be exposed to
the activities needed to plan, organize and control information system
development and will gain practical experience in the development and
application of control measures, analysis of ICT related risks, effective
use of estimating techniques and in the assessment & reporting of project
progress.
Course Administration
For all administrative enquires (incl. workshop registrations,
medical certificates etc.) contact Yoemna Mosaval (Leslie Commerce,
Room 4.11, tel. 650-4670, e-mail <
Yoemna.Mosaval@uct.ac.za
>).
The course convenor is Prof Mike Kyobe (Room 4.10, e-mail
Michael.Kyobe@uct.ac.za).
Lectures may be given by Mike Kyobe and Dr. Eric Cloete.
Deliverables for INF2004F
Students are required to attend three lectures per week on
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday.
Students are required to form groups of four (4), to
select a time slot for the Friday evaluation sessions, and to hand
in a Team Submission Form, and a signed Team Contract
by the end of week 1 (16h00 on Friday 23 Feb 2006). Students who do not form
part of a group will be allocated a group by Administrative staff.
Similarly, groups who do not select a time slot will be allocated a time
slot by Administrative staff.
Student groups of 4 will be required to complete five tasks (three
evaluation sessions [Tasks 1-3], and one printed Business Plan [Task 4]).
In Tasks 1, 3 & 4, students are expected to implement appropriate control
measures in their deliverables. In Task 2, students will have to identify
potential control weaknesses in the systems and suggest how these could be
minimized or eliminated. Tasks will be handed out on 26 February, 12 March,
26 March and 16 April.
Students are required to attend all three evaluation sessions
where they will present the completed tasks, and the work will
be evaluated. The evaluation sessions have been scheduled for approximately
two weeks after the tasks have been handed out, on 9 March, 6 April and 27
April. Please note that ANY of the four students in the group may be
requested to present, or to explain an aspect within the presentation. Note,
all marks are for answers, there are no marks for effort, time spent etc.
only answers receive marks.
Students are required to submit a printed group Business Plan
[Task 4] (maximum 6 pages). The printed copies are due by 12h00 on Monday 14
May 2006. Each Plan must be handed in as a printed (not handwritten)
paper copy to Yoemna Mosaval, AND an electronic copy
emailed to
Yoemna.Mosaval@uct.ac.za
the electronic copies of the Business Plan must be named as follows:
BP-student number1-student number2-student number3 ..
Students are required to write a two hour mid-semester test
on Tuesday 17 April 2007, and a final three hour examination
in June. Check on the exact dates, times and venues.
In addition, there
will be a compulsory 10 minute quiz every week during the tutorial
session. This will be done on-line and results provided the following day.
Students are expected to attempt ten (10) quizzes during the semester. The
time and venues for tutorials will be announced.
Course Assessment
Plagiarism and
copying will NOT be accepted
, and will be reported to the Head of Department and the
Dean for action. All cases of Plagiarism will be reported to the Vice
Chancellor, who may decide on further action.
Overall Assessment will be made up of
a year mark (see the breakdown in the block below), plus a final examination
mark. A minimum of 45% is required in the final examination.
- Three Group Evaluations (5% each)
[Tasks 1-3] -- 15%
- 10 Quizzes (1.5%
each) -- 15%
- Group Business Plan [Tasks 4] -- 5%
- April test (17th
April, 2007) -- 15%
- Final Examination -- 50%
Students, who fail to write the
April examination and provide a valid medical certificate, will have their
final examination count 65% of their mark.
Setwork
- Gelinas, Sutton & Hunton (2005), Accounting Information systems, 6th
Edition, Thomson, ISBN 0-324-22099-5
- Chapter 1-8 of Gelinas, Sutton & Hunton cover the bulk of the course
Plagiarism
The Department of Information Systems
considers plagiarism to be the deliberate passing off of
another persons work as though it was your own, and will
NOT be tolerated. At the very least, you would get zero
for your work, and we would request that you withdraw from the
Information Systems major.
Since so much of the course mark is
awarded for work done outside of our direct control, a great deal of trust
is involved. We therefore view plagiarism in the same way as we do cheating
in examinations. Similar rules apply to all student work such as projects,
essays and other assignments.
Some examples of what we would
consider to be plagiarism are:
You downloaded material from the Internet and submitted it as your
own work
You downloaded material from the Internet and copied whole
paragraphs or pages of text into your assignment, but you edited them
slightly so they fitted in. You might have written other parts of the
assignment yourself, but chunks of it are made up of copied material.
You found a few articles or books that really say everything you need. You
designed the structure of the assignment yourself and wrote quite a bit of
it. But one or two sections are almost word-for-word from the
articles or books you used. You did this because they said things in a way
you felt you could not improve upon.
You acquired assignments from previous years students and used them in the
manner described above.
Someone else wrote all (or part of) the assignment or project for you,
either as a favour or for some kind of reward.
So what would the consequences
of plagiarism be?
At the very least, you would get
zero for your assignment, you will have to appear before
the Head of Department, and we would request that you withdraw
from the Information Systems major. In cases where blatant copying
has taken place, we would take disciplinary action, which could result in
suspension or expulsion from the University.
What is acceptable to the
Department of Information Systems?
Part of the objective of the course
is for you to find lots of other material. All we ask is that you use it in
an ethical, honest and scholarly way. This requires you to be able to
analyse and discuss a broad selection of the material you found (not just
one or two articles), and that you reference the material you use!
Acceptable use of another persons
material at undergraduate level means that the assignment structure, layout
and contents are all your own work. AND
You used no more than one directly quoted paragraph per page, and you
referenced the author in the manner described in the Departmental Writing
Guide
You used ideas, phrases, concepts, diagrams and statements already stated
by others, but you rewrote them in your own words AND you referenced them
You have quite a lot of references on each page, but they are taken from
several different sources. (If they are all from the same source, then you
have relied too heavily on that source!)
Disclaimer
While every effort has been made to
be as accurate as possible on this webpage, it sometimes happens that
changes occur particularly dates. If in doubt, please check with Mike Kyobe
or Yoemna Mosaval.
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