INF2004F :: Information Technology in Business

Course Introduction

Course Status
INF2004F is a first semester half course for all accounting and finance students not majoring in Information Systems (IS).

Pre-requisites
Successful completion of INF1002F/S/H and ACC1006F/S or equivalents.

Course Description
In accordance with the guidelines of leading International professional bodies eg. IFAC, SAICA, etc., professionals and students must acquire essential IT knowledge and skills. INF2004F as an IT-oriented course is designed to prepare accounting, finance and other students for various IT related roles eg. as users, managers, designers and evaluators of Information Systems. This course is specifically designed together with Foundations of Information Systems (INF1002F/S/H) and Control of Financial Information Systems (ACC2018S), to cover the current Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ board (PAAB) Business Information Systems (BIS) syllabus. INF2004F contains the following modules:

• Introduction to Pastel Accounting
• IT and the Accountant
• Software Acquisition and Process Modelling
• Computer Crime and Security
• Data modeling and Business Intelligence
• Business Processes and Enterprise software

Course Objectives

On completion of the course students should be able to:

• Use an computerised accounting package (Pastel) to process accounting information
• Discuss the role of IT in business and it’s impact on corporate strategy
• Understand how IT can be used to improve process efficiency, support management decision making, and enable business innovation
• Describe the role of managers and users in the acquisition of applications software
• Understand the importance of IT security and controls.
• Use a spreadsheet to analyse business data and answer “what if” questions
• Understand how organisations manage their data resources
• Use business intelligence software to provide management information
• Understand the technical, business and control implications of doing business over the Internet
• Use process models to document business activities
• Understand the architecture of enterprise systems and how various functions in enterprise systems work together
  
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