Courses Handbook 2010

11942 (v.2) Accounting (Information Systems) 531


Area: School of Accounting
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): OR
312348 (v.1) Accounting (Financial) 520 or any previous version
Syllabus (HB): Students will gain practical knowledge and experience in the following areas: accounting information systems and the accountant; documenting accounting information systems; computer crime, ethics and privacy; internal control systems; computer securityand controls for accounting information systems; accounting information systems and business processes; accounting enterprise software; data modelling; organising and manipulating data in databases; electronic commerce and the internet. Students will alsogain experience in setting up data files, posting transactions, and producing reports, using QuickBooks Pro, a fully integrated computerised accounting package.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 080100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2         Y
2010 Sydney Campus Semester 1S Y        
2010 Singapore Campus Trimester 1A Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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