Undergraduate Course: Accounting Information Systems (ACCN10024)
Course Outline
| School |
Business School |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Accounting |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
Foundational concepts: nature of accounting information and accounting information systems, systems theory, agency, transaction cost, contingency, structuration, information and communication theories, the C-T-M hypothesis, accounting system design theories, programming language design, systems analysis and development, issues in accounting information systems.
Practial concepts: use of a simple programming language (e.g. DQL) design and use of relational database (e.g. DataEase) in constructing financial and management accounting systems.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
Visiting students should have studied the equivalent of year 3 level courses: Advanced Financial Accounting AC0017, Auditing AC0018 and Management Accounting Applications AC0019. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Subject specific skills: developing accounting specific IT projects, managing specification, feasibility and analysis and abstraction stages and constructing simple, concept demonstration, applications
Knowledge and Understanding: Students will develop an understanding of complexity creation and management in information systems development. Students will also develop a technical knowledge of simple programming and relational database query language programming. While students will also develop a knowledge of theory they will also understand that current theory is not well developed and that there are many practice/theory gaps.
Cognitive Skills students will develop critical and reflective systems planning and design skills and will be challenged by the level of complexity that they will have to deal with to create even simple working systems.
Key skills: developing planning and design skills, recognising the importance of needs and risk based design, understanding how simple systems generate massive complexity and recognising how systems methodologies attempt to manage complexity and risk, having the cross-field knowledge to span the user-developer gap..
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Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by means of an individual assessed computer lab based project counting for 30% of the overall marks awarded and a final written examination will account for the remaining 70%. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr Tom Brown
Tel: (0131 6)50 8333
Email: T.Brown@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Ruth Winkle
Tel: (0131 6)50 8335
Email: Ruth.Winkle@ed.ac.uk |
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