Undergraduate - UnitAFP2851 - Business information and systems

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Accounting and Finance
Offered	Peninsula First semester 2013 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit focuses on how knowledge workers deploy information systems and technology to generate knowledge that creates business value for organisations. These systems provide the information required for operational, tactical, and strategic decision making, and information flows that cross national and inter-organisational borders, and assist organisations with innovative and strategic initiatives and reporting. Topics covered include: the core business processes found in organisations; transaction processing systems; enterprise systems; database management; systems development and documentation methods; internal controls; e-business; and decision support at the individual knowledge worker and organisational level.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

examine the role of information technology and business systems in analysing and providing decision support to knowledge workers
examine the core business processes common to most businesses
explain the design of business information systems to enable businesses to execute business processes quickly and efficiently
develop examples of business information and decision support systems to assist knowledge workers in management and decision making activities, using an industry standard database and/or spreadsheet
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with business information and systems and demonstrate in individual summative assessment tasks the acquisition of comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFP2851.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Peter Krueger

Contact hours

One 6.5 hour problem based workshop per week

Prerequisites

AFP1000

Prohibitions

AFC2160, AFC2851, AFF2051, AFF2851, AFW2051, AFW2851, BUS1060, BUS3030