What to Expect Learning the concepts of AIS “Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself” (old Chinese proverb) Applying the concepts (Group Case) “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing” (Aristotle) Part I Documenting AIS DFD’s Flowcharts Part II XBRL What is it Basic skills Readings/Discussions
Syllabus Highlights Dr. Steven Hornik Course Webpage: Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 3:00 – 4:00 ; and by appointment Office: BA1 432 IM Use Meebo Widget in Wikispaces
Text Book The Accountants Guide to XBRL 5th ed., by Clinton E White Available only at Systems Analysis and Design Wiki Chapter 2 and 9 Get A Gliffy Account – Web Based Modeling toolGliffy
Grade Components Exam 1 (Data Models)200 Exam 2 (XBRL)200 Business Process Model (Group) 50 XML Assignment (6?) 60 Participation (Wiki) 25 Total Points535
Grading Scale A A B B B C C C D D D F 0.00 <59
Participation Lecture’s Be In Class, Ask Questions, New Technology HW / Cases Be In Class, Prepared to discuss Wiki Quality of posts
Exams Multiple choice Matching Short-answer Problem solving / model building
General Course Objectives You will be expected to prepare models of business processes, specifically: Data Flow Diagrams Flow Charts Gain Understanding of XBRL XML XBRL UBL and XBRL-GL Secondarily, to become consumers of information related to new technology
WikiSpace Invitation or Click “Join” button Join if you haven’t Collaborative Web Pages You can Add material to any page You can Edit material already posted to a page You can Delete material posted to a page You can Create a new page with new material Material text content Hyperlinks WebPages, Podcasts, Video, Audio, etc.
Wiki Pages to Update Accounting Systems Data Modeling XBRL
Deliverables Read SAD Wiki chapter 9 Signed course agreementcourse agreement Due January 18th Form Groups
Group Assignment Teams of at least 5, no more then 6 Project requirements: Brief Description of a Process Detailed Narrative of a Process E & A Table Data Flow Diagrams (context, level-0, and level-1) Flow Chart Implemented via Wiki Process will come from Process Classification Framework 13