1. Advanced Accounting Information Systems Summer 2011
ACG 6415
Advanced Accounting Information Systems
Summer 2011

2. What to Expect Learning the concepts of AIS Part I
“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

3. Syllabus Highlights Office: BA1 432 Dr. Steven Hornik
Course Webpage:
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 4:30 – 5:45; and by appointment
Office: BA1 432 IM
Use Meebo Widget in Wikispaces

4. Text Book The Accountants Guide to XBRL 5th ed., by Clinton E White
Available only at
Systems Analysis and Design Wiki
Chapter 2, 9 and 18
Get A Gliffy Account – Web Based Modeling tool

5. Grade Components Exam 1 (Data Models) 200 Exam 2 (XBRL) 200
Business Process Model (Group) 50
XML Assignment (6)
Participation (Wiki)
Total Points

6. Grading Scale A 4.00 100-93 A- 3.75 92-90 B+ 3.25 89-86 B 3.00 85-83
F 0.00 <59

7. Participation Lecture’s HW / Cases Wiki
Be In Class, Ask Questions, New Technology
HW / Cases
Be In Class, Prepared to discuss
Wiki
Quality of posts

8. Exams Multiple choice Matching Short-answer
Problem solving / model building

9. 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

10. WikiSpace Click “Join” button Collaborative Web Pages Material
Pick a username that will allow me to assign participation points
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.

11. Wiki Pages to Update Accounting Systems Data Modeling XBRL
New page, create one!

12. Deliverables Read SAD Wiki chapter 9 Signed course agreement
Due May 19th
Form Groups

13. Group Assignment Teams of 5 Project requirements: Implemented via Wiki
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