This course is designed to prepare learners for a successful accounting career whether you enter public practice, industry, or government. All of leaners will be users of accounting information systems. In addition to being users, some of leaners will become managers. Others will be internal and external auditors, and some will become consultants. Regardless of any role, leaners will need to understand how accounting information systems work in order to effectively measure how cost-effectively the perform, to assess their reliability and that of the information produced, or to lead the redesign and implementation of new and better systems.
This course provides a basic knowledge of how accounting information systems function in today’s business environment. It emphasizes the internal control feature necessary to produce accurate and reliable accounting information systems as it looks at how accounting information is recorded, summarized and reported in both manual and computerized systems. The following topics are covered in this course: accounting information system introduction, systems documentation techniques, data storage and processing methods; file processing; internal control; information system control; data security and integrity; accounting transaction cycles; revenue cycle applications; expenditure cycle applications and how to develop the accounting information systems.