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• ACC 564 Entire Course
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• ACC 564 Week 1 DQ 1 Value of Information and DQ 2
  AIS
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• ACC 564 Week 2 DQ 1 Evaluation of Documentation
  Tools and DQ 2 David Miller
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• ACC 564 Week 2 Assignment 1 Information Needs for
  the AIS (2 Papers)
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• ACC 564 Week 3 DQ 1 Attacks and DQ 2 Revamping
  the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) 

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• ACC 564 Final Exam Part 1
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• ACC 564 Final Exam Part 1
• Course Accounting Info Systems 
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•  Question 1 .
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•  An accounting information system (AIS) processes
  ________ to provide users with ________.
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• . Question 2 .
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•  Paid time-off policies, job descriptions, and
  procedures manuals are examples of information
  needed to support key decisions in what business
  process?

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• ACC 564 Final Exam Part 2
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• ACC 564 Final Exam Part 2
• Question 1
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• In the ________ stage of an operational audit,
  the auditor measures the actual system against an
  ideal standard.
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• Question 2
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• An auditor finds that employee absentee rates are
  significantly higher on Mondays and Fridays than
  on other work days. This is an example collecting
  audit evidence by

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• ACC 564 Week 1 DQ 1 Value of Information and DQ 2
  AIS
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• ACC 564 Week 1 Discussion Questions
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• Week 1 Discussion 1
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• "Value of Information"  Please respond to the
  following
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• Firms realize that in order to make money, they
  have to invest money. This can be attributed to
  the information that the firm relies on. As
  discussed in the text, there are seven
  characteristics of useful information. From the
  first e-Activity and assuming that you are  CFO
  of  University, identify the top-three
  characteristics you would rely on the most for
  improving the profitability of the firm.

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• ACC 564 Week 2 Assignment 1 Information Needs for
  the AIS (2 Papers)
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• ACC 564 Week 2 Assignment 1 -
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• Assignment 1 Information Needs for the AIS
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• In 1967, Russell Ackoff presented a classical
  analysis of misinformation in management
  (Ackoffs Management Misinformation Systems, Case
  1-2, located in your Blackboard course shell).
  Now, you need to fast-forward to the present.
  After reading the case, craft your own version of
  misinformation in management by developing five
  (5) key incorrect assumptions that management
  makes about its accounting information systems.

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• ACC 564 Week 2 DQ 1 Evaluation of Documentation
  Tools and DQ 2 David Miller
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• ACC 564 Week 2 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 2 Discussion 1
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• "Evaluation of Documentation Tools"  Please
  respond to the following
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• You have been assigned to analyze the accounting
  information for a Fortune 500 corporation. From
  the e-Activity, evaluate which tools you would
  use to analyze its business processes, indicating
  your rationale.

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• ACC 564 Week 3 DQ 1 Attacks and DQ 2 Revamping
  the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
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• ACC 564 Week 3 Discussion Questions  
• Week 3 Discussion 1
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• "Attacks"  Please respond to the following
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• You have been hired by the CFO of  University to
  develop a plan to protect its accounting and
  financial systems at a reasonable cost. Suggest a
  high-level plan for the CFO. Provide support for
  your suggestion.

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• ACC 564 Week 3 Quiz 1
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• Question 1
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• A well-designed AIS can improve the
  decision-making function within the organization.
  Which statement below would describe a
  limitation, rather than a benefit, of an
  efficient AIS?                                    
         
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• Question 2 
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• The transaction cycle that includes the events of
  hiring employees and paying them is known as
  the                                             

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• ACC 564 Week 4 Assignment Hacking the AIS (2
  Papers)
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• ACC 564 Week 4 Assignment 2 -
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• Assignment 2 Hacking the AIS
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• Due Week 4 and worth 240 points
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• In todays technology environment, hackers
  present a substantial risk to a firms accounting
  or business system. As the result of these
  attacks, firms suffer huge losses, ranging from
  financial losses to losses in confidence by
  consumers, creditors, and suppliers. Firms may
  have made a significant investment in financial
  and non-financial resources to secure these
  systems.

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• ACC 564 Week 4 DQ 1 The Cloud Effect and DQ 2
  Securing Data
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• ACC 564 Week 4 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 4 Discussion 1
• "The Cloud Effect"  Please respond to the
  following
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• Many firms are relying on cloud computing, also
  known as the cloud, to perform key business
  functions. By moving transactional processing to
  the cloud, firms are exposing themselves to
  additional attacks as well as to tighter scrutiny
  from regulators and stakeholders. From the
  e-Activity, assume that you are the CFO of
  Amazon.com. Create an argument indicating how
  your firm will be able to balance the needs of
  security with the desire of being a dominant
  player in the global market.

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• ACC 564 Week 5 DQ 1 Integrity vs. Availability
  and DQ 2 The 21st Century Auditor
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• ACC 564 Week 5 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 5 Discussion
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• "Integrity vs. Availability"  Please respond to
  the following
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• In the global enterprise, firms are insistent
  that their accounting information systems (AIS)
  and other key systems are available 100 of the
  time, and that these systems are the highest in
  integrity. Evaluate how a firm manages the
  balance of high availability with high integrity
  in these days of tight budgets and additional
  oversight from regulators.

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• ACC 564 Week 5 Quiz 2
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• ACC 564 Week 5 Quiz 2
• Question 1
•             Illegally obtaining and using
  confidential information about a person for
  economic gain is known as        
                         
• Question 2
•             The deceptive method by which a
  perpetrator gains access to the system by
  pretending to be an authorized user is
  called                           
• Question 3
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•             Developers of computer systems often
  include a user name and password that is hidden
  in the system, just in case they need to get into
  the system and correct problems in the future.
  This is referred to as a                          
    

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• ACC 564 Week 6 DQ 1 Revenue Cycle and DQ 2
  Expenditure Cycle
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• ACC 564 Week 6 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 6 Discussion 1
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• "Revenue Cycle"  Please respond to the following
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• From the e-Activity, examine the steps necessary
  to complete a sale and discuss how the sales
  order process is integrated with other processes
  (credit and collections, delivery, etc.).
  Indicate your overall satisfaction with the
  process.

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• ACC 564 Week 7 Assignment 3 Fraud in the AIS (2
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• ACC 564 Week 7 Assignment 3
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• Assignment 3 Fraud in the AIS
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• Due Week 7 and worth 280 points
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• For this assignment, research the Internet or 
  databases to locate a firm that was involved in a
  fraud and / or embezzlement case.
• Explain how the firms accounting information
  system (i.e., components and functions)
  contributed to the fraud and / or embezzlement.
  You will need to focus on how each component /
  function of the accounting information system
  failed, which resulted in the scandal / case.

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• ACC 564 Week 7 DQ 1 Professional Service
  Organizations and DQ 2 General Ledger and
  Reporting Systems
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• ACC 564 Week 8 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 8 Discussion 1
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• "Relational Databases"  Please respond to the
  following
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• From the e-Activity, assess the advantages and
  disadvantages of the continued use of the
  traditional relational database and then decide
  if businesses should be moving toward relational
  databases in the cloud. Justify your decision and
  provide specific examples to support your
  response.

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• ACC 564 Week 8 DQ 1 Relational Databases and DQ 2
  The REA Data Model
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• Week 8 Discussion 1
• "Relational Databases" Please respond to the
  following
• From the e-Activity, assess the advantages and
  disadvantages of the continued use of the
  traditional relational database and then decide
  if businesses should be moving toward relational
  databases in the cloud. Justify your decision and
  provide specific examples to support your
  response.
• Determine whether a company has an ethical
  obligation to share with external clients that
  key information about them is being stored in the
  cloud. Speculate how external clients would react
  if they were told in advance or it was kept from
  them and they found out another way.

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• ACC 564 Week 8 Quiz 3
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• ACC 564 Week 8 Quiz 3
• Question 1
•             A validity check is an example of
  a(n)                                  
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• Question 2
•             ________ involves copying only the
  data items that have changed since the last
  partial backup.                           
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• Question 3
•             Data matching is an example of
  a(n)                         

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• ACC 564 Week 9 DQ 1 Systems Analysis and DQ 2 AIS
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• ACC 564 Week 9 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 9 Discussion 1
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• "Systems Analysis"  Please respond to the
  following
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• Implementing a  AIS system could prove to be
  beneficial or detrimental to an organizations IT
  infrastructure. Assess the risks associated with
  integrating a  AIS system and suggest what
  management can do to minimize those risks.

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• ACC 564 Week 9 Quiz 4
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• ACC 564 Week 9 Quiz 4
• Question 1
•             Shandra Bundawi is a new graduate who
  has been hired by an old-line, family-owned
  furniture manufacturing company in the northeast.
  She has been asked to analyze the company's
  accounting information system and to recommend
  cost-effective improvements. After noting that
  the production and sales departments use database
  systems that are entirely separated, she
  recommends that they be combined. Implementation
  of her recommendation would benefit the company
  by contributing to data                           
         

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• ACC 564 Week 10 Assignment 4 Changing the AIS (2
  Papers)
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• ACC 564 Week 10 Assignment 4
• Assignment 4 Changing the AIS
• Due Week 10 and worth 320 points
• Migrating to a accounting information system is
  not an easy task. Many firms have struggled with
  this process, even though our textbook makes the
  process seem quite straightforward. Recently, IBM
  recapped some of the lessons learned in migrating
  to a accounting information system within the
  federal government. These lessons can be applied
  to any accounting information system project.

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• ACC 564 Week 10 DQ 1 Implementation and DQ 2
  Operation
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• ACC 564 Week 10 Discussion Questions  
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• Week 10 Discussion 1
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• "Implementation"  Please respond to the
  following
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• You are the manager of a payroll system. Your
  company is going to replace the legacy payroll
  system with a more robust, Web-based version.
  Suggest two approaches that would minimize
  downtime and interruption to the payroll process.
  Provide specific examples to support your
  response.

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• ACC 564 Week 11 DQ 1 Looking Back and DQ 2
  Looking Ahead
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• ACC 564 Week 11 Discussion Questions
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• Week 11 Discussion 1
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• "Looking Back"  Please respond to the following
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• The AICPA would like for you to deliver a speech
  at one of its upcoming conferences on the future
  of accounting information systems. From the first
  e-Activity, select one conference and formulate
  the takeaway message and key points that you
  would want your audience to remember from your
  speech.

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