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• BSA 500 All Assignments
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• BSA 500 Week 1 Individual Business Systems Table
• BSA 500 Week 2 Individual Business Processes
• BSA 500 Week 2 Team Business Study Paper, Part

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• BSA 500 Entire Course (May 2020)
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• BSA 500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types
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• BSA 500 Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to
  Business Needs
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors Influencing
  Business
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Team Assignment Ethics in IT
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Assignment Business Process
  Re-engineering

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• BSA 500 Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to
  Business Needs
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• Calibri an online clothing retailer with over
  1,000 employees has experienced rapid growth over
  the past 18 months. This growth has strained its
  IT capacity, and leadership suspects that some of
  its IT solutions arent scalable and wont
  support the company going forward.

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• BSA 500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• Consider 2 to 3 business systems that you have
  seen, are interested in, or have been a part of.
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• Review the Week 1 section in the Course Notes,
  which lists common types of businesses in the
  U.S. sole proprietorship, partnership, limited
  partnership, limited liability partnership,
  limited liability company, corporation (Inc.),
  C-corporation, and S-corporation.

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• BSA 500 Week 1 Individual Business Systems Table
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• BSA 500 Week 1 Individual Business Systems Table
• Create a table in Excel or another tool that
  compares and contrasts your search on the
  Internet for examples of the types of
  technologies currently used in the field or
  industry that you work in or plan to pursue. For
  example, if you are planning a career in
  accounting or finance, you should become familiar
  with financial systems such as Oracle Financials.
  For a career in logistics or distribution,
  research supply chain management (SCM) systems.
  If marketing appeals to you, research customer
  relationship management (CRM) systems, blogs,
  marketing, and social networking.

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• BSA 500 Week 2 Assignment Business Process
  Re-engineering
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• Note You will be referring to this completed
  assignment later in the Week 3 assignment.
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• For this assignment, you are a business IT
  consultant. You have been contracted by a
  nationwide taxi service called Carz. The company
  is looking to modify its service delivery to be
  more competitive. They want you to examine the
  feasibility of adopting elements of the Uber and
  Lyft delivery services, and produce a business
  process re-engineering plan.

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• BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors Influencing
  Business
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• Read the Week 2 section in the Course
  Notes, which lists various influences on business
  due to economic, governmental, legal, and
  environmental factors.
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• Which of these influences do you believe has the
  most potential to affect an organization? Why?
  Share a specific example from the textbook, the
  web, or your own experience to support your
  reasoning.

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• BSA 500 Week 2 Individual Business Processes
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Individual Business Processes
• Review the Business Process Model Diagram for
  Taxi Service.  (Figure 2.2 in Business Driven
  Information Systems).
• Write a 1- to 2-page paper addressing the
  following questions assuming this diagram needs
  to be modified to represent an online
  transportation model (such as Uber)
• What swim lanes need to be added to the diagram?
• What processes need to be added to the diagram?
• What advantages does the online transportation
  model offer in comparison to a traditional taxi
  service?
• Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files
  tab.
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Team Assignment Ethics in IT
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• Ethically questionable or unacceptable use of
  information technology includes individuals who
  hack into others systems and steal information,
  organizations that collect and use information
  without checking its validity or their right to
  use it, and employees who destroy or steal
  proprietary information.
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• Research an organization that recently
  experienced an IT-related ethics breach. (Your
  team could also come up with a scenario of a
  breach based on instructor assigned topics.)
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Team Business Study Paper, Part 1
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• BSA 500 Week 2 Team Business Study Paper, Part 1
• Select a publicly-traded information technology
  company with available financial information to
  use for the Team Assignments in Weeks Two through
  Six. Suggested business types include software
  product companies, IT related professional
  services and consulting, and technology solution
  providers.

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• BSA 500 Week 3 Assignment Applying Business Data
  and Intelligence Strategies to Business Systems
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• Note This assignment builds on the assignment
  you completed in Week 2.
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• For this assignment, you are part of a data
  auditing team. In anticipation of adapting their
  process to be more like Uber/Lyft (and less like
  a traditional taxi service), Carz has retained
  you to analyze the data associated with the
  re-engineered business process you submitted
  earlier.

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• BSA 500 Week 3 Discussion Software Application
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• Many software applications are moving from a
  download-and-own model to an online subscription
  model. For the business consumer, what are the
  advantages and disadvantages of this new model?
  Is the model more suited to some types of
  applications or uses compared to others? Why or
  why not? 

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• BSA 500 Week 3 Individual The Value of Data
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• BSA 500 Week 3 Individual The Value of Data
• Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the
  following
• Provide an example of the type and nature of
  business data (for your current employer or
  projected industry career you want to pursue)
  that fits each of the five common characteristics
  of high-quality information (see Ch. 6
  of Business Driven Information Systems). Types of
  data should be broken out into functional areas
  (for example, client demographics, sales data,
  historical data, service provider data)

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• BSA 500 Week 3 Team Business Study, Part 2
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• BSA 500 Week 3 Team Business Study, Part 2
• Create a 1-page table or chart, using the company
  that your Team agreed on, that lists the
  companys business systems and identifies those
  that should be integrated with the companys
  accounting system.
• Note The final version of this draft will be
  included in the Business Study Paper due in Week
  Six.
• Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files
  tab.

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• BSA 500 Week 4 Assignment Analyzing and Aligning
  Financial Systems with IT
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• For this assignment, you are a financial IT
  consultant asked to analyze financial statements
  and, based on the data they contain, recommend IT
  solutions that align with the companys financial
  and related data requirements.
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• To complete this assignment
• Use the University Library to locate a balance
  sheet and an income statement from a publicly
  traded company of your choice, such as Facebook,
  Shutterfly, or another company.

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• BSA 500 Week 4 Discussion Choosing an Information
  System
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• Its extremely important for organizations to
  choose information systems that support their
  accounting, financial needs, and processes so
  they can understand and use those systems and
  train employees effectively.
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• In what ways can irregularities in financial
  reporting (intentional or unintentional) cause
  problems for a business?
• Share an example from the textbook, the web, or a
  personal experience. What was the overall impact
  on the organization? What could the organization
  have done differently that would have prevented
  the problem or mitigated the damage?

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• BSA 500 Week 4 Individual Balance Sheet and
  Income Statement Commentary, Part 3
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• BSA 500 Week 4 Individual Balance Sheet and
  Income Statement Commentary, Part 3
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• Select one of the three publicly traded companies
  you chose in Week 2.
• Obtain current balance sheets and income
  statements for your selected company using
  Company Overviews and Financials in the
  University Library

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• BSA 500 Week 4 Team Assignment Analyzing
  Financial Documents
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• Read the Week 4 section in the Course Notes,
  which includes a section on how to access and
  interpret financial information for any publicly
  listed company of your choice.
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• Imagine your team has been asked to determine the
  financial health of a specific company and
  present your findings to the companys
  leadership.
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• BSA 500 Week 4 Team Business Study Paper, Part 3
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• BSA 500 Week 4 Team Business Study Paper, Part 3
• Complete a 1-page summary of the teams selected
  companys balance sheet and income statement.
• Note This analysis will be included in the Team
  Business Study Paper due in Week Six.
• Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files
  tab.
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• BSA 500 Week 5 Assignment Exploring Enterprise
  Solutions
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• For this assignment, you are a systems consultant
  who has been contracted by Entertainment2U a
  streaming media company. In its infancy,
  Entertainment2U offered clips of movie trailers
  along with discussion boards curated by film
  critics and experts. Visitors to the
  Entertainment2U site contributed reviews and
  ratings used to construct demographic-specific
  recommendations with payment tiers. Thanks to
  acquisitions, the site grew quickly and began
  including crowdsourced reviews and ratings of
  online news and entertainment outlets, hardcopy
  books and magazines, videos, music, and games.

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• BSA 500 Week 5 Discussion SCM Software
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• SCM software allows companies to integrate
  business systems for the acquisition of raw goods
  all the way through to the manufacture and
  distribution of products made with those raw
  goods.
• What do you think the benefits of a dedicated SCM
  solution, such as Halo or Logility, are compared
  to solutions that integrate SCM with other
  functions, such as SAP SCM?
• What are the risks and drawbacks of each approach?

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• BSA 500 Week 5 Individual Calculate Key Financial
  Ratios, Part 4
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• BSA 500 Week 5 Individual Calculate Key Financial
  Ratios, Part 4
• Resource Any two of your selected organizations,
  located in Ch. 17, Understanding Accounting and
  Financial Information, of Understanding
  Business.
• Calculate the current and past five years
  financial ratios for the two selected companies
  and compare them to another company in the same
  industry.
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• BSA 500 Week 5 Team Assignment Aligning
  Enterprise Solutions with Business Needs
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• Enterprise information systems, sometimes
  referred to as enterprise-wide information
  systems, is a relatively broad category of
  software applications designed to support
  organizational goals that cross functional
  boundaries. For example, CRM affects functions
  ranging from marketing and customer acquisition
  to sales, production, and accounts receivable, so
  CRM, solutions fall into the enterprise
  information system category.
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• BSA 500 Week 5 Team Business Study Presentation
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• BSA 500 Week 5 Team Business Study Presentation
• Your team has been asked to prepare a
  presentation for the executive leadership of your
  selected company.
• Create a 6- to 8-slide multimedia-rich
  presentation of the data you gathered in the team
  assignments in Weeks Two though Five.
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• BSA 500 Week 6 Assignment Applying Project and
  Risk Management Strategies
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• For this assignment, imagine that you are
  preparing to interview for a job with a
  consulting firm that specializes in IS project
  management.
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• You have been asked to author a Frequently Asked
  Questions (FAQ) list to bring to the interview.
  The purpose of the FAQ is to demonstrate to the
  hiring manager that you
• Understand key project management concepts and
  strategies,

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• BSA 500 Week 6 Discussion Project Management
  Approaches
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• Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
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• Two popular project management approaches are
• The waterfall approach
• Best suited for well-defined projects with scope
  and details that arent expected to change, such
  as a project to upgrade existing hardware for all
  customers
• The agile approach

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• BSA 500 Week 6 Individual Project Management
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• BSA 500 Week 6 Individual Project Management
• Choose one of the following options for your
  individual deliverable this week
• Option 1 
• Write a 2- to 3-page response to the following
  situation
• Assume you are preparing for an interview for a
  job with a consulting firm that specializes in
  information systems project management. One of
  the key questions you need to prepare for is

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• BSA 500 Week 6 Team Final Business Systems Paper
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• BSA 500 Week 6 Team Final Business Systems Paper
• Review the materials from the Team assignments
  from Weeks Two through Five.
• Consolidate and submit your completed work from
  previous weeks and include a 1-page executive
  summary of the organizations financial state.
• Include the necessary accounting systems
  components and the systems that should be
  integrated to the accounting system.
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