306-106 Business Process Analysis

Students may not gain credit for both 306-106 Business Process Analysis and 615-150 Organisational Processes.

306-108 Accounting Transactions and Analysis or 306-104 Accounting 1B.

The objective of this subject is to provide students with a broad introduction to core business processes that underpin organisational business activities and the role and operation of information systems associated with these. In particular, the subject will discuss methods for documenting business processes and information systems (principally data flow diagrams and system flowcharts); internal controls for business processes and information systems; core business processes associated with revenue, expenditure, production transaction cycles and business reporting.

• High level of development: collaborative learning; problem solving; team work; interpretation and analysis; critical thinking; evaluation of data and other information; use of computer software.

• Moderate level of development: oral communication; written communication; application of theory to practice; synthesis of data and other information; accessing data and other information from a range of sources; receptiveness to alternative ideas.

A 3-hour end-of-semester exam (50%), assignments totalling not more than 4000 words (40%) and class participation (10%). Satisfactory completion of this subject requires a 50% pass in the end-of-semester examination.

U J Gelinas, S G Sutton and J E Hutton, Accounting Information Systems, 6th edn, South-Western College Publishing, Cincinatti, Ohio, 2005.