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ACCT 5342 ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS - FALL SEMESTER 2005
Last Updated September 20, 2005

Bob Jensen Retired on May 14, 2006.
This is no longer a current syllabus.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Information

Preliminary Course Activities

Notes and Paths to Files

Helpers

Assignment Date Hotlinks Are Shown Below:

Week 01 August 29

Week 02 September 5

Week 03 September 12

Week 04 September 19

Week 05 September 26

Week 06 October 3

Week 07 October 10

Week 08 October 17

Week 09 October 24

Week 10 October 31

Week 11 November 7

Week 12 November 14 

Week 13 November 21

Week 14 November 28

Week 14 December 5

Week 15 December 12

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Preliminary Information

Professor Jensen is in his office most every day of the week.  You see him during office hours or at most any other time.  You may also schedule an appointment by sending an email request to  rjensen@trinity.edu

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Required Textbook: A Web Based Electronic Book M&G, Accounting Information Systems, by Uday S. Murthy and S. Michael Groomer (Cybertext Publishing, 2005).   In order to take the required online quizzes every week, you must purchase a password for this book prior to the first class.   You may purchase a password and book at http://www.cybertext.com/  

Required Textbook: ISBN/ISSN: 0-324-22701-9 P&S = Perry and Schneider, Building Accounting Systems Using Access 2003, by James T. Perry and Gary P. Schneider (Southwestern Publishing Company, 2005). 

Grades will be determined on the basis of percentage components as follows:

 16% --- On-Line M&G weekly Quizzes

 24% --- Examination 1 plus class quizzes and other assignments 

 20% --- Examination 2

 40% --- Final Examination

100% --- Total Possible 

The grading scale will be approximately as follows: 90%-100% = A Range; 80%-89% = B range; 70%-79% = C range; below 70% = F. Class participation and attendance are important and will be considered as subjective elements of your final grade, particularly in borderline cases.

All students are covered by a policy that prohibits dishonesty in academic work.  The Academic Integrity Policy (AIP) covers all students who entered Trinity before the fall of 2004.   The Academic Honor Code covers all those who entered the fall of 2004 or later.

The Integrity Policy and the Code share many features:  each asserts that the academic community is based on honesty and trust; each contains the same violations; each provides for a procedure to determine if a violation has occurred and what the punishment will be; each provides for an appeal process.

The main difference is that the faculty implements the AIP while the Code is implemented by the Academic Honor Council.   Under the Integrity Policy, the faculty member determines whether a violation has occurred as well as the punishment for the violation (if any) within certain guidelines. Under the Code, a faculty member will (or a student may) report an alleged violation to the Academic Honor Council.  It is the task of the Council to investigate, adjudicate, and assign a punishment within certain guidelines if a violation has been verified.

Students who are under the Honor Code are required to pledge all written work that is submitted for a grade:  “On my honor, I have neither given nor received any unauthorized assistance on this work” and their signature.  The pledge may be abbreviated “pledged” with a signature.

Dr. Sandlin wrote the following Excused Absence Policy and requested that all accounting instructors in graduate courses adopt the following policy.

Excused Absence Policy

Master of Science in Accounting Program

 The Master of Science in Accounting policy regarding absences from graduate classes is as follows:

 The final grade (on a 100-point basis) will be reduced by three points each time a class that meets once a week is missed as the result of an unexcused absence and by one and a half points each time a class that meets twice a week is missed as the result of an unexcused absence.

 Examples of unexcused absences include, but are not limited to, absences resulting from studying for other exams, finishing term papers, working, or engaging in non-emergency related travel. 

Trinity University rules and regulations spelled out in the Student Handbook fully apply to this course.

All in-class Jensen quizzes will be graded.  However, your lowest quiz score will be replaced by the percentage-weighted score earned on the final examination.  For example, if you had a zero grade on a 20 point quiz and a 90% grade on the final examination, the lowest quiz score will be replaced by 18 points.  If the lowest quiz score is greater than its replacement alternative, the quiz score will not be replaced.    Students who have more than one absence excused by Professor Jensen will be assigned make-up projects that are not particularly fun projects.  Unexcused absences result in a zero quiz score.

Students who leave class prior to a quiz will have to take a zero or do assigned projects.  Leaving class early is highly discouraged.  Students may not ask request answers to possible quiz questions in class prior to the quiz.  However, students may seek help before the class from Professor Jensen or the teaching assistants.

None of the Murthy and Groomer on-line quiz scores will be replaced.  If you are going to be absent from class, you must take that week's on-line quiz before the class date.  No credit will be given for any on-line quiz taken after the due date.

Professor Jensen is in his Chapman 313 office most every day of the week.  You see him during office hours or at most any other time.  You may also schedule an appointment by sending an email request to  rjensen@trinity.edu

Student Teaching Assistant Michelle Roberts

Tuesday 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM in Computer Lab of the Main Floor of the Trinity Library

Sunday 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Computer Lab of the Main Floor of the Trinity Library

By appointment at michelle.roberts@trinity.edu

The above graduate assistant will be available to help students in private appointments or student partner appointments  (please schedule via email) in the Computer Lab on the main level of the library.

In ACCT 5342 we will be working with some large databases.  You probably will not need the free encryption service.  But you will love the YouSendIt free mailing service.  Below you will see how you can send huge databases and video files to your home computer.

Below are two modules from the August 26, 2005 edition of Tidbits --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

I love the YouSendIt service that does not require zip or any form of file compression.  You can learn how to use YouSendIt in less than a minute.

This is a good way to send video files!
August 23, 2005 message from Scott Bonacker [lister@BONACKERS.COM]

 

This company says that you can upload large files to their server and email a link to download the file, all for free.

http://www.yousendit.com/ 

Does anyone have experience with this company?

I currently use filesanywhere.com for something similar, but that is a paid service. A few more bells and whistles to be sure though.

Scott Bonacker, CPA
Springfield, Missouri

Jensen Comment: 
I experimented with this by sending a 200 Mb video file to myself.  It is a fantastic free service that can be used when the file you want to send is too large to attach to an email message.  It will take a file up to 1 Gb without even having to zip or otherwise compress the file. 
 

My students will find this useful for sending large database files to their home computers.

You do not have to send the file by email to YouSendIt.  All you have to do is provide the recipient's email address and the file on your computer that you want to send.  You do not even have to supply your own name or your own email address.  The recipient then receives a message that he/she has seven days in to download the file.  YouSendIt will not store the file beyond seven days.
 

I cannot vouch for the security of data stored by YouSendIt.  If you are sending sensitive data such as credit card numbers or a book draft that you've not yet secured a copyright number, then I suggest that you encrypt the file before sending it.  There are various options for encryption.  For example, most database programs like MS Access have encryption utilities in the software itself.  Another encryption alternative (free) is described below.

Free encryption software
From the T.H.E. Journal Newsletter on August 25, 2005

Preliminary Course Activities

Introduction

Accounting Information Systems introduces students to the systems that underlie bookkeeping, accounting, financial reporting, tax reporting, and auditing in all business firms.  Such systems are increasingly complex and in a continual state of flux do to rapidly changing technologies and security risks.

ACCT 5342 for the first six weeks will probably require twice as much time per week as your other courses.  However, the time demands for the course will diminish in the second half of the semester when the workloads of your other courses increase.

There are three basic assignments that apply to each week for the first six weeks and carry on to a lesser extent after that:

1.       Students must print and supply written answers to the “Possible Exam (Quiz) Questions” linked each week to the course syllabus at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/acct5342.htm
Your answers will be checked each week by either a graduate assistant or the course instructor.  These written answers will be available to you on the “open-note” portions of examinations.  How well you do on an examination depends heavily upon having the answers to the assigned questions each week.  In most cases, the hint to each question will guide you to the answer.  Sometimes the answers can be found in your Perry and Schneider textbook that you must purchase from the bookstore.  Note that in Fall 2003, there is a new edition of that book such that used copies probably will not suffice for assignments this semester.  You may work with your assigned partner each week when filling out the answers to these questions.  However, you must maintain your own notebook of answers.  Each week either your assigned teaching assistant or the course instructor must view your notebooks in order to detect students who are not keeping up in the course. 

2.       Most every week beginning in Week 2, you will be required to take an online quiz for a chapter from the online textbook by Murthy and Groomer.  This book is not in the bookstore.  Students should immediately obtain a password and print the first three chapters of the book entitled Accounting Information Systems: A Database Approach.  You can purchase a password at
http://www.cybertext.com/forms/accountform.shtml
You will then be able to access the book and the online quizzes at any time using the book list at http://www.cybertext.com/
Each week students are to take an online quiz in the presence of an assigned student partner who then signs the attest form at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/attest.htm
The online quizzes are relatively easy if you take notes while reading the assigned chapter.  You may use your notes for each quiz.  However, you may not view a copy of the entire chapter will taking a quiz.

3.       The project of the course consists of weekly assigned CPA examination questions.  This project was chosen following student requests the more of the curriculum be devoted to preparation for the CPA examination.  Each week beginning in Week 2, students will make a short presentation explaining two assigned questions from prior CPA examinations.  In addition, students are asked to create two questions that they think might appear on a CPA examination.  Top grades for the projects will be given to students who show evidence of having researched the answers to provide complete explanations.  Answers are not necessarily contained in the course textbooks.  Students will have to do Web searches in many instances.  At the end of the course students must turn in completed projects.  Your assigned questions can be found on the TigerNet path
J:\courses\acct5342\ProjectAssignmentsfFall203

Immediate Assignment

All accounting graduate students are required to join a listserv called Jensen-b.  This listserv enables any student to send a message to all other graduate accounting students.

The discussion group for our class is called Jensen-b. To sign up for it, you need to send an email message to listproc@trinity.edu. You don't need a subject heading. The only line in the body of the message should be this:

subscribe Jensen-b Your Name

(where of course "Your Name" is your name!). You should get a confirmation message indicating that you've been signed up.

After that, if you want to send a message to the group, just send it to Jensen-b@trinity.edu

To join the listserv, navigate as follows:

1.       Go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/its/

2.       Click on the link in the lower left corner to “Lyris List Manager.”

3.       Click on Business Administration.

4.       Click on Jensen-b

5.       Join Jensen-b

Preparation for the First Class in ACCT 5342

Because the Labor Day holiday falls on a Monday, the first class meeting in ACCT 5342 is delayed one week.  However, students should begin immediately on the Class 2  assignments that can be found  at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/class02.htm
You should commence to meet with your assigned partner(s) for Class 2.  Each week thereafter you will be assigned a new partner.  Note that Class 2 assignments need not be completed until Class 2, but you should commence working on these assignments immediately.

You should commence reading as ahead as far as possible in both your P&S and your M&G textbooks.  In particular, study the first two chapters of your M&G textbook before the first class meeting.

Always back up your working files while you are working on a computer and always keep a master copy of your work in your living quarters. It is easy to lose computer discs, so always have back up copies of your work. Also, there are possible power outages and computer viruses on campus computers. I suggest that you back up the files you are creating or changing at least every 30 minutes while you are on a computer.

A problem arises because MS Access requires (for certain actions like query creation) that users have write as well as read rights to a hard drive containing a database. Students do not have write privileges to Drive J. Also there is a problem that the new MS Access on the Windows NT lab machines requires database conversion on most databases.

The P&S databases are on the CD-ROM that came with your P&S textbook. I have copied the file to ITS Drive J on the path J:\courses\acct5342\access\psbook
Note that the files on CD-ROM discs are "read only." You must copy them into the Junk or Temp folders on your Drive c and then remove the read only properties.  If you download my Drive j copies of thos chapters, the read only properties have already been changed.  However, you still must copy the files into your Junk or Temp folders since students cannot write to Drive j.

Search engine for education sites --- http://www.searchedu.com/   

Search for electronic books --- http://www.searchebooks.com/ 

For more help in online searching go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 

Message for My Trinity University Students

Although you cannot access Drive J off campus, I want to point out that you can access my course  video tutorials from anywhere in the world.  The link is http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/

You will find avi, rm, and wmf versions of most every video.  I recommend that you choose the wmf version that will play in the Windows Media player that should be on your home computer.  

If you have speakers on your home computer, there is an advantage of running these videos at home.  On campus in the computer labs, you must first check out earphones from IMS and then hope the ear phones will work in a particular lab computer.  It is a lot less hassle to run my tutorial videos on your home computer. 

Helpful Documents at Bob Jensen's Web Site

Helpful Internet Links

Helpful Documents at Bob Jensen's Web Site
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Helpful Links for This Course
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Search Helpers
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Other Helpers

• Helpful Database and Microsoft Access Helpers and Links for ACCT 5342

• Bob Jensen's Main Index to Public Documents

• Document 03: Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

• Bob Jensen's Technology Glossary Plus Links to Other Glossaries
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  • Go to Technology Glossary/References With Frames (Recommended)
  • Go to Technology Glossary Only Without Frames

Notes and Paths to Files

The programs we will be using this semester should have icons in the Windows.   However, if you cannot find an icon these are the paths to the execution files on the Tigernet:

• Northwind Database (Drive J must be accessed using a Trinity University lab computer)
  J:\courses\acct5342\access\samples\nw2000.northwind.mdb  
  (Note that you cannot practice with or otherwise change this database in Drive J.  It is best to copy it into a Junk or Temp directory in Drive C of your computer.)

• Jensen's Excel Help Files: (Drive J must be accessed from a ITS Lab computer)
  J:\courses\acct5342\Excel

• Helpers and Internet Links
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ACCT 5342 ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS- Fall SEMESTER 2003

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