Accounting Information Systems

Part I: Foundations of AIS
 
1 Accounting as Information
 
1.1 Why Is Accounting Information Important?
 
1.2 How Have Accounting Information Systems Evolved?
 
1.3 How Does Management Use Information?
 
1.4 What Is the Relationship Between Accounting and Data Analytics?
 

2 Risks and Risk Assessments
 
2.1 How Do We Understand Risk?
 
2.2 What Are the Types of Risks?
 
2.3 How Do We Prioritize Risk?
 
2.4 How Do We Respond to Risk?
 

3 Risk Management and Internal Controls
 
3.1 How Do Internal Controls Mitigate Risk?
 
3.2 How Are Controls Classified?
 
3.3 How Do We Assess Internal Controls?
 
3.4 Why Are Internal Control Frameworks Important?
 

4 Software and Systems
 
4.1 How Do Systems Capture and Process Data?
 
4.2 How Do Startups and Small Businesses Use Technology?
 
4.3 What Are the Characteristics of Information Systems for Growing Companies?
 
4.4 Why Are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Considered Ideal?
 

5 Data Storage and Analysis
 
5.1 What Is Data?
 
5.2 How Is Data Stored?
 
5.3 What Makes Data "Big Data"?
 
5.4 How Do Accounting Professionals Use Data?
 

6 Designing Systems and Databases
 
6.1 How Are Systems Developed?
 
6.2 Which Methodology Should Be Used?
 
6.3 What Type of Database Should Be Used?
 
6.4 How Are Relational Databases Designed?
 
6.5 How Do We Interact with Data in a Database?
 
6.6 How Can We Create Database Forms and Reports?
 

7 Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
 
7.1 How Do Companies Approach Emerging and Disruptive Technologies?
 
7.2 How Do Disruptive Technologies Provide Business Opportunities?
 
7.3 How Does Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Benefit Accounting Professionals?
 
7.4 What Is Blockchain?
 
7.5 Why Should Accountants Care

ARLINE SAVAGE, PHD, CA is Professor and Sallie W. Dean Faculty Fellow in Accounting in the Collat School of Business at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She has taught a wide variety of courses across multiple countries, including her birthplace of South Africa, Canada, and the United States. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, most recently the 2021 UAB President's Award for Excellence in Teaching for exceptional accomplishments in teaching. Arline received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in accounting from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. She began teaching at UAB in 2012 and has served as chair of the Accounting and Finance department. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. Arline's research in accounting education has received international recognition; based on BYU accounting research rankings, she ranks 12th for the world over the last 12 years and 26th for all time. Arline has published more than 40 academic and professional publications as well as two scholarly books and two other textbooks.
 
DANIELLE BRANNOCK, CPA, CSPO is an Internal Audit Data Analyst at Intuitive, a robotics firm that provides surgeons assistance in performing minimally invasive procedures by using robots, such as the da Vinci Surgical System. Danielle is a licensed CPA in the state of Georgia, a certified Core Alteryx Designer, and a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), which is a project management certification for Agile and scrum software development frameworks. Prior to starting at Intuitive, Danielle performed internal audit data analytics at WestRock and Invesco after a career in external audit data analytics at both PwC and EY. Danielle was named the 2020 Young Accounting Alum of the Year and 2015 Outstanding Accounting Undergraduate Student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and was the recipient of the 2015 Alabama Society of CPA's