This unit is aimed at providing the students with an overall knowledge of business organisations and their structure. The unit will cover all the steps from business strategy to operational planning and financial systems. The internal processes of a business organisation will be described with an emphasis on how they work together to achieve the financial and physical goals of the business.
Accounting information systems and the systems for the processing and recording of business transactions, inventory, sales, purchasing and financial reporting will be described in detail. Tutorial exercises using commercial software will take students through the operational steps of sales, purchasing and deliveries and then produce the main financial statements for the organisation.
A range of new management concepts and tools such as process oriented organisations, control matrices, and systems theory will be described. The unit will also look at how e-commerce and e-business is used in a modern organisation, and give a brief description of contracts and contract law.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs tutorials/wk
Additionally, each student should spend a minimum of 8 to 12 hours for personal study every week and should allocate up to 5 hours per week in some weeks for use of a computer, including time for newsgroup and discussion.
Rod Martin
Rod MARTIN
Contact hours: Wednesday, Friday 3:00PM - 5:00 PM
Caddie GAO
Boon YEAP
Naief AZYABI
Visham NARASIAH
Joshua AKERSTEIN
Caddie GAO
Rod MARTIN
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Examination (2 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| VISUAL Enterprise | 15% | 6 May 2011 |
| EXCEL/Access | 20% | 20 May 2011 |
| Oracle XE | 5% | 27 May 2011 |
| Examination 1 | 60% | To be advised |
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Non programmable calculators, Dictionaries.
| Week | Date* | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 21/02/11 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | 28/02/11 | LECTURE: Introduction to Business Systems, NO TUTORIAL | |
| 2 | 07/03/11 | LECTURE: Accounting Basics, TUTORIAL: Visual Enterprise, Excel Tutorial 1 | |
| 3 | 14/03/11 | LECTURE: Accounting Bookkeeping, TUTORIAL: Excel Tutorial 2 | |
| 4 | 21/03/11 | LECTURE: Process Design Tools, Documenting Business Processes, TUTORIAL: Excel Tutorial 3 | |
| 5 | 28/03/11 | LECTURE: Database and Data Warehouse, TUTORIAL: Excel Tutorial 4 | |
| 6 | 04/04/11 | LECTURE: Strategic Decision Making, Business Intelligence, TUTORIAL: Access Tutorial 1 Tables | |
| 7 | 11/04/11 | LECTURE: E-Business, TUTORIAL: Access Tutorial 2 Queries | |
| 8 | 18/04/11 | LECTURE: Enterprise Systems 1, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), TUTORIAL: Access Tutorial 3 Forms | |
| Mid semester break | |||
| 9 | 02/05/11 | LECTURE: Enterprise Systems 2, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), Guest Lecture by Vincent LEE on SAP, TUTORIAL: Access Tutorial 4 Reports | Submit VISUAL Enterprise assignment - 6 May 2011 |
| 10 | 09/05/11 | LECTURE: Contract Law, Quality, guest lecture on SAP applications, TUTORIAL: SAP, Oracle XE | |
| 11 | 16/05/11 | LECTURE: Business Strategy, TUTORIAL: IBM DB2 | Submit Enterprise Systems, Access assignments - 20 May 2011 |
| 12 | 23/05/11 | LECTURE: Revision, TUTORIAL: MS Project, Revision | Submit Oracle XE assignment - 27 May 2011 |
| 30/05/11 | SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
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If a student does not achieve 40% or more in the unit examination or the unit non-examination total assessment, and the total mark for the unit is greater than 50% then a mark of no greater than 49-N will be recorded for the unit
Details of the assessment will be given in class.
Details of the assessment will be given in class.
Details of the assessment will be given in class.
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Referencing internet and electronic sources, Harvard reference style
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IEEE Referencing
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