Accounting Information Systems

The assessment is based on two blog entries, Blog 1 and Blog 4 which are posted in Resources.

These two blog entries come from a blog based on your text. You are required to answer one question from each blog entry.

Assignment Question 1-

Explain how the implementation of cloud computing relates to an organisations strategy and how it could affect a company's value chain. Use a recent announcement by a company to illustrate your explanation. Present your answer in essay format (word guide 1000 - 1200 words).

Assignment Question 2-

Your manager has requested a report explaining how ERP can value add. Using the blog post as a starting point, include in your report the following issues:

• the impact of cloud computing on data analysis within an organisation

• the role that cloud computing can have in an organisation's network

• the role cloud computing has within an Accounting Information System

• any potential risks that should be avoided when implementing a cloud based ERP solution in an organisation

Your report, including executive summary should be maximum length 1200 words.

Rationale

This assignment is designed to enable you to demonstrate your ability to:

• understand and apply foundation principles relating to computerised information systems in contemporary organisations

• explain the role of data analysis tools and data mining;

• to illustrate typical network configurations and identify the components of a network, particularly identifying the role that cloud computing has in a network;

• evaluate accounting information system architecture, particularly identifying the role that cloud computing and ERP have as the basis for an accounting information system;

• identify organisational risk and the impact that cloud computing and ERP systems have on that risk.