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Encouraging Colleagues to Incorporate Accounting Software throughout the Accounting Curriculum. Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead ( [email protected] ) Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College ( [email protected] ). 0. Objectives. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Encouraging Encouraging Colleagues to Colleagues to
Incorporate Incorporate Accounting Accounting
Software Software throughout throughout
the the Accounting Accounting Curriculum Curriculum
Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead ([email protected] )
Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College ([email protected])
Objectives• Provide information Academic Alliances
– Microsoft – Rivet—Dragon Tag (XBRL)
• Share results of survey– Demographical Information– Curriculum
• Discuss integrating software across the curriculum– Visions– Other information of interest
Academic Alliance• Microsoft
– Academic Alliance– Microsoft Convergence Conference– Free training– Data sets for distribution, service, and non-profit– http://www.microsoft.com/education/academic_alliance.mspx
• Rivet—Dragon Tag (XBRL) – Interactive Financial Report Viewer delivered to the
SEC– Free product downloads– http://www.rivetsoftware.com/
What What we do nowwe do now
Survey:Survey:
• Present and past Convergence attendeesPresent and past Convergence attendees
• AIS Educators Conference attendeesAIS Educators Conference attendees
• N=20N=20
Where do you teach?
Doctorate university
Four-year university
Two-year collegeOther
Doctorate university
Four-year university
Two-year college
Other
What department do you teach in?
AccountingBusiness
Information SystemsManagement Accounting
Business
InformationSystems
Management
How many years have you taught?
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
0-5 years
5-10 years
10-15 years
over 15 years
over 15 years
10-15 years
5-10 years
0-5 years
What courses do you teach?Accounting Professors (n=14)
Financial/Advanced
Principles/Introductory
Managerial
Audit
Tax
Financial/Advanced
Principles/Introductory
Managerial
Audit
Tax
What software does your college and courses emphasize?
N=14 AIS; 6 IS
0 5 10 15 20
Office Applications
Access
Great Plains
Database
Computer languages
Audit
QuickBooks
Peachtree
Tax Tax
Peachtree
QuickBooks
Audit
ComputerlanguagesDatabase
Great Plains
Access
OfficeApplications
Software TaughtWide variety of
accounting software
taught by AIS profs
– Small Business: GP, Peachtree, QuickBooks,
Office Accounting– Medium-Sized Business: GP
– Large Business: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Oracle
• More commonly taught by IS rather than AIS
Use of Academic Alliance Data Sets
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Not sure if courseobjectives met
No time to incorporateprojects into course
No time to developprojects
Did not know data setsexisted
Did not know data sets existed
No time to develop projects
No time to incorporate projects into course
Not sure if course objectives met
Integration of Software?
Key observations: Three out of six IS instructors integrate across courses. Only one out of fourteen AIS instructors integrate across courses and was database software; not accounting software.
Integration of Software
6%
19%
75%
Within accounting
Within IS
No integration
Examples of how software is integrated
• Accounting: one doctorate university includes Java, Unix, shell scripting in systems analysis and design, enterprise applications, S-plus for stats and data mining, Oracle and Access database course
• IS: three (one doctorate, two 4-year): Access, Visio, Project, MS Excel, SPSS, MS Dynamics-GP in Operations Management & Supply Chain
What new instructional materials are needed?
• Instructional materials for courses other than AIS• Accounting projects rather than transaction
processing– Flowcharting business process– Designing and implementing systems for the process– Internal control and security issues
• Projects for use with datasets (audit, non-profit)• Projects that integrate software (GP, Access, Excel)
» Source AIS/IS survey
What resources would you need to incorporate accounting software across the curriculum?
Why integrate software across the curriculum?
• Business/Financial Literacy• Accounting Literacy
Because it is how business and accounting are actually done….
Accounting Applications
Basic Business Processes:
…buy, sell, build, track
• Acquisition/Payment • Sale/Collection• Conversion• Human Resource• Financing
Popular Accounting software
Software 2006-7 Educational Cost Retail Cost
Peachtree by Sage
FREE to schoolswww.peachtree.com/training/educational_partnerships.cfm
$69.99 - $699.99
QuickBooks by Intuit
Educational pricing: $99.95 - $599.95
Or 30 day FREE Online Edition
www.intuitadvisor.com/education
$99.95 to $3,000.00+
Online: $19.95-39.95/mo.
Office Accounting 2007 by Microsoft
Two versions:Express or Professional
Office Accounting Express 2007:http://www.ideawins.com/home.html
Office Accounting Professional 2007:
http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/product.aspx?family=officeaccounting&culture=en-US
Express FREE download or part of
Office Small Business,
Professional, or Ultimate Suites
Professional: FREE limited use or$149 new or $99 upgrade
Dynamics-GP by Microsoft
Academic Alliance FREE to schools or 120 day educational
versionwww.microsoft.com/education/
academic_alliance.mspx
$15,000.00+
Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007; Dynamics-GP
Accounting Software Perspectives and Assumptions
• Doing Focus– Principles of Accounting, Tax, Audit, Government – Focus on Data entry and Bookkeeping– Practice sets to learn accounting processes
• Using Focus– Separate Computer literacy & AIS Courses teach the basics – Focus on computer-based stand-alone programs– Accounting done by accountants in accounting department– Practice analyzing sample company data or data sets from
Financial/Managerial/Tax/Auditor perspective• Business Process Focus
– Technology integrated across curricula & desktop– Focus on analyzing Information accessible from anywhere– Accounting generated by accountants and non-accountants – Practice queries and searches of databases – Explore Internal/External Controls and Risks of Systems– Driven by User Interface
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/product/familiartoyourpeople.mspx
Types of Finance Departments
User Roles
Basic Accounting Tasks/Processes
Publisher Designed GL, Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007
Peachtree
Dynamics-GP
Financial/Principles I
Managerial/Principles II
IntermediateCost
Excel
Excel
Access
Computer Accounting
AISTax
Excel
Dynamics-GP
Tax Software
Accounting Course Sequence
Audit
ACL
Questions?
• Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead ([email protected] )
• Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College