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Encouraging Colleagues to Incorporate Accounting Software in Curriculum

This article discusses the integration of accounting software throughout the curriculum, sharing survey results, need for new instructional materials, and resource requirements. It emphasizes the benefits of incorporating software across courses for business and accounting literacy.

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Encouraging Colleagues to Incorporate Accounting Software in Curriculum

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  1. Encouraging Colleagues to Incorporate Accounting Software throughout the Accounting Curriculum Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead (segovia@mnstate.edu ) Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College (susan.crosson@sfcc.edu)

  2. 0 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

  3. 0 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/

  4. 0 What we do now Survey: • Present and past Convergence attendees • AIS Educators Conference attendees • N=20

  5. 0 Where do you teach?

  6. 0 What department do you teach in?

  7. 0 How many years have you taught?

  8. 0 What courses do you teach? Accounting Professors (n=14)

  9. 0 What software does your college and courses emphasize?N=14 AIS; 6 IS

  10. 0 Software Taught Wide 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

  11. 0 Use of Academic Alliance Data Sets

  12. 0 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.

  13. 0 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

  14. 0 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

  15. 0 What resources would you need to incorporate accounting software across the curriculum?

  16. Why integrate software across the curriculum? • Business/Financial Literacy • Accounting Literacy Because it is how business and accounting are actually done….

  17. Accounting Applications Basic Business Processes: …buy, sell, build, track • Acquisition/Payment • Sale/Collection • Conversion • Human Resource • Financing

  18. Popular Accounting software

  19. Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007; Dynamics-GP

  20. 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

  21. Types of Finance Departments

  22. User Roles

  23. Basic Accounting Tasks/Processes

  24. Accounting Course Sequence 0 Excel Excel Managerial/ Principles II Financial/ Principles I Dynamics-GP Publisher Designed GL, Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007 Computer Accounting Tax Cost Intermediate AIS Audit Tax Software Peachtree Access Excel Dynamics-GP ACL

  25. Questions? • Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead (segovia@mnstate.edu ) • Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College (susan.crosson@sfcc.edu)

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