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Informing Science InSITE- “Where Parallels Intersect ” June 2003 Making Databases Relevan
Informing Science InSITE - “Where Parallels Intersect” June 2003
Making Databases Relevant in the Accounting Information
Systems Course: Exercises for the Classroom
Janette Moody
The Citadel, Charleston, SC, USA
Janette.Moody@Citadel.edu
Abstract
The pivotal role played by computers in acquiring, storing, and processing financial information requires
that accountants, and therefore accounting students, have a thorough understanding of the underlying
principles of data composition and data structures. In add ition, in order to facilitate the deep learning
that will sustain these students past the point-and-click mecha nics of the software du jour, it is important
that a pedagogical strategy such as problem-based learning be used in the classroom, especially during
the early learning phases of database courses. This presentation will provide some specific exa mples of
classroom exercises designed to incorporate the student’s current knowledge of everyday business situa-
tions with higher order concepts of data models and their impact on managerial information. The pres-
entation will first discuss the current state of Accounting Information Systems curricular, the concepts of
problem-based learning, and examples of clas sroom exercises to teach database concepts to accounting
students.
Introduction
Accounting information systems of the past focused on the recording, summarizing and validating of
data about business financial transactions. These functions were performed for the various groups
within the organization that were conc erned about the respective decisions associated with financial ac-
counting, mana
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