2024-2025 Academic Catalog

ACCT 2210 SECURE ACCOUNTING I

Credits

4

Secure Accounting I focuses on the use of information systems in the accounting process with an emphasis on computer systems, internal controls, and information security. This course provides students with analytical tools necessary to evaluate users' accounting information needs, and to design, implement, and maintain an accounting information system to support business processes and cycles and keeping information secure. Among the topics covered are: the components of a contemporary accounting information system (AIS); information security and internal controls, particularly within Internet and e-commerce environments; traditional flowcharting and data-flow diagrams; computer networks; theory, creation, and application of relational databases; and relational database management systems (RDBMS).

Lecture Hours

30

Lab Hours

60

Prerequisite

ACCT 1105 and ACCT 1120 with a final grade of "C" or higher

Corequisite

None