Business Processes and Internal Controls

ACCT2000 Business Processes and Internal Controls

Semester 1, Trimester 1A and OUA SP1, 2025
Assignment

This INDIVIDUAL assignment is worth 50% (STAGE 1 10% and STAGE 2 40%) of the final mark. Plagiarism policy: Please familiarise yourself with the Universitys plagiarism policy. Any student involved in getting someone else to do their assignment or copying of assignments will be eported to the university and may face serious penalties. For more information, please visit this website: http://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm

Submission Process:

There are two (2) STAGES to this assignment. The first Stage is due in week 5 and the second is due in week 10 (Excluding tuition free week). Please refer to the Program Calendar section of the unit outline and/or Blackboard for the exact dates/time.

All steps and requirements are detailed in the assignment pack consisting of:

• ACCT2000 Assignment Stage 1 and Stage 2;


• Assignment Cover Sheet Stage 1 and Stage 2;


• Acct2000 Assignment Rubric Stage 1 and Rubric Stage 2 (verify ways to achieve marks); and

It is vital that students test to make sure their submitted materials can be opened by the computers in the computer labs on campus. Under the July 2018 Curtin Universitys ASSESSMENT AND STUDENT PROGRESSION:

POLICY AND PROCEDURES Handbook (Assessment Communication Section 2.6), Submitted files that are unable to be read cannot be marked. These should be treated as a non-submission. (p.13). Here is a link to the policy document:

https://policies.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/policy/Assessment_and_Student_Progression_Manual.pdf Specifically, please pay attention to the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

Written materials will be submitted via TURNITIN.

Assignment Theme Accounting in the clouds

In June 2012, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission - a joint initiative of five private sector organizations (American Institute of CPAs, Institute of Management Accountants, Financial Executives International, American Accounting Association, and Institute of Internal Auditors) - released a report providing organization guidance on cloud computing. This report defined it as a computing resource deployment and procurement model that enables an organization to obtain its computing resources and applications from any location via an Internet connection. Depending on the cloud solution model an organization adopts, all or parts of the organizations hardware, software and data might no longer reside on its own technology infrastructure. Instead, all of these resources may reside in a technology centre shared with other organizations and managed by a third-party vendor. (Reference hidden).

The objective of the assignment is To discuss whether or not a company should move to the Cloud. The discussion should be focused on the challenges of such move for example Cross-boundaries legislation, data security, system performance, etc including financial performance.

In stage 1, using at least 10 scholarly journal articles (please note that trade journal articles and professional journal articles are not scholarly journal articles. However, you may use trade journal articles and professional journal articles if you already have at least 10 scholarly journal articles) to justify how your objective can be achieved. Do not discuss one article at a time. Dissert all articles listed in the reference section and in your words, discuss how they are relevant to achieving your objective. Please use the database PROQUEST found in the Curtin Library Information Systems which Curtin students can legally use.

The comments and/or issues given by the marker in your Stage 1 should be noted or remedied in order to get better marks for Stage 2. The same marker will mark both stages.

Succinctly, Stage 1 of the assignment is simply a proposal to complete Stage 2. You must use Endnote to store all your references and citations. Also, make sure that the abstracts of the selected academic journal articles are copied and pasted in the order of the reference list (ie they must aligned).

In Stage 2, you will need to expand your work in stage 1. The reference items are to be critiqued[i] by focussing on the Literature Review and/or Research Method sections of the articles if any. Discussing one article at a time is not critiquing and you will be awarded very low marks. You do NOT need to copy the abstracts and paste them again in stage 2.

Again, Endnote needs to be used or zero (0) marks will be awarded in the narrative section.

Please note that the effort you put in when finalising your journal articles in stage 1 will help you significantly when completing stage 2. That is, stage 2 will depend on what you have discussed in stage 1.