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Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T1 2019
Unit Code HI5019
Unit Title Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise
Assessment Type Group assignment
Assessment Title Case Study – Eureka Limited
Purpose of the Students are required to:
assessment (with ULO Mapping) • Appreciate the purpose of computer controls and auditing in digital economy (ULO 6)
• Describe the processes use in the development of computer-based
systems/ERP and the ways in which processes are managed (ULO 7)
Weight 20% of the total assessments
Total Marks 20
Word limit Not more than 3,500 words
Due Date Week 10, Friday 5:00 pm (AEST)
Submission • This assignment is to be completed by a group of 3 - 6 students.
Guidelines • Students must report the names and student IDs for all group members to the lecturer of their class by e-mail before the end of week 8.
• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.
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Assignment Specifications
Background
Eureka Limited is a family owned company with around 73 employees and sales revenue increased to more than $ 18.5 million during the past year. It has been in business for over 55 years and supplies beverages to a number of different businesses, including supermarkets and pub-chains. The company has experienced mixed fortunes over the years in terms of business performance, but in the last few years has experienced a growth in orders for some of its new healthy product ranges. However, Eureka has recently lost some key accounts because of being unable to produce some of its products at a competitive price.
Although the company hired an accountant who was keeping their books for them and producing the financial statements each year, the company thought they needed much more information to run their business efficiently. They felt that they needed to make an investment in an accounting software to take their business to the next level.
Required
You are required to prepare a report to evaluate and recommend an accounting software for Eureka
Limited. The report should include the following components:
• Business requirements
o What are the key business processes for Eureka Limited?
o What are the major control risks for the business processes of the company?
• Systems requirements
o What are some of the possible accounting software features and functionalities that the company should consider to achieve their business objectives and minimise the control risks?
• Software selection
o Visit the websites of at least three (3) accounting software package vendors (e.g. SAP, MYOB, Xero etc.) and provide a brief description of each vendor and its products.
o Which category of accounting software (low, medium or high-end) suitable for the company? Give your justifications in detail.
• Vendor selection
o Compare and contrast the features and functionalities of two accounting software packages offered by accounting software package vendors within your selected category.
o Which one would be the most suitable vendor and accounting software package for the company and why?
Assignment Structure
The report should include the following components:
• Assignment cover page clearly stating your name and student number
• A table of contents, executive summary
• A brief introduction or overview of what the report is about.
• Body of the report with sections to answer the above issues and with appropriate section headings
• Conclusion
• List of references
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The report should be grounded on relevant literature and all references must be properly cited and included in the reference list.
Marking criteria
Marking criteria Weighting
Key business processes for Eureka Limited 2%
Major control risks for the business processes of the company 2%
Accounting software features and functionalities that the company should consider 3%
Description of accounting software package vendors and their products 3%
Category of accounting software suitable for the company 2%
Comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages 2%
The choice of accounting software package for the company 2%
Presentation 2%
Research quality 2%
TOTAL Weight 20%
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Marking Rubric
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Key business processes for Eureka Limited Identify all key business processes for the company. Identify most key Identify most key business processes for the company with minor errors. Identify some business processes for the company with errors and/or omissions. Fail to identify any key business process for the company.
/2 business process
for the company.
Major control risks for the business processes of the company Identify all major control risks for the business processes. Identify most Identify most major control risks for the business processes with minor errors. Identify some major control risks for the business processes with errors and/or omissions. Fail to identify any major control risk for the business processes.
/2 major control
risks for the
business
processes.
Accounting software features and functionalities that the company should consider Present an excellent discussion on features and functionalities of accounting software that the company should consider. Present a very good discussion on features and functionalities of accounting software that the company should consider. Present a good discussion on features and functionalities of accounting software that the company should consider with minor errors and/or omissions. Present a discussion on features and functionalities of accounting software that the company should consider with errors and/or omissions. Fail to present a proper discussion on features and functionalities of accounting software that the company should consider.
/3
Description of accounting software package vendors and their products Present an excellent description of accounting software package vendors and their products. Present a very good description of accounting software Present a good description of accounting software Present a description of accounting software package vendors and their products with errors and/or omissions. Fail to present a proper description of accounting software package vendors and their products.
/3 package vendors and their products. package vendors and their products with minor errors and/or omissions.
Category of accounting software suitable for the company Propose a category of accounting software based on very strong arguments. Propose a category of accounting software based on strong arguments. Propose a category of accounting software based on reasonable arguments. Propose a category of accounting software based on weak or inadequate arguments. Fail to propose a proper category of accounting software or back the proposed category with valid argument.
/2
Comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages Present an excellent comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages. Present a very good Present a good comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages with minor errors and/or omissions. Present a reasonable comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages with errors and omissions. Fail to present a proper comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages.
/2 comparison of factures and functionalities of two accounting software packages.
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The choice of accounting software package for the company Propose a choice of accounting software Propose a choice of accounting software Propose a choice of accounting software Propose a choice of accounting software package based on weak or inadequate arguments. Fail to propose a proper choice of accounting software package or back the proposed choice with valid argument.
/2 package based on very strong arguments. package based on strong arguments. package based on reasonable arguments.
Presentation Report included Report included Report included Report included Report lacked
all elements and all elements and all elements and most elements some elements
/2 was very well was well was generally and was and was poorly
presented. presented. presented adequately presented.
Writing flowed Writing flowed appropriately. presented. Writing often
clearly and clearly and Writing mostly Writing did not flow
sections were sections were flowed well and sometimes did clearly leaving
linked very linked sections were not flow clearly the paper to
effectively. effectively. linked. leaving the seem somewhat
Referencing was Referencing was Referencing was paper to seem disjointed.
exemplary. of a high in accordance disjointed in Referencing was
English was used standard. with guidelines. areas. not entirely in
very effectively English was used English was used Referencing was accordance with
and was error- effectively with effectively with somewhat in relevant
free. very few errors few errors accordance with guidelines. Basic
present. present. guidelines. Basic English was used with some errors present. English was used with errors present.
Research Quality An extensive A broad range of An adequate An adequate Little or no peer-
amount of high- quality peer- range of peer- range of peer- reviewed journal
/2 quality evidence reviewed journal reviewed journal reviewed journal references were
from peer- references and references was references was included and
reviewed journal other sources included and included and these were
articles and was included used to support used to a basic rarely used to
other sources and used discussion. extent to support
was included effectively to support discussion
and used effectively to support discussion. support discussion. discussion. effectively.
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