Education in enterprise-systems and business intelligence

Educational objectives

Provide students with knowledge of issues in accounting information systems (AIS) in general and enterprise systems/business intelligence (ES/BI) in particular;
Provide students with skills in planning, managing and using AIS in general and ES/BI solutions, Office productivity tools, data bases etc. in particular;
Provide students with skills in SAP solutions.

General educational focus

Accounting from the information management perspective;
Interdisciplinary approach to/benefits of the integration of business processes, functional silos and related data;
Business planning, analysis and operations control with ES;
Business analysis with BI solutions (data warehouses and analytical/OLAP tools.

Software focus

SAP enterprise solutions for financial management, logistics and SCM;
SAP Netweaver business intelligence;
Office productivity tools, small scale databases, mainstream accounting packages for SMBs.

Courses

The Accounting Discipline Group provides award courses and non-award courses in accounting information systems (AIS), in particular enterprise systems (ES) and business intelligence (BI) solutions. Most of these courses and subjects have a strong ‘hands-on’ component, i.e. they are taught in computer labs, where students work with various software packages, in particular SAP enterprise systems and SAP BI applications.

SAP certification

The Accounting Discipline Group offers award students who have completed certain sets of subjects extracurricular non-award (‘short’) courses which prepare them for globally recognised “SAP Associate” certifications. These certifications can also be accessed via non-award course paths.

Careers in AIS/SAP

Graduates of the AIS/ SAP-related courses and subjects might be found in roles such as systems accountant, management accountant, financial controller, IS auditor, business analyst, IS project manager/IS consultant, business intelligence manager, etc. Find out more about career options and challenges.