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33:010:458
Accounting Information Systems
Fall 1997
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| The following
initial computer assignment is due September 10.
It is intended partly to provide an opportunity
for you to familiarize yourself with some of the
Internet tools that we will be using this
semester, and partly to provide me with
information that will be used in administering
the course and in making team assignments for
group projects. Consequently, although the
assignment will not be graded there will be a 75
point penalty for failure to complete it by the
due date. In addition, no credit can be accrued
towards group projects or class participation
until your registration form is submitted. |
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| 1 |
Material useful in completing
the steps below can be found by reading pages 1 -
25 and 57 - 63 of the optional text:
"The Internet Guide for Accountants"
by Kogan, Sudit and Vasarhelyi. |
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If you have not already done so,
obtain an e-mail account from the university in
the usual way. |
| 3 |
Using Netscape, Internet
Explorer, or any other browser available to you,
visit my Home Page at
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gillett.
Click where indicated to visit the brief
biography page, and click on that page (try the
photograph if you dont want to read the
biography!) to reach the main Departure Board.
From there, select Courses and then choose Fall
1997: Accounting Information Systems. Since this
is the page you will probably need to visit most,
you may wish to bookmark this page if you are
using your own machine. |
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Scroll down the page, noting the
materials currently available (highlighted in
color) and additional materials that will be made
available to you later in the semester (in
black). Print the course Syllabus, read it, and
bring it class with you next time. |
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Print the course Timetable, read
it, and bring it to class with you next time. |
| 6 |
Print this Initial Computer
Assignment page. |
| 7 |
Subscribe to the Listserve, so
that you will receive mail related to this class.
You are responsible for anything that I publish
via the Listserve, and the Listserve is archived
as a record of what was published. To subscribe
to the Listserve you should send an e-mail
message to Majordomo@raw.rutgers.edu containing
the text "subscribe sob_ais myaddress"
where myaddress is your own e-mail
address; there should be no subject heading for
this message. Alternatively, you can use the
Rutgers Accounting Research Center's graphic
interface to do this by visiting the Mailing List
WWW Gateway. For your convenience, a hot link has
been provided on the Accounting Information
Systems 1997 page to enable you to post messages
to the Listserve. Be careful how you use this.
When replying to e-mail from the Listserve,
remember to send replies back to the Listserv
only if you want them to go to everyone who has
subscribed. Otherwise, reply directly to the
original sender! |
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Visit the class Newsgroup
(Bulletin Board) located at
news://rarc.rutgers.edu/rarc.sob.ais. You can do
this by pointing your browser to this address; if
you have your own machine, you can configure your
browser to use this Newsgroup by default. For
your convenience, there is also a hot link to the
Newsgroup on the Accounting Information Systems
1997 page. You are encouraged to use this
Bulletin Board as a way of sharing problems,
solutions and other matters with the class.
Postings to the Newsgroup will be considered as
an element in determining class participation for
the semester. Be aware that this is a public
forum! |
| 9 |
In order to gain access to the
main textbook for the semester, which is an
on-line text, you will need to register with the
publishers at http://www.cybertext.com. For your
convenience in accessing the text during the
semester, a hot link may be found on the
Accounting Information Systems 1997 page. If you
use this link to register, you will need to move
back one page in Cybertext's site, using the
arrow icon they provide. |
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Finally, use the form that I
have provided (via the link on the Accounting
Information Systems 1997 page) to register
yourself. |
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