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This course presents
four main topic areas not generally covered in the regularly
scheduled Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting or
Auditing courses.
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Topic
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Readings |
Assignments
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REA and Design Science
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| 1 |
January 17 |
Introduction & Praxis |
P1–P4 |
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| 2 |
January 24 |
Background Papers |
P5–P11 |
Homework 1 |
| 3 |
January 31 |
REA as an Accounting Ontology |
P12–P18 |
Homework 2 |
| 4 |
February 7 |
Accounting Ontologies and Design
Science |
P19–P28 |
Homework 3 |
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Artificial Intelligence / Emerging Technologies
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| 5 |
February 14
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Rule-Base (Heuristic) Expert Systems
Belief Functions |
P29–P34 |
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| 6 |
February 21
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Local Propagation
Bayesian Networks and Hugin
Valuation Networks
Possibility Theory
Spohn's Epistemic Calculus |
P35–P37 |
Homework 4 |
| 7 |
February 28 |
Imprecise Probabilities, Previsions
and Gambles |
P38–P40 |
Homework 5 |
| 8 |
March 7
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AI/ET Research
Neural Networks
Genetic Programming |
*** |
Literature Review and Bibliography |
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March 14
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Spring Recess
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Ethics in Accounting |
| 9 |
March 21 |
Ethics |
Chapters 1–9 |
Homework 6 |
| 10 |
March 28 |
Business Ethics |
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Research Proposal Topic |
| 11 |
April 4
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Ethics in Accounting |
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Behavioral Research Methodologies |
| 12 |
April 11 |
Behavioral Auditing |
P41–P42 |
Draft Research Proposal |
| 13 |
April 18 |
Structural Equation Modeling |
P43–P45 |
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April 25 |
Linear Mixed Models
Loglinear Analysis |
P46–P47 |
Research Proposal |
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| Notes: |
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Numerical references to
papers (P) are to the list below.
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Chapter references are
to: Pojman, Louis P. 2006. "Ethics: Discovering Right and
Wrong." 5th Edition: Thomson/Wadsworth.
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*** Details of
papers to be announced during the course of the semester.
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| References |
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1. |
Chen, Peter P-S.1976.
"The Entity-relationship Model –
Toward a Unified Model of Data" ACM Transactions on Database
Systems (Vol.1, No.1): pp. 9-36. |
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2. |
McCarthy, William E.
1979. "An Entity-relationship View of Accounting Models" The
Accounting Review (Vol. LIV, No. 4): pp. 667-696. |
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3. |
McCarthy, William E.
1982. "The REA Accounting Model: A Generalized Framework for
Accounting Systems in a Shared Data Environment" The
Accounting Review (Vol. LVII, No. 3): pp. 554-578. |
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4. |
McCarthy, William E.
2003. "The REA Modeling Approach to Teaching Accounting
Information Systems" Issues in Accounting Education (Vol.
18, No. 4): pp. 427-441. |
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5. |
Mattesich, Richard.
1964. "Accounting and Analytical Methods" Chapters 1-3. Richard
D. Irwin: Homewood, IL. |
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6. |
Sorter, George. 1969.
"An 'Events' Approach to Basic Accounting Theory" The
Accounting Review, pp. 12-19. |
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7. |
Yu, S. C. 1976. "The
Structure of Accounting Theory" Chapter 8. The University
Presses of Florida: Gainesville, FL. |
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8. |
Bubenko, Janis. 1977.
"The Temporal Dimension in Information Modeling" Research Report
RC 6187. IBM Research Laboratories: Yorktown Heights, NY. In
Architecture and Models in Data Base Management Systems: pp.
93-118 |
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9. |
Everest, Gordon C. and
Ron Weber. 1977. "A Relational Approach to Accounting Models"
The Accounting Review (Vol. LII, No. 2): pp. 340-359. |
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10. |
Smith, John Miles and
Diane C. P. Smith. 1977. "Database Abstractions: Aggregation"
Communications of the ACM (Vol. 20, No. 6): pp. 405-413 |
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11. |
Smith, John Miles and
Diane C. P. Smith. 1977. "Database Abstractions: Aggregation and
generalization" ACM Transactions on Database (Vol. 2, No.
2): pp. 105-133. |
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12. |
Geerts, Guido L. and
William E. McCarthy. 2002. "An Ontological Analysis of the
Economic Primitives of the Extended-REA Enterprise Information
Architecture" International Journal of Accounting Information
Systems (No. 3, 2002): pp. 1-16. |
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13. |
Lampe, James C.
"Discussion of an Ontological Analysis of the Economic
Primitives of the Extended-REA Enterprise Information
Architecture" International Journal of Accounting Information
Systems (No. 3, 2002): pp. 17-34. |
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14. |
Geerts, Guido L. and
William E. McCarthy. 2000. “The Ontological Foundation of REA
Enterprise Information Systems”. Working Paper.
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15. |
Gruber, Thomas. 1993.
"A translation Approach to Portable Ontologies" Knowledge
Acquisition (Vol. 5, No. 2): pp. 199-220. |
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16. |
nGuarino, Nicola. 1998. "Formal Ontology and Information
Systems" Formal Ontology In Information Systems. IOS
Press: Amsterdam, pp. 3-15.
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17. |
nZúñiga, Gloria L. 2001. “Ontology: Its Transformation from
Philosophy to Information Systems” FOIS ’01.
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18. |
nSSSmith, Barry. 1998. “The Basic Tools of Formal Ontology”.
Formal Ontology in Information Systems (ed. N. Guarino).
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19. |
ISO/IEC 15944-4:2006
Information Technology - Business Agreement Semantic Descriptive
Techniques -- Part 4: Business Transaction Scenarios –
Accounting and Economic Ontology. |
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20. |
nPartridge, Christopher. 2002. “Shifting the Ontological
Foundations of Accounting’s Conceptual Scheme”.
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21. |
Wand, Yair and Ron
Weber. 1990. "An Ontological Model of an Information System"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Vol. 16, No. 11): pp.
1282-1292. |
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22. |
Weber, Ron. 2002.
"Ontological Issues in Accounting Information Systems." In
Researching Accounting as an Information Systems Discipline.
American Accounting Association, pp. 13-33 |
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23. |
Vandenbossche, P. E. A. and J. C. Wortmann. 2006. "Why
Accounting Data Models from Research are not Incorporated in ERP
Systems". Paper presented at the 2nd International REA Technology
Workshop, June 25, 2006. |
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24. |
March, S.T. and G. F.
Smith. 1995. "Design and Natural Science Research on Information
Technology" Decision Support Systems (Vol. 15): pp.
251-266. |
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25. |
David, Julie S., G.
Gerard, and William E. McCarthy. 2002. "Design Science: An REA
Perspective on the Future of AIS." In Researching Accounting
as an Information Systems Discipline. American Accounting
Association, pp. 35-63 |
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26. |
2007. Design Research
in Information Systems. Web Site. |
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27. |
Dunn, Cheryl and Sev
Grabski. 2002. Empirical Research in Semantically Modeled
Accounting Systems" In Researching Accounting as an
Information Systems Discipline. American Accounting
Association, pp. 157-180. |
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28. |
Hruby, Pavel. 2002.
"Universal Enterprise Model: Business Pattern Language."
Microsoft Business Solutions, Denmark. |
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29. |
Shortcliffe, E., and B.
G. Buchanan. 1975. "A Model of Inexact Reasoning in Medicine" Mathematical
Biosciences (Vol. 23). |
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30. |
Duda, R.
O., P. E. Hart, and N. J. Nilsson. 1976. "Subjective Bayesian
Methods for Rule-Based Inference Systems" Proceedings National Computer
Conference (AFIPS) 15. |
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31. |
Gillett, Peter. R. 1993.
"Automated Dynamic Audit Programme Tailoring: An Expert
System Approach" Auditing: A Journal of Practice and
Theory. (Vol. 12, Supplement): pp. 173-193. |
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32. |
Shafer, Glenn. and Rajendra. P. Srivastava.
1990. "The Bayesian and Belief-Function Formalisms - A General
Perspective for Auditing" Auditing: A
Journal of Practice and Theory.
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33. |
Srivastava, Rajendra. P.
and Glenn. Shafer. 1992. "Belief_Function Formulas for
Audit Risk" The Accounting
Review (Vol. 67, No. 2).
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34. |
Rajendra. P. Srivastava.
1995. "A General Scheme for Aggregating
Evidence in Auditing: Propagation of Beliefs in
Networks." In Artificial Intelligence in
Accounting and Auditing. Markus Wiener
Publishers. |
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35. |
Lauritzen, Steffan. L.,
and David. J. Spiegelhalter. 1988. "Local
Computations with Probabilities on Graphical
Structures and their Application to Expert
Systems". Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society. |
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36. |
Shenoy, Prakash., and Glenn.
Shafer. 1990. "Axioms for Probability and
Belief-Function Propagation". Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence. |
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37. |
Gillett, Peter. R. 1997.
A Comparative Study of Audit Evidence and
Audit Planning Models Using Uncertain Reasoning.
UMI. |
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38. |
Walley, Peter. 1996.
"Measures of Uncertainty in Expert Systems" Artificial
Intelligence (Vol. 83): pp. 1-58. |
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39. |
Shafer, Glenn, Peter R.
Gillett, and Richard B. Scherl. 2003. "A New
Understanding of Subjective Probability and its Generalization
to Lower and Upper Prevision" International Journal of
Approximate Reasoning (Vol. 33): pp. 1 - 49. |
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40. |
Gillett, Peter R.,
Glenn Shafer, and Richard B. Scherl. 2007. "A
Probabilistic Logic Based on the Acceptability of Gambles"
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. |
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41. |
Hoffman, V. B. and J. M.
Patton. 1997. "Accountability, the Dilution Effect, and
Conservatism in Auditors' Fraud Judgments". The
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 25 No. 2. |
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42. |
M. S. Beaseley, J. V.
Carcello, D. R. Hermanson, and P. D. Lapides. 2000.
"Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Consideration of
Industry Traits and Coporate Governance Mechanisms" Accounting Horizons
(Vol. 14, No. 4) |
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43. |
Karla M. Johnstone.
2000. "Client-Acceptance Decisions: Simultaneous Effects of
Client Business Risk, Audit Risk, Auditor Business Risk, and
Risk Adaptation" Auditing: A Journal of Practice and
Theory (Vol. 19, No. 1): pp.1-25. |
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44. |
Peter R. Gillett and
Nancy Uddin. 2005. "CFO Intentions to Report
Fraudulently". Auditing: A Journal of Practice and
Theory (Vol. 24, No. 1): pp. 55-75. |
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45. |
Uddin, Nancy and Peter R.
Gillett. 2002. "The Effects of Moral Reasoning and
Self-Monitoring on CFO Intentions to Report Fraudulently on
Financial Statements" The Journal of Business Ethics
(Vol. 40): pp.15-32. |
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46. |
Marija J. Norusis.
2004. "SPSS 13.0 Advanced Statistical procedures Companion,"
Chapter10. |
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47. |
Marija J. Norusis.
2004. "SPSS 13.0 Advanced Statistical procedures Companion,"
Chapter2. |
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