BØK 3628 Internal Control and Accounting Organisation
BØK 3628 Internal Control and Accounting Organisation
The main topic of the course is to introduce internal control as one of the tools for efficient management control and to discuss challenges when establishing well-functioning accounting routines that focus on controlling and compliance in all relevant areas.
After completing the course, the students have
- Knowledge about the COSO-model as a general framework for internal control
- Basic knowledge about the most relevant compliance challenges for business enterprises and employers
- Knowledge about control activities related to ICT systems
- Knowledge about the most relevant business processes and their corresponding routines
- Knowledge about the roles and responsibilities of the Board of Directors, the Managing Director and the chartered auditor
After completing the course, the students are able to:
- Identify, assess and understand risk, including risk in the ICT systems
- Design efficient routines for internal control that address both generic and more business specific control challenges
- Design accounting routines that focus on accounting legislation compliance
After completing the course the students shall have required a deeper understanding about the complexity of internal control, as well as the understanding of corporate governance being business specific, requiring knowledge about organizational culture and the management challenges that occur when individual and collective behavior must change.
- Internal control as a part of corporate governance
- Overall goals related to operations, reporting and compliance
- The COSO model
- The control environment
- Identification and assessment of risk
- Effecient control activities
- IT-related control activities
- Efficient reporting routines and montoring of the systems for intern control
- Accounting legislation compliance
- Other relevant compliance challenges
- Organization of IT projecrs
- Efficient accounting routines in various business processes
- The accountant and controller as advisors
This is course is from spring 2019 only offered as a net-based course. There are no traditional classes, but instead the use of videos, webinars, study guide and discussion forum.
A great part of the teaching is connected to the writing of term paper. This work will be given supervision under the first two weeks of working on the paper. The subjects will be central parts of accounting and internal control, preferably those who are new as a consequence of technological development or changing laws and rules. The theoretical basis for the writing will be the syllabus from the course, and also literature from adjacent subjects which is necessary in a defensible practical treatment of practical accounting challenges.
E-Learning
In course delivery as online courses, lecturer will, in collaboration with the student administration, organize an appropriate course implementation, combining different learning activities and digital elements on the learning platform. The online students are also offered a study guide that will contribute to progression and overview. Total recommended time spent for completing the course also applies here.
The course content is adapted to UHR-ØA's recommended framework for Bachelor in Business Administration with a profile for certified public accountants.
As from the spring of 2022, the form of examination will be changed to:
- An individual four-hour mid-term exam counts for 40% of the final grade. (BOOK 36282).
- A group assignment over four weeks counts 60% of the final grade. (BOOK 36283).
Re-sit exams in the previous exam version (BØK 36281), will be offered in the autumn of 2021 and the spring of 2022.
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
Teaching
Information about what is taught on campus and other digital forms will be presented with the lecture plan before the start of the course each semester.
BØK 3422 Managerial Accounting, BØK 3532 Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis and BØK 3541 Managerial Accounting and Control or equivalent courses.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Hour(s) Exam code: BØK36282 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 2 Week(s) Comment: Written assignment Exam code: BØK36283 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Student's own work with learning resources | 25 Hour(s) | Approximately 15 videos |
Student's own work with learning resources | 40 Hour(s) | Text book |
Group work / Assignments | 43 Hour(s) | Exercises |
Examination | 75 Hour(s) | Work with term paper. |
Teaching | 8 Hour(s) | |
Webinar | 9 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.
All exams must be passed to obtain a final grade in the course