TACC403 Accounting Information Systems

Task:

Complete the following tasks and submit your answers as a report. Make sure you follow the requirements and report structure mentioned below under a separate heading. IT enables organizations to easily collect large amounts of information about employees and customers/visitors that results in many issues. These issues involve economic and ethical concerns.

Write a report addressing the following questions:

a. To what extent should management monitor employees’ e-mail?

b. To what extent should management monitor which websites employees visit?

c. To what extent should management monitor employee performance by, for example, using software to track keystrokes per hour or some other unit of time? If such information is collected, how should it be used?

d. Should companies use software to electronically “shred” all traces of e-mail?

e. Under what circumstances and to whom is it appropriate for a company to distribute information it collects about the people who visit its website?

Requirements & report structure

Reference sources from general websites are not acceptable.

At least six (6) credible references must be used and at least three (3) of these must be from academic (scholarly) journals. The remaining three (3) may be from industry magazines or books.

The references can be from printed or online sources and must be current (i.e. within the last seven (7) years). You can use material from organisational web sites as an example to support your arguments but it is not counted towards the references’ quota (i.e., 6 references).

You are to complete the tasks listed at the end of the case study and submit your answers as a report (excluding executive summary and reference list). For report, create a WORD file to develop your report and include the following:

Title page (no borders or frames, required details include a suitable report title, assignment title, your name, student number, course code and title, and due date)

Executive summary (briefly describe the purpose of the report and the date on which it was requested, a brief summary of your major findings, conclusions, and recommendations.)

Table of contents (use the feature in WORD for auto generated TOC, the headings ‘Title page’, ‘Executive summary’ and ‘Table of contents’ and also the individual headings on the title page should not appear in the table of contents that is generated.)

Introduction (identify the purpose of the report and what you will be discussing within the report.)

Discussion (This is the main body of the report, after ‘Introduction’ and before ‘Conclusion’ headings. This is where you will present the arguments for your recommendations. You will need to consider headings and sub?headings, as many as your discussion requires, between ‘Introduction’ and ‘Conclusion’, using WORD heading styles to guide your discussion to answer the tasks listed for the case study. You will need to determine in which order you present your material. You should not include the tasks, but a discussion about those issues that have been highlighted in the tasks.)