Accounting Information Systems (with Acquiring, Developing and Implementing Guide and CD-ROM)

The text focuses on providing skills necessary for a foundation in enterprise risk management--particularly as these risks pertain to information systems and relevant business processes. Fundamental to an enterprise risk management orientation, from an information systems perspective, are the underlying enterprise systems, e-business systems, and controls for maintaining these systems.

Ulric J. (Joe) Gelinas, Jr., PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts. For PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dr. Gelinas developed and taught training programs for business processes, internal control, and IT audit. He was Senior Consultant for MIS Training Institute teaching courses in the IT Audit curriculum and taught in the University of Maastricht's International Executive Master of Finance and Control Program. Professor Gelinas also has taught at the University of Tennessee and at Vesalius College, Vrije Universtiteit Brussel, in Brussels, Belgium. Professor Gelinas has published articles on interorganizational collaboration and coordination infrastructures, accounting information systems, use of technology in business education, technical communications, and information privacy. These articles have appeared in academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Information Systems, Issues in Accounting Education, IS Audit & Control Journal, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Technology Management, International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Journal of Information Systems Education, Technical Communications Quarterly, and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. In 2003, Professor Gelinas received the Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award from the American Accounting Association. He has made presentations and conducted workshops at the International Conference of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and at ISACA's Computer Audit, Control, and Security (CACS) conferences as well as for other professional groups. Professor Gelinas was a member of the U.S. expert panel that reviewed Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) and has conducted COBIT workshops throughout the world.

Steve G. Sutton, Ph.D., CPA, is the Myers Chair of Accounting Information Systems at The University of Connecticut. He received his BSA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Professor Sutton has also taught at the University of Calgary, Arizona State University West, Bryant College, and Texas Tech University. His audit and information systems consulting experience with Mayer Hoffman McCann, CPAs, and KPMG Peat Marwick, along with experience as a computer operator with Deere & Co., support his teaching and research interests in accounting information systems, auditing, and accounting education. Professor Sutton is the founding and continuing editor of Advances in Accounting Information Systems and a founding and continuing co-chair of the annual Accounting Information Systems Research Symposium. In addition, he serves as a departmental editor for the journal, Database. Professor Sutton is also a co-author of the monograph, Productivity and Quality Measurement Systems for Internal Auditing (Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation) and co-editor of another monograph, Behavioral Accounting Research: Foundations and Frontiers (American Accounting Association). Professor Sutton has published over 50 journal articles and made over 50 conference presentations on accounting information systems, auditing, and computers in accounting education. He has made continuing education presentations for both the international association and Phoenix Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the American Public Power Association, as well as several public accounting firms. He is a past chair of the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association. Among Professor Sutton's hobbies are 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, travel, skiing, and hiking.