2007 Handbooks

This unit provides students with key concepts involving the use of information systems and database management in electronic interchange of financial data (EDI). We introduce the history of EDI and business responses to forces driving the new technologies. The level of assumed knowledge is experience with both database applications (at a preliminary level) and with the study of business through its components (business processes). The prerequisites listed have been chosen accordingly.

The topics will include personal productivity tools in electronic communication; Australian Tax Office and GST imperatives in electronic commerce; secure payment transactions and the roles of banks and value added networks; order/supply protocols and the roles of standards, forms, databases, reports and accounts; issues in database consistency and database design; international trading and the significance of barcodes, EAN standards, supplier codes; electronic commerce references and links.

The unit will have a strong practical component involving small group interaction in exercises involving business applications and information technologies. Besides communication skills, students will develop skills with web browsers and database applications using Microsoft Access.