The role of information within the organization has undergone significant transformation within the last decade. Transaction-based reporting has been augmented with information about products, customers, markets, suppliers, and organizational know-how. These newer sources of information have changed how managers use information. Historically, managers controlled the organization using the business transaction record. Today, however, information is a vital enabler of an organization's strategy. As a result, managers must be competent in using information technology in order to identify and lead newer strategic opportunities.
The UT information management area is designed to complement the students undergraduate accounting major through the information management collatoral. The information management collateral will provide students an introduction to using and applying information in organizations, with special emphasis upon identifying, retrieving, structuring, and using information to support decision-making. In addition, the collatoral provides coursework in business applications and tools. Thus, students selecting this collateral will be positioned to interface between users and application developers, apply technology within other functional disciplines, work within e-businesses, or conduct business information and process modeling.
Students taking the Information Management collateral are required to complete the following:
| Information Management 342 |
Introduction to Database Systems |
Information Management 442* |
e-Enterprise |
| Information Management 443 |
Business Applications and Tools |
Sample 4yr plan
*In the spring of their third year, students normally
make the decision whether to enter the job market
upon graduation or apply to the Master of accountancy
(MAcc) program. Accounting 414 and 431 are both
prerequisites to the MAcc program; therefore, students
planning to enter the MAcc program should take
Accounting 414 or Accounting 431 (whichever was not
taken to satisfy the major requirement) instead of
Finance 455 in the finance collateral, instead of
Information Management 442 in the information
management collateral, instead of Management 471 in
the international business collateral, and instead of
Logistics 421 in the logistics collateral.
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