CPE SESSION 13: SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Integrating SAP, ERP, & SEM Technology in Accounting Curriculum

Description/Objectives:
The interactive CDs developed to date prospectively mimic SAP, ERP, and SEM software products by incorporating actual software screen shots and accurate navigation steps. The CDs educate in the ways that technology can be used to enhance access to financial and nonfinancial data and customized reports (including Executive Information Systems, aka executive dashboards/cockpits, etc.) to support tactical and strategic decision making. The "concept" is that every school cannot afford to develop and maintain technology related course content, and publishers are not doing so. Thus, this initiative is centralized cooperative effort to develop and maintain materials in the face of constant change. The CDs are designed to educate the faculty as well as the students and require no investment of faculty time in formal training outside the proposed CPE session. The session provides hands-on access to and illustration of the CDs, following in class use by numerous schools. Last year we had both faculty and students who had used the CDs in attendance to provide feedback. Similar plans are in process for this year. Translations of the CDs into Spanish are in process, through the help of Instituto de Empresa (Madrid).

Format/Structure:
The session will consist of three parts: (1) demonstration of Instructional CDs, (2) best-practices feedback from faculty and students who have used the CDs, and (3) hands-on access for participants to "test drive" the CDs/software.

Intended Audience:
Faculty frustrated trying to find ways to integrate meaningful, nonvocational ERP and SEM technology into accounting classes, and who lack a technology background and/or requisite time to re-train and develop course deliverables.

Presenters:
Philip Reckers, Arizona State University
Bart Hartman, St. Joseph University

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