ACM5260 Digital accounting
Faculty of Business and Economics
ACM5260 Digital accounting is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Malaysia. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Malaysia
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ACM5260
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ACM5260
No unit lists ACM5260 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must be enrolled in B6033 Master of Digital Business to undertake this unit
Overview
This unit is related to the information systems in managing the creation, storage, recall, and dissemination of reports. Digital accounting involves collecting information as evidence for accountability, transparency, compliance with regulations and the use of information for decision making. This unit will explore the issues and challenges with managing and using several technologies such as cloud computing, Enterprise Resource Planning, robotic process automation, data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Malaysia | Evening |
Assessment
- Presentation20%
- Written40%
- Project40%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
examine the role and design of digital accounting systems in analysing and providing decision support to managers
- 2
assess and recommend improvements to enhance the efficiency of accounting information systems' processes and controls in the context business environment
- 3
demonstrate effective communication skills through individual and/or group activities related to digital accounting systems, and convey a clear and comprehensive understanding of ACM5260 topics in an individual summative assessment task.
- 4
demonstrate effective collaboration in team settings to enhance performance during group activities related to ACM5260 Digital Accounting Systems.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.
This unit engages you in actively applying your knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where you apply your knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but you need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
Learning resources
Required resources
We will be practising Open educational resources (OER) as textbook for this unit.
Altschuller, S. (2018). Accounting information systems: Opportunity and risk. In The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in Business (pp. 309-318). Routledge.
Beynon-Davies, P. (2019). Business information systems. Red Globe Press.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Siew Eu-Gene
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ACM5260?
ACM5260 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ACM5260 offered?
In 2025, ACM5260 runs in Semester 2 at Malaysia.
How much work is ACM5260?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ACM5260 have an exam?
No. ACM5260 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.