Program Overview

Information Security, Assurance, and Analytics Option

The Information Security, Assurance, and Analytics (ISAA) option prepares students to excel in increasingly tech-reliant accounting careers, including auditing, consulting, managerial accounting, financial management, and financial reporting. The program builds on the business, accounting, and computer skills classes required of all accounting students and prepares students specifically to apply information technologies to accounting, management, and other business tasks.

Overview

This option is available within the Accountancy major at the following location:

• Corvallis

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Recognize entrepreneurial opportunities for new business ventures and evaluate their potential for business success.
• Understand the implementation issues, including financial, legal, operational, and administrative procedures involved in starting new business ventures.
• Communicate effectively and professionally in business situations through physical or virtual presence, writing, speaking, listening, and electronic media.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead by using team-building skills and facilitating collaborative behaviors in the accomplishment of group goals and objectives.
• Recognize basic concepts and theories related to business ethics and social responsibility.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the ethical behavior appropriate to specific business situations.
• Identify and analyze business problems and opportunities and formulate recommendations for courses of action.
• Use quantitative and qualitative tools and methodologies to support organizational decision-making.
• Assess how organizations create value in their global supply chains through the integrated production and distribution of goods, services, and information.
• Describe the concept of competitive advantage and how it may be achieved through strategic and tactical methods.
• Analyze the information content of organizational processes.
• Define markets and apply marketing concepts and principles using a customer focus to effectively sell products and services.
• Recognize and appropriately respond to ethical, legal, and strategic concerns relating to human resource and organizational management.
• Make basic investment and financing decisions for a business using financial management concepts and methods.

Plan of Study Grid

The plan of study includes the following courses:

Second Year

• BIS 272: BUSINESS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (or equivalent programming course) - 4 credits

Third Year

• BA 370: BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS OVERVIEW - 4 credits
• BIS 371: BUSINESS DATA MANAGEMENT - 4 credits

Fourth Year

• ACTG 420: IT AUDITING 1 - 4 credits
• ACTG 428 or BANA 270: ADVANCED AUDIT ANALYTICS 1 or INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - 4 credits
• BIS 471: BUSINESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING - 4 credits
• BIS 472: INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY - 4 credits

Option Code

The option code for this program is 051.

Total Credits

The total credits required for this program are 28. Courses may double-count between the Accountancy major and this option.