Assignments

All members of a team receive the same points for the exercise submissions. If you feel that one or more members are not doing their fair share, please do the following 2 things:

1. Send email to all members of your team (.cc me) indicating that you will be submitting a team member evaluation form.  This step gives all members of the team the option of completing a form.
2. Complete and submit the following form to me by email.

All responses will be kept confidential. 

 

Click Here for the Team Member Evaluation Form

Reminder:  Final Exercise – Risk / Control Matrix is due (via e-mail) on Thursday December 15  at 5:00 pm.

Background

Context is Global Bike Inc. (GBI) that we’ve used in all other course assignments.

You are an auditor in GBI’s internal auditing team.  As a result of your work at GBI you’ve uncovered a significant risk in one of GBI’s business processes.  You’ve made this risk known to your manager who requested that you investigate what potential changes / controls should be put in place to address the risk.

Assignment

You have the opportunity to address the audit committee of the board to discuss the risk you’ve uncovered in your work and recommended changes / controls.  Unfortunately, the agenda is packed and you only have 5 minutes to make your presentation.

Deliverables 

1. Brief (1 slide?) Powerpoint slide(s)
2. Brief script of what you plan to say to the audit committee

Grade

Treat like a ½ credit Assignment Exercise.  Full credit can yield extra 4 points in final grade (e.g. raise a grade of 90 to an 94)

Grading Rubric

• Substantive content related to class content           2
• Concise, clear message appropriate for audience   2
• Convincing argument, message                                  1

Due   Send deliverables to professor by Tuesday December 13

Reminder:  Exercise 4 – Segregation of Duties is due (via e-mail) on Thursday November 10  at 11:59 pm.

Reminder:  Exercise 3 – Journal Entries is due (via e-mail) on Thursday October 27  at 11:59 pm.

Each week as part of our learning, I’ve included at least one Real World control failure example.  Starting in Week 7 (October 17) it will be your turn to continue this learning by contributing your own video presentation of a Real World Control Failure.

You are responsible to:

• Send me (by e-mail) proposed 2+ alternate weeks when you would like to post your presentation (by October 11).  I’ll prepare a final schedule and publish in the blog’s roster section.
• Find a real world example of a business process control failure (vs. just a hacking control failure example).
• Prepare a brief review of the failure.  This PowerPoint (PPT) template contains all the content components / points required in the presentation.
• In video format, create a presentation of your review / story.  Post that video as a comment to this blog post prior to class time of your week (based on an agreed sign-up schedule).

Note: 5% of the course grade is earned by this project.  Evaluation is based on:

1. Including the required content components
2. Clear, concise presentation of the control failure ‘story’ and lessons learned
3. Originality in presentation of the control failure ‘story’

 

Reminder:  Exercise 2 – Order to Cash Process is due (via e-mail) on Thursday October 13  at 11:59 pm.

Reminder:  Exercise 1 – Procure to Pay Process is due (via e-mail) on Thursday September 22  Saturday September 24 at 11:59 pm.

In class this week you noticed some discrepancies in the Exercise 1 Guide vs. the submission sheet.  I just updated (on the Assignments -> Exercise 1 page) the guide to clarify a few questions and assure the questions were fully synchronized to the submission sheet.
Note: the submission sheet did not change.

Updated (September 16 11:53 am) Exercise 1 (Procure to Pay) Guide.
(updated  with clarified questions and synchronized to submission sheet)

Reminder:  Exercise 1 – Procure to Pay Process is due (via e-mail) on Thursday September 22  at 11:59 pm.