Temple MIS | Vasant Kumar | Activity https://community.mis.temple.edu/members/vasant-kumar/activity/ Activity feed for Vasant Kumar. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:35:24 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 80cff9e87853692eb0def84f5d2e4051 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/05/07/week-14-class-presentation/ Tue, 07 May 2013 02:17:08 -0400 Presentation

]]> 0 d0b7a3cc9be55ec6f37582e64c460ab2 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/30/week-13-class-presentation/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:51:43 -0400 Class Presentation

White-board

BooksForAll “Top Down” and “Bottom Up” Risk Assessment – Workshop

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White-board

ERP Audit Case Study

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]]> 0 28858a87ccaf321d40c29472cbc533c0 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/14/reading-week-14/ Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:24:57 -0400 Topics

Open Area of Interest for Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation

 Review of the IT Application Controls – Lesson Learned

Reading

None

]]> 0 dc445be21ebcfb477b0428a6587d732f Vasant Kumar commented on the post, ICE 5.1 Telling a Story through Visualization, on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-9/#comment-16 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:19:34 -0400 Good article on the DR. Certainly, DR and BCP are much needed elements of any enterprise system, when availability of the applications need to be higher. For example, for customer facing applications or CSR […]

]]> 943dfb6bd5e0074cb127ee9642f7b5e7 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/09/group-project-3/ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:33:31 -0400  
Group Project 3: Audit BooksForAll

Assigned:  Apr 8, 2013

Due: Monday Apr 29, 2013 before the Class by Email to Vasant

Vasant’s Email:vasant.kumar@temple.edu

]]> 0 692484d1d43235691408eefd06af3721 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/09/week-10-class-presentation/ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:27:22 -0400 Class Presentation

]]> 0 f87584acb56ed8ff21af1dfc398fb965 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/02/quiz-2/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:01:53 -0400 Date of Quiz:  Monday 4/8

16 multiple choice questions.

Material covered  from Week 5 to Week 9 (after Quiz1)  wil be included in Quiz. For week 9, BI and DSS are not included, as they will be covered in the […]

]]> 0 c4bbcbdd9568c93f2d2752c9246c8646 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/02/week-9-clas-presentation/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:22 -0400 Presentation

 

White-board

Java application vs. traditional applications

]]> 0 cc09322a9c201bba9b20b2efd69ff29f Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-13/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:46:09 -0400 Topics

KPIs across SDLC phases

 KPIs and Best Practices across software development and acquisition  including those used during feasibility and business case, requirements, design, development, and […]

]]> 0 3da1702f9e0fc188a1d3c148849469bf Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-12/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:42:25 -0400 Topics

Case Study 4

 Detailed Audit Recommendation of ABCDXYZ  Corporation

Reading

Reading: John Kyriazoglou. “IT Strategic and Operational Control,” Section 10.6 IT Audit Assignment for Organization […]

]]> 0 c4b38d25d0c9d9c2ea3a172d80b7eb07 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-11/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:40:48 -0400 Topics

Case Study 3

 An IT Audit Case Study  involving an ERP system

 Reading

Reading: Nick Gehrke. “The ERP Auditlab – A Prototypical Framework for Evaluating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems […]

]]> 0 a3c3f4bc2253d46609f0233f10bbe03d Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-10/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:38:38 -0400 Topics

Understanding  of and controls associated with mainstream Business Applications

 Brief summary of Corporate Applications Packages: Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Purchase Accounting System , […]

]]> 0 e93c47974bcc0383fc0c75c390eab4bd Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/04/01/reading-week-9/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:36:29 -0400 Topics

Understanding  of and controls associated with mainstream Business Applications

 Mobile Application  (Group Project 1 – Group 3 presentation and discussion)

 Brief summary of some other Business […]

]]> 0 ff271a5d4580c1cf4d270450f338f2b6 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/03/26/group-project-2/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:24:26 -0400 Assigned: Mar 25, 2013

Assignment: Auditing your PC or Laptop

Due:    April 15th, 2013 before the Class by Email to Vasant

Note: In addition, Class Presentation will be required

Vasant’s Email:  <a […]

]]> 0 7a1d6c3e584b698c8385d748aa3d8a25 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/03/26/329-class-presentation/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:21:27 -0400 Presentation

]]> 0 137fa67513db5fc7b47a2940a6dcc3e2 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/03/19/318-class-presentation/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:51:18 -0400 Class Presentation

 

White-board Pictures

e-Commerce Architecture

EDI Architecture

Systems Communication Evolution

]]> 0 082abb469ef192777c2be44baf341081 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/03/05/individual-assignment-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:40:23 -0500  
Assigned: Mar 4, 2013

Sub: Australian State Government  Case: 3 problems and recommended controls   for each  Government Agency

Due: Monday Apr 1, 2013 before the Class by Email to Vasant

Vasant’s […]

]]> 0 dbb0c86823014055e3822845319f90d8 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/03/05/week-6-presentation/ Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:34:02 -0500 Presentation

(Note: We will cover First Case History (Understand Current Trend in Application Development) in the next class.

 

White Board Pictures

All things Auditors Do

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Please go over in advance. We will discuss in in the next class on 3/5.

]]> 0 c23999d3d2b273aa8c05d41a690f08b2 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/24/week-8-reading/ Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:48:59 -0500 Content

Understanding  of and controls associated with mainstream Business Applications

 Finance Application Internet Banking  (Group Project 1 – Group 2 presentation and discussion)

 Brief summary of […]

]]> 0 51fd030f2a3450ac1d686d4f49aaef18 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/24/week-7-reading/ Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:45:26 -0500 Content

Understanding  of and controls associated with mainstream Business Applications:

 Retail Application B2C

e-Commerce (Group 1 presentation and discussion)

 Brief summary of other Retail […]

]]> 0 35b5c87497a75f770b246829162ecada Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/24/week-6-reading/ Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:34:42 -0500 Content

Case Study 1

 Understand Current Trend in Application Development

 

 Case Study 2

 An IT Audit Case Study  of Australian State Government

Reading

Reading: Ian Finley et al. “Agenda for […]

]]> 0 7de0026fab0eafe7dc82678658d68ed4 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/24/reading-class-5/ Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:18:29 -0500 Content

Auditing  Application Control

 Observing and Testing User Performing Procedures

 Data Integrity Testing

 Testing Application Systems

 Continuous Online Auditing

 

Reading

Reading: […]

]]> 0 1e9854ea8f5cdf0a043566162871ea65 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/19/group-project-1/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:09:55 -0500 Assigned: Feb 18, 2013

Topic –

Understanding  of and controls associated with mainstream Business Applications:

Group 1 – Retail Application B2C e-Commerce

Group 2 – Online Banking Application

Group […]

]]> 0 0022be5ede7cf0661c20b8a6768c4236 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/19/week-4-218-class-presentation/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:01:50 -0500 Presentation

White-board

Design, Development, and  Testing Control – Class Exercise

]]> 0 71e6551a377efe51c82ecc0c457e53a7 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/12/quiz-1/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:50:30 -0500 Date of Quiz: Monday Feb 25, 2013

16 multiple choice questions. Material covered throgh 2/18 wil be included in Quiz.

]]> 0 99d03c700c3d48b793edd62946775e61 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/12/individual-assignment-1/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:45:27 -0500 Date Assigned – 2/4/13

Assignment: Penny-wise-card-services UI Auditing

Date Due – Monday, 2/18/13 Before the Class. PLease email your work to vasant.kumar@temple.edu

]]> 0 99ea9866bb46dae9117b561aa52b0bc5 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/12/week-3-class-presentation/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:38:42 -0500 Presentation

 

White-board Diagram

Input, Processing, Output Controls

]]> 0 64f794259abda8a67fb6788adb6d4e80 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/05/class-presentation-24/ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:57:08 -0500 Presentation

 

White-board

Internal Audit Scope

]]> 0 42401b6146f2c2192df4d4f2ad044ab4 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/02/04/reading-24/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:32:04 -0500 Topics

Audit and Control Steps

Risk-based Auditing

Stages of Audit

 Application Audit Components

 

Reading

Reading/Review: Davis et. al Chapter 2

 Reading/Review : CISA Review Manual  – […]

]]> 0 ddd1515e892c734f926cd7918fd34fe7 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/01/29/week-1-class-presentation/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:00:34 -0500 Presentation

 

 

Link to MIS5203 Blog (for reference)

http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/

]]> 0 18413134641bf65d8aa90a8f4817cd48 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site Business Application Controls http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5204sec011spr13/2013/01/09/week-1-reading/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:42:50 -0500 Topics

Phases of SDLC related to Acquisition, Development, and Implementation

 

Feasibility and Business Case Development

 

Project and portfolio management techniques, and […]

]]> 0 0b083c5d5cb830b244d593905723d3fe Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/28/reading-list-529/ Mon, 28 May 2012 21:37:06 -0400 ISACA Topics

Project control frameworks, practices and tools contd.

 Project success factors and risk

 Project risk management practices as it relates to Software Development

Reading List

Reading – […]

]]> 0 3a440f0cb70a65b3e5327b455e0e0bed Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/28/reading-list-531/ Mon, 28 May 2012 21:33:42 -0400 ISACA Topics

Understanding SDLC phases related to project management

 Traditional SDLC Phases

 

Reading List

Reading – CISA Review – section 3.5, 3.51

Reading:  Cascarino – Chapter […]

]]> 0 106ec36ea02ae1c935117e60b041bb80 Vasant Kumar commented on the post, ICE 5.1 Telling a Story through Visualization, on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/22/individual-case-study-1-feasibility-study/#comment-4 Mon, 28 May 2012 18:06:53 -0400 Are there multiple stores or just one?

Re: “The company sells 850 toys through the Retail Store in the Eastern Unites States”

You could assume that the company sells toys through multiple retail stores. […]

]]> a4a01bcc2a93da86d989a1a056b7ec22 Vasant Kumar changed their profile picture https://community.mis.temple.edu/activity/p/61090/ Sat, 26 May 2012 02:28:32 -0400 0 fdc3eeb2353111de17c1a18e5bc9b36b Vasant Kumar changed their profile picture https://community.mis.temple.edu/activity/p/61089/ Sat, 26 May 2012 01:59:10 -0400 0 657e2f8ba878b78831c0419695cbde88 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/24/group-case-study-1-business-casse-and-rfp/ Fri, 25 May 2012 03:47:33 -0400 Details

Assigned: May 24, 2012

Due:  Tuesday June 5, 2012 before the Class by Email to Vasant

Vasant’s Email:  vasant.kumar@temple.edu

]]> 0 0acc38e236ae2418536628eb3de678c3 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/24/week1-2-presentation-and-selected-white-board-pictures/ Fri, 25 May 2012 03:40:17 -0400 Here is the presentation that we used in the class today.

 

Selected white-board pictures

Auditing Basics

Matrix Organization

Sample Hardware Diagram

Three Key Stakeholders for an IT Project

]]> 0 ebd817aea648f6c8a7d0e0e57fa3f47b Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/21/reading-materials/ Wed, 23 May 2012 21:33:38 -0400 Introduce Group Projects. The Group Project would follow certain SDLC phases.

 

Reading – CISA Review – section 3.3, 3.4

Reading:  Cascarino – Chapter 16

 

Project Management Areas:

<a […]

]]> 0 644130a9c419cd071167797cecee1d48 Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/22/individual-case-study-1-feasibility-study/ Wed, 23 May 2012 03:25:34 -0400 Details

Assigned: May 22, 2012

Due:  Tuesday May 29, 2012 before the Class by Email to Vasant

Vasant’s Email:  vasant.kumar@temple.edu

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MIS5203 Week 1-1 presentation v3 Final

White Board pictures from  today’s class

 Cost Benefits Basics

Feasibility Study and Business Case Key Focus […]

]]> 0 4d9840b7f642e63cc8d12320ef04543a Vasant Kumar wrote a new post on the site System & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 1 http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5203sec011sum12/2012/05/21/course-syllabus/ Tue, 22 May 2012 03:32:33 -0400 Hello Everyone! I look forward to our first class tomorrow. The class starts in the Alter  Hall, room 404 at 5:30 PM.

Here is the course syllabus.

The reading list is included for each class, and  will get […]

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