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BS4S04: Management Systems and Financial Information for Decision Making(2014-15)

Julie Prior (Module Tutor for Management Systems)

Assignment 1

A critical analysis of information systems within an organisation and its potentialimpact on management decision making

Guidelines

1. Select an organisation with which you are familiar and consider the different typesof information systems within that organisation.Students in part-time employment can (with their employers permission) cananalyse a system within their own organisation.

2. Critically analyse the information systems in relation to their potential impact onmanagement decision making. (Depending on the size of the organisation and

the information available, you can focus on one or more information systems.)

Key content areas for the report will be discussed during the weekly timetabledclasses.

3. Present your findings in a report format, following the structure and guidelinesprovided on Blackboard.

4. The word count is a maximum of3,000 words.Only the main bodyof the report contributes to the word count (i.e. executive

summary, contents page, reference list and appendices are not counted).

5. Deadline:Sunday, 30 November 2014, 11.59pm.

Further information

You must acknowledge and appropriately cite all sources used within your report,using the Harvard method; see the University of South Wales UniversityguidetoHarvard referencing.

Only online submission via TurnItin (set up in the module on Blackboard) will beaccepted.

TurnItin has been set up to allow multiple submissions, so you can takeadvantage of the Originality Report.

If you have any queries, you should email me for an appointment(Julie.Prior@southwales.ac.uk)well in advance of the deadline.

You will be able to access your feedback and grade online via GradeMark, nolater than 20 working days after the submission deadline.

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BS4S04: Management Systems and Financial Information for Decision Making(2014-15)

Julie Prior (Module Tutor for Management Systems)

Your work will be assessed using the following criteria:

1. Knowledge and understanding of:

Importance of key management information systems.

Value of the information to different levels of management decision making.

Applying theories and principles of management decision making in anorganisational context.

2. Analytical/Report writing skills:

Has the questioned been answered?

Appropriate and relevant information used to address the question. (Ideas aresuccinct, clear and inter-related, not just reproduced information).

Shows appropriate use of theory in practice. (Examples of how key issues areconsidered and applied in the organisation selected).

Range of evidence used to support analysis (including appropriate use ofreferencing).

Information is logical, well structured and presented in an appropriate businessformat.

Marking Grid Guidelines Weighting

Executive Summary Succinct summary of report. 5%

Introduction Purpose of the report.

Sets organisational context.

10%

Main findings Identification of information systems

Application of theories and principles of

information systems linked to organisational

context (appropriate links between theory,

evidence and organisational examples).

Outline of advantages and disadvantages

60%

Conclusion Concise summary of findings 5%

Recommendations* Clear rational for recommendations.

Based on evidence from main findings.

10%

Overall presentationof the report

Information coherently structured.

Professionally presented (visual presentation,

writing style, grammar, spelling, etc).

Accurate referencing within the narrative and

in the reference list.

10%

* If you are analysing an organisation, with which you are not very familiar, you can

exclude the recommendations section. The 10% of marks will be reallocated to the

Main Findings section (=70%).