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This interdisciplinary research seminar (offered jointly with the Ernst & Young Endowed Assistant Professorship for Digital Data Analysis) deals with the IT-based auditing of business processes. For the control and assessment of financial reporting activities regarding compliance (e.g. conducted by external or internal auditors), the process organization increasingly gains in importance. Whereas traditional audit activities are often executed manually, the application of IT-based approaches like process mining promises great potential. Therefore, this seminar examines methodical questions from the process mining world. The students will work in groups consisting of master students of the FACT and the IIS programme on hands-on case studies.

Learning objectives and skills

The students

• learn about topics in the context of information systems and financial auditing.
• can adopt one of different research methods (literature-study, empirical or design research) in order to address a specific research question or research problem.
• apply methods of process mining on data sets.
• will train their research, writing, and presentation skills.

Method of examination

Seminar paper (70%) and final presentation (30%)

Module compatibility

Master International Information Systems: Extension courses

Application

Application is done via StudOn: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs1952527.html

Kick-off meeting

Friday, 17.10.2017, 9:45 a.m.
Room 2.429

Subsequent meetings are planned to be on 24.10.2017 (intro on research methodology), 21.11.2017 (presentation on research questions & method), 09.01.2018 (intermediate presentation) and 06.02.2018 (final presentation) and will be held in room 2.429.