Ecommerce Policies, Procedures, & Practices Reports

The purpose of these reports (presentations) is to help you become more familiar with the policies, procedures, and practices that support effective and efficient ecommerce implementations. After watching other presentations and preparing your own, you should understand how to properly organize and present information to an audience of knowledgeable information professionals. You should also have improved your abilities to work cooperatively, resolve conflicts, and manage your efforts so as to accomplish your team’s goal.

I will assign each of you to teams of two or three people (depending on enrollment) during the second week of the term. Each team will be assigned a day when the members will be responsible for presenting a brief presentation about a current ecommerce issue and the relevant policies, procedures, and practices. The team is responsible for accessing the information from appropriate web sites, including (but not limited to):

• The CPA Technology Advisor

• The CPA Journal

• The Journal of Accountancy

• AICPA Top Technology Initiatives

• The SANS Security Policy Project

Each team must prepare a printed summary using the format provided in my sample presentation. The summary must be written in your words, not a cut-and-paste effort. Each team must give me a first draft of that summary 1-week before the presentation’s scheduled delivery, then revise the draft per my review.  (Note that I will review it only once and my review is focused on the content and the organization, not the writing style or use of English grammar.) The final version of the written document must be sent to me at least 24-hours before the presentation so that I can distribute it to the class before the presentation. The presentation will be to the class and should take no more than five minutes. (Each team must submit a computer file copy of its PowerPoint file via an e-mail attachment by noon of the date of the presentation.)

Grading will be based on the team’s ability to provide a complete and accurate summary to the class and on each individual’s ability to communicate the information in the presentation to the class. (I will use the appropriate grading criteria listed on the Professional Communications Grading Criteria web page.) All team members must speak and the tone must be appropriate for an audience of aspiring information professionals.

Teams

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