Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT education

Vanlengen, Craig A. (2005) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT education. Issues in Informing Science & Information Technology, 2. pp. 591-598. ISSN 1547-5867

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Abstract

Even though information technology (IT) educators have been teaching basic principles of information systems for over 20 years, business organizations have chosen to ignore or not implement them. By not integrating information systems and allowing uncontrolled manual intervention it was easier to commit the frauds and the financial scandals of the late 1990's and early 2000's. The frauds and financial scandals have resulted in a large increase in business regulation with many compliance requirements and possible fines and jail sentences for non-compliance. IT educators need to take some lessons from their accounting colleagues (Titard, 2004) and modify IT curriculum to take advantage of the compliance environment to focus on the basic principles of creating quality up-to-date information for organization decision making and to see them implemented.

Item Type:	Article
Publisher’s Statement:	© 2005. Copyrighted by Informing Science.
Keywords:	compliance; Curricula (Courses of study); Decision making; financial fraud; fraud; information systems; information technology -- Study & teaching; IT curriculum; IT Education; Sarbanes-Oxley; SEC compliance
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	The W.A. Franke College of Business > Business Divisions > Computer Information Systems
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2015 05:20
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/267

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