Fundamentals of Business Information Systems
Course Description
Upon completion of study each student will become a part of a business system. It is therefore necessary to understand the basic business functions of the company: planning, procurement, production or provision of services, sales, finance, asset management, human capital management, customer relationship management, business planning and reporting. How to calculate value added tax (VAT), how to calculate payroll.
Which software is used to support business functions, and which software is available on the market. How does the selection, implementation and maintenance of business software. What are the trends related to business software (cloud computing).
Learning Outcomes
- Students will understand the core business processes in the company.
- They will be able to correctly interpret the basic business documents (purchase or sales order, invoice, business plan, etc.), and they will be able to make a simple profit and loss statement.
- They will understand what kind of software is now available on the market to support business functions (ERP, CRM, EPM, HCM, etc.).
- They will understand what is the purpose of software now available on the market.
- They will understand activities for the selection of business software.
- They will be able to prepare a list of activities for the selection of business software.
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
Theoretical fundations and paradigms exposed during the lectures are illustrated with practical examples.
ExercisesApplying the knowledge acquired on lectures on practical examples.
SeminarsWriting and presentation of seminar papers.
Grading Method
Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
Class participation | 0 % | 20 % | 0 % | 0 % | ||
Seminar/Project | 0 % | 30 % | 0 % | 30 % | ||
Mid Term Exam: Written | 50 % | 20 % | 0 % | |||
Final Exam: Written | 50 % | 20 % | ||||
Final Exam: Oral | 10 % | |||||
Exam: Written | 50 % | 40 % | ||||
Exam: Oral | 30 % |
Week by Week Schedule
- Business system, business information system.
- Business functions: sales, customer relationship management.
- Exercise: Company functions simulation (master data, sales).
- Business functions: purchase, production, service provision.
- Exercise: company functions simulation (purchase, service provision in project-oriented organization).
- Business functions: finance, planning and reporting.
- Exercise: business functions simulation (invoicing, tax calculation).
- Exercise: business functions simulation (financial statement preparation).
- Business functions: human capital management, asset management.
- Exercise: Business functions simulation (recruitment, salary calculation).
- Software used to support business functions.
- Selection process, implementation and maintenance of software used to support business functions.
- Exercise: selection of business software.
- Presentation of seminar papers.
- Presentation of seminar papers.
Study Programmes
University undergraduate
[FER2-HR] Computer Engineering - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Computer Science - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Computing - study
Skills
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Control Engineering and Automation - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - study
Skills
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electrical Power Engineering - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electronic and Computer Engineering - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electronics - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Information Processing - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Software Engineering and Information Systems - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Telecommunication and Informatics - module
Skills
(5. semester)
[FER2-HR] Wireless Technologies - module
Skills
(5. semester)
University graduate
[FER3-HR] Computing - study
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER3-HR] Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - study
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER3-HR] Information and Communication Technology - study
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Computer Engineering - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Computer Science - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Control Engineering and Automation - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electrical Engineering Systems and Technologies - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electrical Power Engineering - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electronic and Computer Engineering - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Electronics - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Information Processing - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Software Engineering and Information Systems - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Telecommunication and Informatics - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER2-HR] Wireless Technologies - profile
Skills
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
Literature
Željko Panian, Katarina Ćurko (2010.), Poslovni informacijski sustavi, Element, d.o.o.
(2018.), Materijali predmeta dostupni na fakultetskom intranetu.,
Lecturers
For students
General
ID 164418
Winter semester
3 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
14 Lectures
0 Seminar
16 Exercises
0 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
Grading System
87,5 Excellent
75 Very Good
62,5 Good
50 Acceptable