Read the Nolan and McFarlan article, Information Technology and the Board of Directors (Links to an external site

Read the Nolan and McFarlan article, Information Technology and the Board of Directors (Links to an external site.), as well as this week’s lecture. In an eight- to ten-page paper (not including the title and reference pages):

• Provide a summarization of the role accounting information systems plays in providing accurate and effective accounting information to internal and external stakeholders in context to the selected IT mode;
• Select one of the four modes of information technology and analyze the mode focusing on three of the following concepts;
• Discuss the concept and be supported with scholarly research.
• Provide a practical example for each of the following concepts:
  • Systems approach to quality accounting information systems.
  • Internal controls focusing on preventive, detective and corrective approaches to accounting information and accounting information systems.
  • Risk management- contingency plans for disaster recovery and security of information and information systems.
  • Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.