Integrating AIS Course Content Using Concept Maps

Abstract

This paper introduces the use of a concept mapping technique to suggest an approach to teaching accounting information systems.  The concept mapping technique has been successfully used elsewhere in the field of education, and has characteristics suited to the instruction of accounting information systems.  Included in the paper are illustrations of the use of concept mapping technique to show how students’ knowledge of accounting can be leveraged to logically integrate in their education the information systems view of accounting.