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<body stylesrc="Initial_No_Frames.html">  <div align="left"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="115" height="95%"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><a href="#TOP" target="Initial_No_Frames"><font size="1" face="Arial"><strong>TOP</strong></font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><font size="1" face="Arial"><strong> <a target="_parent" href="../AIS11.html#copyright">COPYRIGHT NOTICE</a></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><font size="3" face="Arial"><strong> <a target="_parent" href="../AIS11.html#Initial Computer Assignment">BACK</a></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" align="top" width="110" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"><em>Last updated</em></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="115"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"><em> 09/01/11</em></font></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="15"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" width="15" height="1"></td> <td valign="top" width="450"> <div align="left"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="450"><p align="center"> <img border="0" src="../../../images/RU_RBS_r1a.jpg" width="462" height="75"><br> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" width="300" height="1"></p> <h1 align="center"><a name="TOP"><font color="#000099">Initial Computer Assignment</font></a></h1> <h2 align="center">33:010:458<br> <font size="6">Accounting Information Systems</font><br> Fall 2011<br> </h2> <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" hspace="10" width="1" height="1"></td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2">The following initial computer assignment is due September 12. It is intended partly to provide an opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with some of the Internet tools that we will be using this semester, and partly to provide me with information that will be used in administering the course and in making team assignments for group projects. Consequently, although the assignment will not be graded there will be a 15 point penalty for failure to complete it by the due date. In addition, no credit can be accrued towards group projects or class participation until your registration form is submitted.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" hspace="10" width="1" height="1"></td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">1</td> <td valign="top">If you have not already done so, obtain an e-mail account from the university in the usual way.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">2</td> <td valign="top">Using Firefox, Internet Explorer or any other browser available to you, visit my Home Page at <a href="http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~gillett/" target="_top">http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gillett</a>.<br> Click where indicated to visit the brief biography page, and click on that page (try the photograph if you don't want to read the biography!) to reach the main Departure Board. From there, select Courses and then choose Fall 2011: Accounting Information Systems. Since this is the page you will probably need to visit most, you may wish to bookmark this page if you are using your own machine.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">3</td> <td valign="top">Scroll down the page, noting the materials currently available (highlighted in color) and additional materials that will be made available to you later in the semester (in black). Print the course Syllabus, read it, and bring it class with you next time and on September 12.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">4</td> <td valign="top">Print the course Timetable, read it, and bring it to class with you next time and on September 12.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">5</td> <td valign="top">Print this Initial Computer Assignment page.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">6</td> <td valign="top">Send me email if you are not already enrolled in Blackboard, and be sure to give me your first and last names, your Rutgers ID, and your email address. Visit the Blackboard site for this class, and note that the materials available on my personal Web Site are also available to you from Blackboard. Visit the Discussion Board for this class, and print the Welcome message you find there. You are encouraged to use this Discussion Board as a way of sharing problems, solutions and other matters with the class. Postings to the Discussion Board will be considered as an element in determining class participation for the semester. Please exercise discretion when posting messages that will be read by many other people.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">7</td> <td valign="top">In order to gain access to the main textbook for the semester, which is an on-line text, you will need to register with the publishers at <a href="http://www.cybertext.com">http://www.cybertext.com</a>. For your convenience in accessing the text during the semester, a hot link may be found on the <a target="_parent" href="../AIS11.html#On-Line Textbook"> Accounting Information Systems 2011</a> page. If you use this link to <i>register</i>, you will need to move back one or two pages in Cybertext's site, using the arrow icon they provide.<br> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" hspace="10" width="1" height="1"><i>Resist any urges you may have to provide Cybertext with fictitious information about your identity or to use someone else's - if the information you provide them does not match your Rutgers ID and the information you have provided me, you will not be able to receive credit for the on-line Chapter quizzes!</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">8</td> <td valign="top">Finally, use the form that I have provided (via the link at the bottom of the <a target="_parent" href="../AIS11.html#Contacts">Accounting Information Systems 2011</a> page marked "If you have not already done so, please go to the following page to <font color="#000000"> <a target="_parent" href="http://gillett.rutgers.edu/courses/fall11/Registration.html">register</a></font> <a href="http://rbsweb2.rutgers.edu/gillett/courses/fall01/Registration.html"> </a> yourself.") to submit data that will be used to build my grading database and to allocate students to groups for the semester.<br> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" hspace="10" width="1" height="1"><i>Please note that this step creates a grading database for the class - and you need to complete it even though you are registered for the class itself and enrolled in Blackboard.</i><br> <img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" hspace="10" width="1" height="1">It is essential that you carry out this step satisfactorily to complete the assignment. Please do not register yourself more than once: be sure that you have correctly answered ALL the questions before you submit the form by clicking on the button at the bottom. PLEASE ENTER YOUR ID AS A SEQUENCE OF NUMERICAL DIGITS WITHOUT "-". BE SURE YOU CORRECTLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT A.I.S. AND INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING SECTIONS - THE DEFAULT ANSWER IS "NONE" IN BOTH CASES! (ALSO, DO NOT FORGET TO SELECT EITHER MALE OR FEMALE!!)<br> </td> </tr> </table> </div></td> <td valign="top" width="5" height="23"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" width="5" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td valign="top" width="5" height="23"><img src="../../../images/dot_clear.gif" width="5" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> </div>  </body>