Graduate Course Materials

Joel Lanz is currently an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus. He is currently teaching graduate school courses that are required for the Master of Science Degree in Accounting.

“ACC 750 – Advanced Accounting Information Systems”
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, College of Management, School of Professional Accountancy, Fall 2005

This course provides an advanced examination of accounting information systems (AIS). It includes issues relating to the design and development of AIS, various considerations during the systems development life cycle, and the impact of new technologies on AIS applications and controls.

"ACC 754 – Fraud Examination,"
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, College of Management, School of Professional Accountancy, Summer 2005

The nature of fraud, elements of fraud, fraud prevention, fraud detection, fraud investigation, design and use of controls to prevent fraud, and methods of fraud resolution are examined in this course. The role of fraud examination to perform a variety of antifraud and forensic accounting engagements including, but not limited to, investigating suspected fraud, investigating assertions of fraud, developing fraud loss estimates and performing acquisition due diligence are also considered.

"ACC 753 – Advanced Assurance Services and Computer Auditing,"
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, College of Management, School of Professional Accountancy, Fall 2004

This course provides an advanced review of assurance services and an in-depth analysis of computer auditing. Students study current and emerging applications of assurance services, including information systems assurance. The course also reviews the collection and evaluation of evidence using statistical sampling techniques and hands-on computer assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATTs).

Previously, Joel Lanz was an Adjunct Professor at Pace University's Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Systems. He taught courses that satisfied requirements for the Masters of Science in Information Systems and the Masters of Science in Accounting Information Systems. (The programs at Pace have been designated as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency.) Courses instructed included:

"IS 639 Information Systems Planning & Policy,"
Pace University, Fall 2002/Spring 2003

This course focuses on the relationship of the information systems plans and strategies to those of the organization. Topics include: IS perspectives, planning and control, application development and maintenance, systems management and control, IS strategy, computer center administration, social and legal considerations, telecommunications directions, the information center.

“IS 623 Information Systems Design & Development”
Pace University, Spring 2002/Fall 2002

Organizations depend on computer information systems and technology. This course first instructs students in current methods for analyzing business situations and systems to model complete and coherent definitions of systems requirements. Next, learning focuses on methods for developing logical and physical designs of these systems. Finally, these designs form the bases for systems development and implementation. The course emphasizes software engineering best practices in creating and implementing robust, reliable, and appropriate systems regardless of technology, size, scope, type, and geographic distribution.

"IS 622 Structured Systems Design,"
Pace University, Summer 2002

Structured design is concerned with the architecture of programs and systems, that is, the way in which a system should be broken into modules, which modules, relationships between modules, information passed between modules and the packaging of these modules into executable programs leading to minimum cost systems. Topics include module coupling and cohesion, transform centered systems, transaction centered systems, span of control/ scope of effect, packaging and optimization considerations of design, structure and program quality, software reliability, management advantages of structured design methodology.

Earlier in his career, Joel Lanz was an Adjunct Instructor in the Graduate Performance and Information Systems Auditing Program at New York University (NYU) where he taught courses on Information Technology Auditing and Business Continuity Planning.

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