ICAG Paper 1.2 BMIS case studies

ICAG Paper 1.2 BMIS · Put your knowledge to work in context.

Paper 1.2 Business Management Information Systems (BMIS) is a paper in the professional examination programme of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), a body established by an Act of parliament, ICAG Act 2020, Act 1058. ICAG has provided accountancy training at both technician and professional levels since the mid-sixties, and its examinations are open to registered students who meet the entry requirements, including a minimum age of 16 and the stated academic passes or credits. The ICAG Paper 1.2 BMIS case studies are 5 cases and about 5,137 words.

Golden Pod Cocoa Processing Ltd: ERP go-live that nobody trusts

Golden Pod Cocoa Processing Ltd is a Takoradi-based processor with 480 staff and revenue of GH₵210 million. Five months ago it went live with the finance, procurement and inventory modules of a mid-tier ERP, replacing a 12-year-old system.

977 words, about 5 min 2

Sefwi Rural Bank: ransomware with no clean backup

Sefwi Rural Bank has nine branches, 240 staff and total assets of GH₵180 million. Its core banking application is hosted by a vendor in Accra, but everything else sits on a single head-office server: scanned KYC documents, loan files, payroll, board papers and the email archive.

1,018 words, about 5 min 3

Jubilee Specialist Hospital: a 47-sheet payroll nobody owns

Jubilee Specialist Hospital in Kumasi employs 640 staff and runs a monthly payroll of GH₵4.9 million. Payroll is produced in a 47-worksheet Excel workbook built by a management accountant who resigned eight months ago.

995 words, about 5 min 4

Adom Chemists Ltd: cloud decision with eleven unreliable outlets

Adom Chemists Ltd runs 14 pharmacy outlets - three in Accra and eleven in regional towns - from a group finance office in Accra. Its accounting package runs on a seven-year-old server in a converted storeroom with one air-conditioner; the server failed twice last quarter, once for 14 hours.

1,036 words, about 5 min 5

Sunrise Insurance (Ghana) Ltd: one administrator, thirty-one unapproved changes

Sunrise Insurance (Ghana) Ltd has 210 staff and six branches. All IT is handled by one IT Manager who reports to the Finance Director, holds domain administrator rights, writes the SQL reports underwriters rely on, and approves his own hardware purchases up to GH₵20,000.

1,111 words, about 6 min