Financial Accounting Analytics Lab I

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This course utilizes technologies such as Excel to complement the material covered in B ACC 311. The course provides students with a more thorough understanding of financial accounting theory by engaging students to apply the underlying concepts learned in class to data and exercises. Students will work with larger data sets, accounting subledgers, and more complex calculations that are aimed to support students' learning of how the accounting information exists in a more real-world setting. The logic underlying the analytic techniques encompass transferrable skills that can be utilized across a variety of software platforms. Prerequisite(s): declared School of Business majors. B ACC 211 or equivalent, including prior exposure to journal entries and principles of financial statement preparation is required. Corequisite(s): B ACC 311.