Data Analytics for Accounting

Catalog description

This course will provide students with an understanding of data analytics terminology as well as hands-on experience with data analytics tools and techniques. Data analytics in accounting explores how data can be used to interpret and predict financial performance. Students should leave this course with the skills necessary to use data to translate accounting and business problems to management for enhanced decision making. While there will be use of software tools in this course, the focus is on business and accounting concepts, not algorithms or statistical math.