ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AUDIT, FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AND VALUATION

Catalog description

This course will demonstrate a strategic viewpoint on how AI can be comprehensively integrated within audit management, leading to better automated models and forensic accounting. The student will develop and build an innovative, automated accounting strategy using artificial intelligence as the foundation. This course will serve as the capstone for the program with a final research project focused on AI and forensic accounting. Topics that will be covered in this course are Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Smart Contract, Big Data and Analytics, Machine Learning, Visualization, Drones, Internet of Things, Information Security, and Continuous Audit. The relationship between these technologies and accounting/auditing will be explored. This course contains lab projects about using software/programming languages commonly used in practice to perform data analytics. The lab projects require Python, Tableau, ACL and Excel. Admission to the MS program is required to take this course. Students must achieve a B or better in this course to remain in the program.