ACCTG 191 - Accounting Analytics

Upper Division

Prerequisites
ACCTG 161 with a grade of C- or higher

Data has proliferated in business and managers and accountants need to understand the implications for decision-making and tap into the data to provide better insights into a firm/client/customer/supplier, etc. This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of data analytic thinking and terminology as well as hands-on experience with data analytics tools and techniques. Students should leave this course with the skills necessary to translate accounting and business problems into actionable proposals that they can competently present to managers and data scientists. The focus of this class is on concepts as well as various data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, Weka, Tableau/Power BI, IDEA Audit Software, iXBRLAnalyst, Structured Query Language (SQL) using SAS, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Excel 2016, and MySQL, and Python, and more.

Term Offered
Fall

Course credits: 1