ACCT 270 - Data Analytics for Accounting

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. While there will be some use of tools in this course, the focus of this class is on concepts, not algorithms or statistical math.

Prerequisite
ACCT 170 and ACCT 180 “C” or better; and BE 146 “C” or better, or Instructor consent

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours
3
Lab Hours
0 lab hours per week

Academic Level
1.2