Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
This course will be an overview of how the increase in data and data analysis tools are changing the skills needed in the profession. Learners will understand how to apply the business analytics cycle to identify questions, identify and prepare data, perform analysis and communicate results.
The course will explain how prescriptive, descriptive and predictive analytics are used in business and how decision-making can be enhanced using data analytics in auditing, financial, managerial and tax accounting.
Topics Include:
- Data and Analytics in Accounting
- The Evolving Accounting Skill Set
- Implications for the Accounting Profession
- Understanding Data
- Creating a Data Analysis Strategy
- Types of Data Analytics
- Decision Models
- Other Considerations
Key Takeaways
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
- Define data and analytics in the accounting profession and identify how the accounting profession skill set is evolving.
- Define data sources, metrics and measurement scales and identify methods for data preparation and transformation.
- Describe the data analysis strategy and the steps needed in each phase.
- Explain how decision-making can be enhanced using data analytics in auditing, financial/managerial, and tax areas of accounting.
- Identify risk considerations in data analytics and describe methods to address those risks.
Who Will Benefit
Business and finance professionals who want to understand and prepare for the growing role and focus on effective analytics.
Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
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Speaker(s)
Dr. Ann Dzuranin, PhD, CPA, is the KPMG Endowed Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. She earned her B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University, her MBA from New York University and her Ph.D.from the University of South Florida. Ann is a CPA (NJ) with 15 years of experience in both public and corporate accounting. Ann conducts behavioral research in management accounting decision-making and the ways in which accounting information systems interact with those decisions. Her publications include Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Accounting Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance and the Journal of Accounting Education.