ECON160 CM - Accounting Data Analytics

This course will introduce students to the use of analytics tools for deriving insights from accounting data and for more effectively performing audits. Companies produce a wealth of data on customers and company performance, and the next generation of accountants needs to be equipped with tools for organizing and analyzing the data to improve company performance and audit its financial accounts. We will explore the topics of data retrieval, cleanup, preprocessing, and validation, before getting into data visualization, internal and external audit analytics, and predictive modeling/machine learning. Not open to students who have completed CSCI 036 CM, CSCI036 PZ, or ECON 122 CM.

Prerequisites: ECON 120 CM or equivalent, ECON 086 CM

Offered: Every year

Credit: 1

Course Number: ECON160 CM