Accouting Data Analytics ACTG 320-826

PUCPR (Two year business students from Brazil)

Develop data analytics skills for accountants. This specialization develops students’ skills of data preparation, data visualization, data analysis, data interpretation, and machine learning algorithms and their applications to real-world problems.

Course Content Goals and Objectives:
• Recognize when and how data analytics can address business questions.
• Comprehend the process needed to clean and prepare the data before analysis.
• Recognize what it meant by data quality, be it completeness, reliability, or validity.
• Perform basic analysis to understand the quality of the underlying data and their ability to address the business question.
• Demonstrate ability to sort, rearrange, merge, and reconfigure data in a manner that allows enhanced analysis.
• Identify and implement an approach that will use statistical data analysis to draw conclusions and make recommendations on a timely basis.
• Report results of analysis in an accessible way to each varied decision makers and their needs

This is a 3rd Party billing. PUCPR will pay $150 per student per course. Students will need toi purchase McGraw Connect Access.