Data Analytics for Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-BFA7472024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Data Analytics for Accounting
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Differentiate data analytics techniques used to address contemporary business challenges.
- Compose compelling data-driven stories to provide business advice to a client.
- Hypothesize solutions using business data analysis for contemporary business challenges.
- Week 1 - Introduction to Big Data and data analytics
- Week 2 - Using data analytics to ask and answer accounting questions
- Week 3 - Master the Data: An introduction to accounting data
- Week 4 - Accounting Data: Data types and how they are used
- Week 5 - Presentation week
- Week 6 - Master the data: Preparing data for analysis
- Week 7 - Perform the analysis: Types of data analytics
- Week 8 - Review of statistics and introduction to Excel statistical
- Week 9 - Performing the analysis: Descriptive analytics
- Week 10 - Performing the analysis: Diagnostic analysis
- Week 11 - Predictive analytics
- Week 12 - Performing the analysis: Prescriptive analytics
- Week 13 - Share the story
In today’s data economy, businesses are blessed and cursed with an abundance of data. This proliferation of data is creating new professions and changing existing professions. One profession that is witnessing a rapid change due to the explosion of data is accounting. While there exists a plethora of data available to businesses, accounting data remains a source of data that is reliable, relevant and accessible for all organizations. This subject will introduce students to the very recent changes ushered in by the big data revolution to the accounting profession, introduce students to how data analytics is being applied to accounting data, develop their skills in analysing and presenting accounting data to management and also develop their abilities to critically evaluate the underlying accounting systems and processes related to both the collection, creation, processing and production of accounting data within organisations.
- Online Exam (35%)
- ASX100 Company Case Study (30%)
- Data Analytics Case Study (35%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-MPA-MAS-2024 - Master of Professional Accounting
Elective
- TAS-FIN-MAS-2024 - Master of Finance
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Weekly pre-recorded lectures; 1 x 1-hr Orientation Workshop (Wk 1); 4 x 3-hr Workshops
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-MPA-MAS
PostgraduateTAS-FIN-MAS