MGTA631
Accounting Analytics
0.5 Credit

This course provides students with the opportunity to apply data analytics tools, such as OLS, logistic and probit regressions, simulations, and optimization analysis, to accounting information in order to address a variety of problems. These problems span the various functional areas of accounting, including financial and managerial accounting, auditing and taxation. The types of problems that students may be exposed to include, but are not limited to, using data to detect earnings management in financial information, assess the financial performance, position and/or credit risk of an entity, estimate cost functions, identify cost overruns, perform budgeting simulations, optimize short run production, search for patterns, outliers and anomalies for the purpose of assessing audit risk and/or performing audit procedures, and to assist in tax planning and compliance.