Data Management & Analysis

This introductory course explores the processes, methodologies and practices used to organize and transform data into information to support business decision-making, with a focus on the accounting function specifically. The course consists of a combination of conceptual and applied practice. Students will apply a data analytics model to solve business questions, by learning how to ask the right questions, extract, load and transform data, and present data using visualization tools. Students will work with relational database, spreadsheet, statistical programming, and visualization software programs. Technologies utilized focus on end-user analytics and data visualization.