Applying Data Analytics in Accounting

This course explores how modern technologies are transforming accounting practice. We begin with a survey of accounting fundamentals and emerging analytics topics, including process mining, text analysis, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. Next, we move into visualization, summarization, and filtering techniques for control testing and auditing, using tools like Python and Pandas to analyze and interpret accounting data. We then explore automation in accounting—from generating invoices programm

• Understand analytic challenges in accounting
• Perform audit and control testing with Python and SQL
• Execute accounting automation using Python
• Apply data governance principles