Data Analytics for Accounting
UndergraduateTAS-BEA2132025
Previously TAS-BFA221
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025,
- 15 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $3,128
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Data Analytics for Accounting
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply data analytics to accounting data to solve business problems.
- Critically evaluate data analytics inputs, processes and outputs.
- Create compelling stories based on data analytics using data visualization tools.
- Module 1: Decoding the Distinctions: Data Analytics vs. Business Analytics
- Module 2: Using Data Analytics to Ask and Answer Accounting Questions
- Module 3: Master the Data: An Introduction to Accounting Data
- Module 4: Accounting Data: Data Types and How They Are Used
- Module 5: Master the Data: Preparing the Data for Analysts
- Module 6: Perform the Analysis: Types of Data Analytics Part 1
- Module 7: Perform the Analysis: Types of Data Analyses Part 2
- Module 8: Descriptive Analytics
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 organisations. 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.
- Data Storytelling and Strategic Insights Presentation (40%)
- Business Analytics Plan (25%)
- Full Analytics Report for Decision Support (35%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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