At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
* Have a sound knowledge of business intelligence and big data concepts
* Understand different tools for storage, retrieval and analysis for financial reporting and audit purposes
* Understand the importance of legacy technologies for big data handling
* Deal with structured and unstructured databases in a reporting environment
* Interpret data visualization metrics and output (Tableau ©)
* Formulate management-supportive recommendations based on financial reporting data analysis
The access to better and faster technology is reshaping the way but also the quality of audit and financial reporting work.
Big 4 audit firms as well individual corporations are ramping up investments at a significant pace to increase their market shares and at the same time to respond to increasinly tough stances by regulators on reporting failures.
This course provide you with an insightful view in the way business intelligence and big data focus can help businesses in reaping the benefits of the contemporaneous technology-driven reporting environment.
This course is not designed to turn accountants into programmers, but rather to prepare them to interpret big data and communicate well about this with top management decision-makers on the one hand and IT programmers on the other hand.
