Accountancy Data Analytics

Overview

This innovative, technology-based accounting master’s degree is designed to give you recession-proof career stability with transferable skills to maximize your earnings potential.

Accounting firms and clients prefer employees who can provide added value by delivering data analytics and data science services and insights in a more robust way. In this online data visualization degree program, you will develop the ability to communicate such information with understandable and actionable authority, so you can land a high-value professional role without the need for additional certification.

Ideal for students who already have an undergraduate accounting background, this online accounting master’s degree enables you to earn valuable semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam. Prior to enrollment, you should check specific licensure requirements in your state. Choose from electives designed to broaden the knowledge you will need, while learning real-world applications from highly qualified faculty, many of which have extensive experience as practicing CPAs.

Program Learning Outcomes

In this Accountancy Data Analytics degree program of Northern Kentucky University, you will:

• Build expertise in accounting analytics, strategic management accounting, ethics, research, standard setting, and practice

• Gain a working knowledge of business intelligence systems

• Learn to apply accounting concepts to mergers, consolidations, acquisitions, and partnerships

• Acquire a foundation in the methodology, sources, and analysis of tax research

• Study database design and implementation of relational, object-oriented, and semantic databases used for business decision-making in an enterprise system

• Learn methods for the design, analysis, and visualization of organizational data for business planning and decision-making purposes

• Study investigative accounting procedures and techniques used in litigation support including financial reporting fraud, damages for personal injury, testifying as an expert witness, and evidence management

• Understand business analytics processes, including problem modeling, tools and techniques for analysis, and effectively communicating insights

• Examine concepts of partnership taxation, understanding partner bases and liabilities, and distribution sales or exchanges of interest

• Prepare for CPA practice in the areas of regulation, financial accounting and reporting, auditing, and attestation