Analytics Certificates

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EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

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Non-credit

Accounting & Auditing Analytics Certificates

The Executive Education program at Bellarmine's Rubel School of Business is now offering two new certificates! The Certificate in Accounting Analytics reviews concepts and tools for data analysis using spreadsheets, statistical programming, and visualization and applies those tools to practical examples in financial and managerial accounting. The Certificate in Auditing Analytics reviews analytic concepts and tools being used in auditing and applies those tools to internal controls, substantive testing, and risk assessment. The certificate also surveys how topics such as blockchain, machine learning, and AI are impacting the audit profession.


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Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate knowledge of terms, methods, and tools for data management and analysis.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of trends in data management and analysis.
  • Demonstrate how to acquire, transform, analyze, and visualize    data.
  • Demonstrate how to solve problems in accounting and auditing using data analytics.

Course Methodology

DIRECTED SELF-STUDY

The self-development of knowledge, experiences, opinions, and ideas sharpens analytical skills, improves judgment, and enhances conceptual skills. This approach also allows students to apply theoretical constructs from their courses to real-world problems.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

The ability to communicate effectively is important in the business world. Students show the development of this skill making oral presentations.

INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION

Although highly quantitative, data analytics is not an exact science. Students need the ability to assess the strength and weakness of various analytical techniques, along with when and how each technique should be utilized. Students will be exposed to business situations requiring reflection, analysis, and action to gain experience in applying analytical tools in practical situations.

Certificate In Accounting Analytics

MODULE 1: FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING ANALYTICS

Price $1,500

Class topics include:

  1. Introductory Concepts
  2. Excel, SQL, XBRL
  3. Relational Databases
  4. Big Data, Hadoop and Data Lakes

Class assignment topics include:

  • Excel, SQL, and XBRL

Date of Module:

  • Saturday, September 18th 10:30am - 3:00pm
  • Virtually on Zoom
MODULE 2: APPLICATIONS IN ACCOUNTING ANALYTICS

Price $1,500

Class topics include:

  1. Tableau
  2. Power BI
  3. R
  4. Python

Class assignment topics include:

  • Tableau, Power BI, R, and Python

Date of Module:

  • Saturday, October 2nd 10:30am - 3:00pm
  • Virtually on Zoom

Certificate In Auditing Analytics

MODULE 1: ANALYTICS AND AUDITING I

Price $1,500

Class topics include:

  1. Risk analysis, audit evidence, professional standards,and audit procedures.
  2. Machine learning, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology. Macro-environmental trend analysis (PEST Framework) Analysis of Auditing.

Class assignment topic includes:

  • A PEST Analysis of Auditing

Date of Module:

  • Saturday, October 23rd 10:30am - 3:00pm
  • Virtually on Zoom
MODULE 2: ANALYTICS AND AUDITING II

Price $1,500

Class topics include:

  1. Applications of analytics/software in auditing to improve audit effectiveness.
  2. AIS auditing, continuous auditing, and automated audit procedures.
  3. Emerging issues and evolving technologies in audit analytics. Emerging Issues in Auditing.

Class assignment topic includes:

  • Emerging Issues in Auditing

Date of Module:

  • Saturday, November 6th 10:30am - 3:00pm
  • Virtually on Zoom

Contact

Dr. David Collins,
Director of Certificate of Accounting Analytics Professor of Accounting
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Alexandra Moro
Associate Director, Graduate and Executive Education Programs Rubel School of Business, Bellarmine University
E-mail

About Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University is a vibrant community of educational excellence and ethical awareness that consistently ranks among the nation’s best colleges and universities. Our students pursue an education based in the liberal arts – and in the distinguished, inclusive Catholic tradition of educational excellence, the oldest and most rewarding in the western world. It is a lifelong education, worthy of the university’s namesake, Saint Robert Bellarmine, and of his invitation to each of us to learn and live In Veritatis Amore – in the love of all that is beautiful, true and good in life.