Accounting combines three things many people enjoy: problem-solving, money, and working with people. And thanks to the use of data analytics in accounting, these parts of the job are more exciting, ...

Every day, executives receive spreadsheets filled with cash flow reports and income statements, but without context, these numbers remain meaningless, a squandered opportunity to guide strategy. In ...

The Master of Science (MS) in Accounting Analytics at UMass Lowell is designed for the modern-day accounting professional prepared to thrive at the intersection of accounting, data analytics and ...

As technology continues to evolve, it promotes changes to business models and surprises those who are unprepared. Businesses change their strategies and the way they operate. New threats and ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

It is well-established that accounting is a data-intensive stream. It is filled with numerical, non-numerical, statistical and non-statistical data. There is data involved in invoices, purchase orders ...

Editor’s note: In 2015, Extra Credit addressed the issue of whether accounting students needed to learn to code. This year, we decided to revisit that question to see how perspectives might have ...

What if you could turn Excel into a powerhouse for advanced data analysis and automation in just a few clicks? Imagine effortlessly cleaning messy datasets, running complex calculations, or generating ...

A colleague recently asked me, “How do we move, as an industry, from being historians to being advisors?” I believe data analytics will play a major role in this transition. Data analytics is the ...