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Big Data, data analytics, and computerization are revolutionizing accounting. To survive the revolution, accountants must focus on how they can improve: (1) the veracity of Big Data by concentrating on measuring and verifying data and (2) the effectiveness of data analytics by focusing on analyzing, interpreting and communicating data. Accounting educators must also revolutionize the accounting curriculum to produce accounting graduates with an analytics mindset. This new curriculum focuses on higher levels of thinking per Bloom’s Taxonomy to develop critical thinking skills. Such a curriculum will:
This new curriculum requires business acumen to provide context as well as technological adeptness to analyze the data.
Vernon Richardson is Professor of Accounting and the S. Robson Walton Distinguished Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He received his B. S., Masters of Accountancy and MBA from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught students at the University of Arkansas, University of Illinois, Brigham Young University, University of Kansas, and the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai).
Professor Richardson is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published articles in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Financial Analysts Journal, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Marketing and the American Business Law Journal.
Wednesday, 2 October, 2019 5:45 pm - 7:00 pmE. Australia Time
University of MelbourneCarrillo Gantner TheatreBasement, Sidney Myer Asia Centre761 Swanston StParkville, Victoria 3053Australia