Data Analytics for CPAs: Introduction and Descriptive Analytics
Available Until
Self-study
1.00 Credits
Member Price $49.00
Non-Member Price $59.00
Overview
In this course, we’ll dive into the world of analytics, equipping you with the skills to assess your clients’ analytics maturity and leverage techniques for accurate forecasting. You’ll also learn how to spot opportunities where optimization techniques can enhance financial decision-making. We’ll cover the essentials, from understanding analytics fundamentals to exploring descriptive analytics methods like text mining, multidimensional clustering and statistical outlier detection. This course is part of a training series that introduces CPAs and financial professionals to descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, covering analytics benchmarking, forecasting methods and optimization for decision-making in capital investment and inventory management.
Highlights
- What is analytics?
- Analytics Maturity Benchmarking: how CPAs can benchmark their clients' analytics maturity
- Three types of analytics: descriptive, predictive, prescriptive
- Descriptive analytics: text mining, multidimensional clustering, maybe statistical outlier detection
Objectives
- Determine the level of analytics maturity of a client organization
- Recognize how to make and evaluate a forecast using analytics techniques
- Identify when optimization techniques can improve financial decision-making
Notice
This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.
Non-Member Price $59.00
Member Price $49.00