Predictive analytics is causing a fundamental shift in accounting, from historical record-keeping toward forward-looking financial information. By helping accountants to predict results and make ...

Importance of analytics skills. Expertise in business analytics, such as business intelligence and data mining, was deemed mandatory for at least some accounting and finance employees by 61% of more ...

To address the accounting shortage, technology offers a potential avenue in the form of automation, cloud solutions and advanced data analytics. Automation can handle routine tasks such as data entry ...

Quinnipiac University has woven technology into all accounting courses and encourages accounting majors to minor in data analytics. “And most of them do,” said Nelson Alino, QU’s accounting ...

When firms start chasing efficiency at the expense of expertise, or lean too hard on data and lose sight of relationships, ...

In the public accounting domain, automation will reduce the need for large numbers of new, right out of college 'tick and bash' hires. Smaller staff-to-partner pyramids may be coming and absent of new ...