The 12-credit-hour Graduate Certificate in Accounting Data Analytics is one of Gies' fully-online, credit-bearing graduate certificates designed to reach learners who already hold an undergraduate degree and who don’t want, or need, a full graduate degree.
Organizations collect masses of data. Accounting professionals who know how to uncover, analyze, and communicate insights from those data to drive decision-making are in high demand. In the Graduate Certificate in Accounting Data Analytics program, you’ll develop standout data analytics capabilities and perform at the leading edge in the fast-changing field of accounting.
You’ll get the very latest from some of the best faculty in the world, teaching at the master’s level. Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois is consistently ranked among the top three accounting programs in the country and is a leader in data analytics.
Start Dates
August, October,
January or March
Program Fees
$5,960 - $10,200 USD
(Depending on electives)
Credit Hours
12
Duration
8 Months
This certificate is designed for:
- Accounting professionals looking to update skills
- Business leaders without accounting backgrounds
- Learners who are preparing for the CPA exam
Learn leading-edge analytics skills
You’ll develop exceptional accounting data analytics capabilities, including the ability to:
- Frame problems in ways that can be answered by data and produce actionable results
- Create interactive visualizations in Excel and Tableau to explore data, identify patterns and relationships, and communicate findings
- Apply Python skills for assembling business data, including financial statement data, stock data, loan data, point-of-sale data, and more
- Share results within Jupyter Notebook, a popular development environment for data analytic software such as Python and R
- Use fundamental programming skills, such as mathematical operators, functions, conditional statements, and loops using Python
- Conduct statistical analyses for quantifying patterns and relationships observed in the data
Course Details
You can complete the program in as few as eight months. This certificate is comprised of two required courses and eight credit hours of additional electives. This translates into a commitment of about ten hours per week.
Required courses
The following two courses are required for this graduate certificate.
ACCY 569: Data Driven Decisions in Accounting
ACCY 576: Data Preparation for Accounting
Elective Courses
Learners should select eight hours of elective courses from the list below.
ACCY 577: Machine Learning for Accounting
ACCY 578: Accounting Analytics Applications
MBA 563: Data Toolkit: Business Data Modeling & Predictive Analytics
MBA 564: Applying Analytics Across Business Functions
MBA 565: Infonomics