The combination of computerization and automation of many accounting tasks as well as the explosion of available data is changing the accounting profession. To address this, accountants are increasingly required to have an analytics mindset to perform their jobs. Building upon the fundamentals of accounting learned in prior courses, Introduction to Data Analytics for Accounting explores accounting concepts through the application of data analytics. We recognize students need to not only develop the skills to ask the right questions, but to learn how to use tools they may encounter in the workplace such as Excel®, Tableau®, and PowerBI® to examine and analyze data, and then effectively interpret results to make business decisions. This analytics mindset is crucial early in the study of accounting to meet the demands of today's accounting jobs.
Vernon J. Richardson is a Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the G. William Glezen Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and a visiting professor at Baruch College. He received his BS. Master's of Accountancy, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a PhD 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, and University of Kansas and internationally at Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Aarhus University, the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai), Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, and the University of Technology Sydney.
Dr. Richardson is a member of the American Accounting Association. He has served as president of the American Accounting Association Information Systems section. He previously served as an editor of
The Accounting Review and is currently an editor at
Accounting Horizons. He has published articles in
The Accounting Review, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and
Journal of Marketing. Dr. Richardson is also a co-author of McGraw-Hill's
Introduction to Data Analytics for Accounting, Data Analytics for Accounting and
Introduction to Business Analytics textbooks.
Katie L. Terrell is an instructor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She received her B.A. degrees in English Literature and in the Spanish Language from the University of Central Arkansas, and received her MBA from the University of Arkansas. She expects a doctoral degree by 2019. She has taught students at the University of Arkansas, Soochow University (Suzhou, China), the University College Dublin (Ireland), and at Duoc UC, a branch of the Catholic University of Chile (a del Mar, Chile).
She is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published a Statement on Management Accounting for the Institute of Management Accountants on managing organizational change in operational change initiatives. She has recently been recognized for her innovative teaching by being the recipient of the Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Award for innovative graduate-level accounting teaching practices in 2016. She has worked with Tyson Foods, where she held various Information System roles focusing on business analysis, project management for ERP implementations and upgrades, and organizational change management.
Ryan A. Teeter is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches accounting information systems, auditing, and accounting data analytics. Prior to receiving his PhD in Accounting Information Systems from Rutgers University, he worked at Google in Mountain View, California. He has since worked with internal audit organizations at Siemens, Procter Gamble, Alcoa/Arconic and Fedex helping to develop robotic process automation programs and data analytic solutions.
Dr. Teeter is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published articles in the
Journal of Strategic Technologies in Accounting and
Issues in Accounting Education. He has received grant funding for data analytics research from PwC.
