Accounting combines three things many people enjoy: problem-solving, money, and working with people. And thanks to the use of data analytics in accounting, these parts of the job are more exciting, ...

Accounting analytics is crucial for answering questions based on the massive amounts of data a company gathers—gaining insights and predicting outcomes, among other results. The newly revised master ...

Every day, executives receive spreadsheets filled with cash flow reports and income statements, but without context, these numbers remain meaningless, a squandered opportunity to guide strategy.

The recent announcement from Microsoft that they have now integrated Python into it’s Excel spreadsheet software has opened up a wealth of new applications for data analytics, automation and number ...

It’s no surprise that technology and big data have become ubiquitous in the day-to-day operations of most businesses, regardless of size or industry. Data scientists, data analysts, and non-IT ...

It is well-established that accounting is a data-intensive stream. It is filled with numerical, non-numerical, statistical and non-statistical data. There is data involved in invoices, purchase orders ...

Many employers now want accounting hires to develop an analytics mindset. An analytics mindset starts with understanding the importance of analytics and data to the accounting profession, but also ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

Editor’s note: In 2015, Extra Credit addressed the issue of whether accounting students needed to learn to code. This year, we decided to revisit that question to see how perspectives might have ...

SciPy, Numba, Cython, Dask, Vaex, and Intel SDC all have new versions that aid big data analytics and machine learning projects. If you want to master, or even just use, data analysis, Python is the ...