Business analytics

This unit will prepare you for the rapidly evolving work environment by exploring business and accounting analytics. You will engage with analytical techniques including prescriptive, predictive, descriptive, and visual analytics. Using hands-on techniques, you will learn to process big data, including data location, extraction, cleansing, integration, modelling, and visualisation. You will employ these techniques to discover relevant patterns and gain insights for decision making. Business applications to accounting, finance, audit and management decision-making will be explored. The unit utilises Microsoft Excel and data mining and visualisation packages.