Accounting IS Big Data
Conference 2017
The Ever-Changing Big Data Ecosystem--Blockchain, Cyber, AI, Tax, SEC, Integrated Reporting
The Accounting Function of the Future-How to be prepared
Gain Insights from 3 Companies-Aera Technology, Infor, and Workday and learn How They See Around the Corner to determine when to move and what are their keys to success in data and analytics
New this year: 12 Hands-on Workshops Friday afternoon and Accounting Supply Chain Panel
Back by Popular Demand: Young Professionals Panel, New Big Data Cases, and Technology Visionaries Panel
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Accounting IS Big Data 2017 Conference Program
Time | Topic | Speaker | |
Wednesday September 6, 2017Registration will be open from 4pm – 7pm in front of Salon D & E (Conference location). | |||
Thursday September 7, 2017Registration will be open from 7am – 5pm in front of Salon D & E (Conference location). | |||
| 8:00 | Welcome | ||
The Ever-changing Big Data Ecosystem: What is happening now? | |||
| Integrated Reporting Framework | Jyoti Banerjee, <IR> | ||
| Big Data—More Data More Insights: How is the SEC using big data to enhance its analytical capabilities and what public data sets might be of interest for academic analysis? | Mike Willis, Securities and Exchange Commission | ||
| Cybersecurity Update | Steven Zaki, PwC | ||
| Update | KPMG | ||
| AI & Cognitive Technologies Update | Julia Kokina, Babson College | ||
| Blockchain-What’s Happening Now | Will Bible, Deloitte | ||
| Blockchain-Transformative Innovations | Griffin Anderson, ConsenSys | ||
See, Think, Transform | |||
| Historical Model | Susan Crosson, AAA | ||
| Big Data Ecosystem Circle | Julie Smith David, AAA | ||
3 Perspectives | |||
| Infor-A Traditional Company Transformed | Christina Van Houten and Shahriar Rafimayeri | ||
| Workday-A Highly Disruptive Information Company | Mark Nittler | ||
| Aera Technology-The Self-driving Enterprise | Frederic Laluyaux | ||
Lunch | Panel of Young Professionals | Justin Hopton, PwC Evan Palmer, Deloitte & Touche LLP KPMG | |
Seeing Around the Corner? When to move, keys to success | |||
| Infor | Christina Van Houten and Shahriar Rafimayeri | ||
| Workday | Mark Nittler | ||
| Aera Technology | Frederic Laluyaux | ||
| Panel Recap Table Activity Set up | Brian Sommer, TechVentive | ||
Planning Scenarios | |||
| Table Activity and Debrief | Brian Sommer, TechVentive | ||
Evening | Social Networking and Reception Fun | ||
Friday September 8, 2017 | |||
Technology Visionaries: What’s next? | |||
| CEO/CFO/SVP Panel | Craig A. Cuyar, Omnicom Group Jim Saber, JP Morgan Chase & Co Julie Smith David, AAA | ||
Accounting Visionaries: What’s Next? | |||
| Accounting Supply Chain Panel | Shaun Budnik, KPMG Kevin Coombs, HireVue William Dilla, Iowa State University Gretchen Handlos, Indiana University Dan O’Leary, University of Southern California | ||
Accounting Function of the Future: how new tech changes the way work gets done | |||
| TBA | KPMG | ||
| Transformation in the Internal Audit Function | Neil White, Deloitte | ||
| Advanced Tax Analytics- Technology Demonstration | Bjarne Berg, PwC | ||
| Automating Accounting- Reporting with Datawatch Monarch | Doug Ellis, Datawatch Frank Moreno, Datawatch | ||
| The Beautiful Science of Data Visualization with Tableau | Vlad Usatin, Tableau | ||
| EY Helix General Ledger Analyzer for Students | Catherine Banks, EY | ||
| The Impact of Cloud ERP in the Classroom & Beyond | Tina Rolling, Alma College | ||
| Accounting Data Analytics | Katie Terrell, University of Arkansas and Ryan Teeter, University of Pittsburgh | ||
What did we Learn? Looking forward | |||
| Big Ideas | Susan Crosson, AAA | ||
Lunch | More In-Depth Discussions | ||
Workshops | |||
| 1:00-2:50 | Workshop I | ||
| 1 | Teaching Accounting Analytics with Tableau The demand for graduates with data analytics and visualization skills has never been higher. Data mining, statistical analysis, and data presentation are among LinkedIn’s list of top skills that can get you hired in 2017. And Forbes recently ranked Tableau as the technical skill with the third biggest rise in demand. Join us for this hands-on session and learn how to leverage Tableau's business intelligence platform, for free, to help your students turn accounting data into actionable insights. We’ll provide an overview of Tableau and walk you through the key features and functionality of our visual analytics platform. Participants should have the most recent version of Tableau Desktop installed on their computers. | Vlad Usatin, Tableau | |
| 2 | Bridging the Gap-Real World Tools for the Classroom During the workshop we will briefly discuss the current state of the cloud-computing environment and the need for industry skills especially as it relates to Accounting and Big Data. We’ll offer an in-depth review of our Accounting, Finance and Big Data curriculum and related classroom tools and solutions. We’ll also provide the opportunity for attendees to login and use NetSuite software for follow-along exercises and their own exploration. Attendees will be able to use any web-enabled device and will not need to pre-load any software. We’ll deploy NetSuite accounts to them in real-time to demonstrate the power of cloud. | Danielle Ferretti, Oracle/NetSuite | |
| 3 | 5 Ways to Streamline Accounting Processes with Data Prep Real-world financial information isn’t always easy to access, clean, organize, and analyze. With self-service data preparation, you and your students can access data from a wide range of sources like PDFs bank statements, Excel files, webpages, or databases with a simple mouse-click. Learn how you can stop manually rekeying, blending, and formatting information for financial reporting and analysis using Datawatch Monarch, a data preparation solution used by over 14,000 customers. | Doug Ellis, Datawatch Frank Moreno, Datawatch | |
| 4 | Pixystems Toy Company Data Analytics Classroom project PwC has built a Data Analytics case study in which our fictional company, Pixystems Toy Company, Inc., hires your students to analyze their business processes and controls through the analysis of data provided (which is also fictional). Students will leverage Excel and Tableau. They will work in groups to complete their analysis and provide their recommendations. This project can potentially be used for students who have completed an intermediate accounting and audit class and possess a basic understanding of the accounting and processes associated with accounts payable. | Julie Peters, PwC Melissa Nevolis, PwC Lorenz Schmid, PwC | |
| 5 | Is Your Program Ready? D&A Program Trends One size does not fit all when it comes to effective data and analytics program design. Come learn from other department and program leaders’ experiences to discern the best path forward for your program(s). | Frank Buckless, North Carolina State University Guido Geerts, University of Delaware Jessen Hobson, University of Illinois David Stout, Villanova University Miklos Vasarhelyi, Rutgers University | |
| 6 | KPMG | KPMG | |
| 3:00-4:50 | Workshop II | ||
| 1 | Deloitte Audit Data and Visualization After gaining insights into Tableau and how visualization techniques can transform data into insights, this workshop will expand on this base knowledge allowing participants to put data visualization tools into action through an in-depth role-play case study. Acting as part of an internal audit group, individuals will utilize this technology on sets of sales transactional and master data, applying various analytical techniques to identify possible risk scenarios as part of an in-depth risk assessment of this account. Participants will learn not only how to develop their own visuals, but also create dashboards of interactive analytics showing stakeholders a more holistic multi-dimensional story of the results identified as well as how these results can be part of their overall set of audit procedure responses. | Marc Tomlinson, Deloitte & Touche LLP | |
| 2 | EY Helix General Ledger Analyzer for Students This workshop will provide a hands-on walkthrough of new EYARC analytics mindset cases studies featuring EY Helix General Ledger Analyzer for students, designed to provide students with more real-world accounting and auditing learning utilizing analyses similar to those within EY Helix, EY’s global suite of data analytics. Participants will need to have Tableau reader installed on their laptop to participate. | David Wood, BYU Margaret Christ, University of Georgia Catherine Banks, EY | |
| 3 | Organizing the Data in Your Life: An Introduction to Data Analytics and Topic Modeling Although “Big Data” and “Data Analytics” are relatively new terms for accountants, adding structure to data and organizing information are fundamental tasks for an accountant. This workshop aims to introduce some data analytics concepts – in a kind and gentle manner – to give participants insight into how computer-aided techniques can support or improve how we organize information. We will use some related, interactive exercises to learn basic concepts and ultimately build a topic model to complete our task. A tablet or computer is encouraged to maximize the potential learning takeaways, but no other advanced knowledge or software is required to participate. | Andrew (Andy) Bauer, University of Waterloo | |
| 4 | Teaching Data Analytics to Accountants Workshop The demand for accounting-specific data analytics coursework has increased in recent years and business schools are expanding their programs with courses designed to meet that need. Data Analytics for Accounting provides a hand-on approach in teaching students how to work with enterprise data, understand different approaches and models, and communicate their results to stakeholders. The book follows the IMPACT model for identifying questions, mastering data, performing analyses, addressing results, communicating insights, and tracking outcomes. With auditing, managerial accounting, and financial accounting-specific examples and cases, students are guided through impactful analyses that they can apply to their jobs on day one. Featured tools include Excel, Access, IDEA, Weka, and Tableau. This session will introduce the data sets and walk participants through a sample of the hands-on labs. | Katie Terrell, University of Arkansas Ryan Teeter, University of Pittsburgh | |
| 5 | An Original Dataset and Exercises in Audit Analytics: Creating a Course Using CaseWare IDEA In this workshop, you will be introduced to CaseWare IDEA and use our original dataset to work through a series of exercises where you will: -Import an Excel file into IDEA -Check record count, control total, basic descriptive information -Extract data, such as data within a specific time period -Summarize data by various criteria (e.g., sales by customer, by territory, etc.) -Search for duplicates -In the final exercise, you will use the tools you have learned to find a possible fraud within the data. Participants will need to have Caseware: Idea on their computers prior to arrival. | Cindy Durtschi, DePaul University David Wang, DePaul University | |
| 6 | Building Excitement: Integrating Data Analytics and Visualization into Introductory Accounting Courses This workshop illustrates ways you can bring data analytics and data visualization into the introductory financial accounting and introductory managerial accounting courses. Exposing students to analytics and visualization in their first accounting courses will not only provide a base upon which other courses can build but will also expose students to the most current data analysis methods used in professional accounting. We will primarily use Microsoft Excel but will also demonstrate how to incorporate the use of visualization software for those looking to take it to the next level. | Ann Dzuranin, Northern Illinois University | |
Note: The CPE Fields of Study curriculum is divided into twenty subject matter areas. These fields represent the primary knowledge and skill areas needed by accounting licensees to perform professional services in all fields of employment. Each Credit Hour is based on 50 minutes. The Program Level for each of these sessions is Basic, unless otherwise stated. Delivery Method: Group Live
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