Teaching Session #2 (lunch provided): Classroom Case to Address Unstructed Data Challenges
The use of unstructered data in the accounting profession has grown markedly in recent years. Professionals as well as business and accounting accreditors have called accounting students to acquire an increased depth and breadth in understanding how to deal with unstructured data. This case enables accounting insturctors, with noprevious background or experience in working with unstructured data, to introduce students to freely available software addressing unstructured data by conducting simple analyses using documents retrieved from publicly available SEC filings. The case designed as an introduction to unstructured data for auditing, accounting information systems, fraud examination, and financial statement analysis courses. However, it can be used in any accounting course where the content of relevant documents is subject to examination.
Diane Janvrin – Iowa State University 
 

Teaching Session #4:  Process MiningL Do firms Do What They Think They Do?
Come learn about the capabilities and limitations of process mining and get hands-on experience performing process mining on sample data using Celonis software.
Cheryl Dunn- Grand Valley State University 

Networking Reception

 

Teaching Session #6: Introducing AI Modeling Concepts to Students: Logic Programming Versus Neural Networks
Introduction of modeling concepts in AI, comparing and contrasting Logic Programming using the SWI Prolog Editor to highlight Prolog's use of resolution address financial accounting assertions and Nueral Networks using Palisade's NuralTools showcasing its use in classification problems for bankruptcy preditions.
Robert Nehmer – Oakland University