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Courses - Fall 2025
BUAC
Accounting and Information Assurance Department Site
BUAC746
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Systems for Data Analysis
Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Must be admitted to the appropriate graduate business program; or permission of the Masters Programs Office at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
This course emphasizes the critical role accountants play as users, designers, and managers of relational databases used for business purposes. By completing a variety of accounting-related projects, students will learn how to design a relational database using a conceptual and logical data model, how to perform data normalization, how to manage and extract data stored in the relational database system, and how to share the insights from data analysis. By the end of the course, students will gain practical skills in system documentation, database manipulation and data visualization. This course fits accounting students' needs for professional development and prepares them for future real-world accounting tasks.