Emerging Technologies in Accounting & Auditing

Course Description

The course currently includes the application of digital transformation-enabling technologies has advanced to now include the integration of AI and AI-related technologies (e.g., Generative AI, Agentic AI, Machine Learning, etc.) in accounting and auditing. As this area continues to rapidly evolve, our course content and the course names need to keep pace and reflect the continued maturity of these areas. The course requires a visual analytics group project as well as Intelligent Automation including Robotic Process Automation, AI including Machine Learning, Risks of AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Cognitive AI, Generative AI and Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI and AI Agents, Process Mining, etc. This course also provides the student with the evolution of accounting information to the digital economy. It explores the migration of the economy to a real-time economy and the digitalization of the business as well as the globalization of business. Enabling and emerging technologies provides the student with an awareness of the future of accounting, reporting, and auditing in the digital age. Technologies and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act provide an understanding about future methodologies that address compliance with the act.

Code

22:010:660

Credits

3

Subject

Accounting

Programs That Include This Course

• Master's M.B.A. Concentration Course Names and Descriptions
• Master's Master of Accountancy in Accounting & Analytics
• Master's Master of Accountancy in Financial Accounting