Business Data Management and Communication Specialization

To account for fixed assets

Understand accounting for liabilities

Evaluate shareholders’ equity section of a balance sheet, and

Understand preparation and information provided by cash flows statement.

Build familiarity with the set of tools and techniques used to analyze and visualize digitalized data.

Gain an understanding of the motivations that direct the use of various data visualization methods.

Understand visual approaches used to effectively communicate insights from data.

Gain hands-on, working knowledge of the nuanced distinction between effective and poor data presentation.

Examine the interplay between business principles and data analytics.

Build a foundation in data analytics by installing and using a data analytics language, an integrated development environment (IDE), and key modules.

Manipulate the most commonly used data types using functions.

Develop efficient, easy-to-read approaches for assembling and processing data for analysis.

Appreciate the unique economic, accounting, and legal characteristics of information.

Understand and apply methods for conceiving and generating broad-based and transformative business benefits from available information assets.

Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

Articulate the challenges, pitfalls, and paradoxes regarding information’s role as a something owned and controlled.

Lay out new and emerging organizational roles for treating information as an actual business asset.