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Future-Ready Accounting

Modernizing Financial Statement Analysis with Data Analytics

  • Higher Education
  • On-demand
  • Event
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Accounting
  • Connect
  • Evergreen
  • 60 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Accounting education is evolving, with data analytics playing an increasingly important role in practice and reshaping how Financial Statement Analysis is taught. A modern approach to FSA integrates data analytics to better prepare students for their future careers.

Authors Bob Resutek and Vern Richardson outline strategies for modernizing the FSA course by incorporating data analytics throughout the curriculum. Their approach demonstrates how to introduce and engage students in core FSA topics while developing in demand data analytics skills sought by today’s employers.

About Your Speaker

  • Robert  Resutek -

    Robert Resutek

    Robert Resutek is the PwC Faculty Fellow and Professor at the Tull School of Accounting. He teaches Financial Statement Analysis to graduate accounting majors and MBAs. Prior to joining Tull in 2014, Professor Resutek was on the faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He received a PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas. Before entering the PhD program, he worked in the corporate restructuring groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers and FTI Consulting, Inc. in Dallas, TX. His work experience focused on debtor-side Chapter 11 restructurings.

    Professor Resutek's research examines how accounting information is interpreted by investors and how this interpretation affects stock price. His recent research examines the effect of earnings uncertainty on investor expectations and on the predictability of earnings.

  • Vernon J.  Richardson -

    Vernon J. Richardson

    Vernon J. Richardson is a distinguished professor of Accounting and the G. William Glezen chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and a visiting professor at Baruch College. He received his BS, Master’s of Accountancy, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at top universities across the U.S. and internationally, including institutions in China, Denmark, Australia, and Ghana, bringing global insight to his instruction. Dr. Vern Richardson is a distinguished accounting scholar and textbook author who has served in key editorial roles and published extensively in top academic journals. He specializes in data analytics and information systems, coauthoring widely adopted textbooks that bridge theory and practice in accounting and business analytics.