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The Future of Accounting Education: Building Skills with Data Analytics

Empowering Tomorrow’s Accountants with Data-Driven Insights

  • Higher Education
  • On-demand
  • Event
  • Accounting
  • Financial and Managerial Accounting (Two Semesters)
  • Career Readiness
  • AI Reader
  • Connect
  • 55 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

The accounting profession is evolving, and data analytics skills are increasingly essential for success. Financial and Managerial Accounting: Building Skills with Data Analytics equips students with the tools they need to thrive in today’s data driven environment.

The innovative 21st edition integrates analytics content and hands on labs into every chapter, empowering students to answer complex accounting questions through structured data analysis.

Authors Vern Richardson and Kevin Smith outline how this approach transforms accounting education and prepares students for the future of the profession.

About Your Speaker

  • 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.

  • Kevin Smith -

    Kevin Smith

    Professor Kevin R. Smith is a Professor of Accounting and Department Chair in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University. Dr. Smith is an active CPA and holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Arizona. Professor Smith teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial accounting and accounting theory, and his research focuses on financial reporting quality and the accounting profession. Widely respected for his leadership and commitment to student success, he has received multiple awards for excellence in teaching and service.