Week 1 Discussion Questions:
Topic 1 Review the following video and using peer reviewed articles found in the library to back up your position, discuss how big data analysis can be used effectively in an area of accounting that interests you (auditing, managerial, tax, etc). Be sure to provide specific examples to support your position on the use of big data. Be sure to includ an issue and how big data analysis will aid in solving that issue.
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Accounting IS Big Data
Duration: 12:01
User: n/a – Added: 9/27/15
Topic 2 Since you are all familiar with Safe Assign, we will use that as the basis for this discussion. As you know when you run a paper or post through the program it will show you the “results” of similar work that are stored in a number of databases. In other words, your data is being analyzed and reports are generated. Run a draft of your post for this topic through Safe Assign in Getting Started, what conclusions can you draw from the reports that are presented? How do you know if your conclusions are accurate? Could there be any bias in your interpretations of the report? Why or why not? Please provide specific examples to back up your ideas. Remember we are not discussing the features of the Safe Assign software but the analysis of the reports generated from this software as they relate to data analysis and data visualization (view the video).