Financial Instruments and Structured Finance

Accounting Analytics --- The objective of this course is to provide a framework and basic tools need to analyze accounting data for decision making and understand how data analytics are applied in an accounting context. Students will learn 1) how to clearly articulate a problem facing a company. 2) Understand the nature and quality of the underlying accounting data produced by the companies. 3) Use the appropriate statistical technique to analyze the accounting data. 4) Draw appropriate inferences from the analysis of the accounting data and communicate those inferences. While this class is not a programming course, students will get a basic understanding of the software package R.