We introduce a data analytics course that accounting students complete during the first semester of their undergraduate … program at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo. The course positions analytics as equally … important to their future professional success as financial accounting, basic business concepts, and economics. We offer our …

Consistent with educational theory, research studies in accounting education substantiate claims of the benefits … associated with active learning. This paper describes how I integrate research into an undergraduate accounting course using a … pedagogical approach which fosters active learning. Throughout the course, students read and discuss excerpts from accounting …