Establish a project scope
Within a data analytics project, you’ll learn how to determine the objective and establish the scope of the entire data analytics project.
Gather your requirements
Establish what’s required to begin an effective analysis and decision-making process. Obtaining and understanding the right data ensures you’ll find the right insights and information to support decisions made later.
Real-world examples
This course is tailored specifically to accounting and finance professionals. It uses a mixture of real-world examples and case studies relevant to your role to give you different ways to understand and apply knowledge learned throughout the course.
This course is part one of the four-part Data Processing and Analysis Certificate.
Who Will Benefit
- AICPA &: CIMA members who want to better understand the needs of their audience so that they can provide the right information and insight for effective decision-making
- Global accounting and finance professionals
- Controllers
- Finance directors
- CFOs
- CPAs
Key Topics
- Understanding the importance of effective requirements gathering to the success of your data analytics project
- How to use the requirements gathering framework to evaluate business and technical requirements
- How to overcome common challenges
Learning Outcomes
- Recall the definition of requirements gathering.
- Recognize how requirements gathering fits in a data analytics project.
- Identify the four stages of the requirements gathering framework.
- Recognize potential ramifications of not following the requirements gathering framework.
- Identify common challenges to requirements gathering in an organization and how to mitigate them.