Data and digital micro-credential courses

Content Summary

Why study data and digital micro-credential courses?

Unlock the power of data

The world is changing at a rapid pace. Data drives so many of our decisions, it can feel hard to keep up. But data is just a tool, and with the correct application, a very powerful one. The key to unlocking its power is simple: knowledge.

Fast results, flexible hours

Our micro-credential courses have been designed to deliver fast, practical knowledge that will have an immediate impact on your everyday. Each course provides focused and relevant skills in the data and analytical field and requires only 4-6 hours of study.

Our data and digital micro-credential courses

Advance your career by enhancing your skills in data and digital solutions. Each course is designed for accounting professionals to deliver fast and practical data knowledge, taking no more than six hours to complete. These flexible short courses will accelerate your data skills and help to future-proof your career.

Data Visualisation and Storytelling

Learn to turn complex data into compelling stories.

Master the art of financial data storytelling by learning about the different types of charts and dashboards, and how to turn complex data into compelling stories. Accelerate your career by also learning how to apply data ink and Gestalt principles, and pre-attentive attributes to eliminate unnecessary detail in data visualisations and draw attention to important information.

6 CPD Hours, $165 AUD (Member price, inc GST)

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Topics

Through four key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to select appropriate charts and dashboards for displaying data, eliminate unnecessary detail in data visualisations and draw attention to important information, and tell a powerful story with data to help people remember information and effect change.
- Principles of visualisation
- Choosing the right chart
- Dashboards
- Storytelling with data
Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives
- Utilise data visualisation practices and tools to present data for organisational decision-making
- Apply storytelling techniques to communicate data insights to organisational stakeholders

Data Interpretation

Learn to interpret and inform with data.

Unlock the full potential of financial data by learning how to interpret data to make smart business decisions. Data interpretation analytics refers to the process of using different analytical methods to review data and reach relevant conclusions. In this course, you will learn how to use four methodologies – correlation analysis, regression analysis, forecasting, and optimisation to analyse relationships between variables and datasets, plan, budget and solve business problems. Invest in your career by investing in this Data Interpretation course.

4 CPD Hours, $165 AUD (Member price, inc GST)

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Topics

Through three key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to use different analytical methodologies to analyse relationships between variables and datasets, plan, budget and solve business problems, and how to address issues in interpreting data to achieve better outcomes in decision-making.
- Correlation and regression analysis
- Forecasting and optimisation models
- Issues in data interpretation
Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives
- Analyse data analytics results to inform organisational decision-making
- Advise on common issues in data analytics impacting data results

Statistical Analysis for Decision-Making

Learn to use analysis to make decisions.

Upskill for the future by understanding how to categorise and organise different types of financial data for analysis. Learn how to turn analysis into answers by exploring the fundamental concepts in probability and how they can be used in organisational decision making.

4 CPD Hours, $165 AUD (Member price, inc GST)

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Topics

Through four key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to categorise and organise different types of data for analysis, the fundamental concepts in probability and how they can be used in organisational decision-making and various sampling strategies to form predictions and reach conclusions.
- Data classification
- Probability
- Sampling and confidence intervals
- Hypothesis testing
Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives
- Apply data concepts in an organisational context
- Apply probability concepts and statistical techniques to inform organisational decision making

Data-Informed Decision-Making

Learn how data informs decision making.

Enhance your career skills by learning more about how data-informed decisions can add value to businesses. This online course explores the different steps of the data analytics decision-making process – including the key aspects of framing the problem, data collection and cleaning, data exploration, data modelling, model evaluation, communicating insights, and taking action.

6 CPD Hours, $165 AUD (Member price, inc GST)

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Topics

Through five key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how data-analytics decision-making frameworks can be used to provide real value to decision-makers and how to address challenges in data analytics to maintain the quality and integrity of data.
- Data and decision-making
- Framing the problem, data collection and exploration
- Data modelling
- Evaluation, communication and action
- Challenges in data analytics
Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives
- Apply data analytics to support management decision-making
- Analyse the impacts of challenges in data analytics for organisational decision-making

Creating a Data-Driven Culture

Learn how to build a data literate culture.

Build a data-driven culture in your business to help take your career to the next level. This online course outlines the importance of building a data literacy culture within an organisation, including categorising employees into four different personas to better understand their attitudes towards data.

4 CPD Hours, $165 AUD (Member price, inc GST)

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Topics

Through three key topics, this course provides practical guidance on the skills needed to be data literate, the importance of building a data literacy culture in an organisation, and strategies for designing and implementing a data strategy.
- Data literacy
- Data culture
- Data strategy
Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives
- Apply data literacy concepts in an organisational context
- Evaluate an organisation's data strategy in the context of its strategic goals

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Data and digital micro-credential courses

Content Summary

Why study data and digital micro-credential courses?

Unlock the power of data

Fast results, flexible hours

Our data and digital micro-credential courses

Data Visualisation and Storytelling

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Data Interpretation

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Statistical Analysis for Decision-Making

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Data-Informed Decision-Making

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Creating a Data-Driven Culture

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