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Accounting academic curriculums are constantly changing to match the demand of industry. The role of an accountant has expanded and an accountant now must be able to demonstrate data analytic skills. This article presents the journey of Black Hills State University to infusing data analytics into its existing accounting courses, before creating an entire new data analytics course.

This teaching case creates an Escape Room experience for managerial accounting students to reinforce relevant costing and short-term decision concepts. Within the Escape Room, students analyze five short-term decisions within 50 minutes to 'escape' for the weekend. Students need to identify relevant information, perform the necessary calculations, and evaluate their results to make a recommendation on how to improve firm profitability. The Escape Room case study also uses gamification elements to promote engagement and interest in learning these concepts.

The article evaluates the ethical issues surrounding the use of the AI model ChatGPT in accounting education. It delves into how to mitigate these ethical risks, analysing the findings of a survey on how students view the ethical risks of using the chatbot in the classroom and how their instructors view it from a learning perspective.

Guidance on how to develop a CV that effectively showcases one's accomplishments and positions them well in the academic job market. It provides tactical tips for structuring and organizing an academic CV, making a good first impression, and highlighting research. Written from a US perspective.

The article discusses the importance of data analytics skills in the field of accounting and the adoption of data analytics in accounting curricula. It highlights the textbook 'Data Analytics for Accounting' (2023) as a valuable resource for teaching data analytics to accountants. The textbook covers various topics such as data scrubbing, data analysis, statistical analysis, and data visualization, as well as software platforms like Excel, Tableau, and Power BI. (This book is held in the ICAEW Library collection and can be borrowed by ICAEW members and ACA students).

Using data from 14 countries and 186 institutions, the authors compare ChatGPT and student performance for 28,085 questions from accounting assessments and textbook test banks. As of January 2023, ChatGPT provided correct answers for 56.5% of questions and partially correct answers for an additional 9.4% of questions. The article provides evidence of how ChatGPT performs on different question types, accounting topics, class levels, open/closed assessments, and test bank questions. The implications for accounting education and research are also discussed.