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In a trend story on accounting offerings at business schools, Professor Alex Dontoh highlights Stern's emphasis on the intersection of accounting and technology
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Excerpt from U.S. News & World Report -- "Alex Dontoh, an accounting professor and director of the master of science in accounting program at New York University's Stern School of Business, says that a first-rate, graduate-level accounting curriculum should include technological training. He says that lessons on data tools like Python, XBRL and SQL are vital. He also says that knowledge of digital ledger technology, the global accounting network that allows for the transaction of digital currencies like bitcoin, commonly known as blockchain, is necessary. 'Our graduate accounting offerings have incorporated aspects of these technologies in the curriculum to better prepare our MBA and M.S. in Accounting students,' Dontoh said via email."
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