Business Communication: Data Storytelling (1 CPE Credit)

When:  Feb 26, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM (CT)
Associated with  Kansas City Chapter
Having the data is one thing, getting your audience to understand what the data means is another. This presentation will highlight basic steps in data visualization that can help turn data into a story your audience understands.

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Speaker Bio:
Gail Hoover King earned her doctorate from the Northern Illinois University College of Business in Business Education focusing in accounting and finance with a minor in instructional technology. Before joining the faculty at Washburn University, she was a tenured Accounting Professor at Purdue University Northwest prior to this at Rockhurst University. At both universities, she served as the Accounting Discipline Coordinator and at Rockhurst University as Associate Dean of Academics.

Her scholarship focuses on student learning, pedagogical innovation, and assessment. She has won multiple awards including the 2017 Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education sponsored by the IMA, 2017 Mark Chain Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award from the AICPA/Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and 2016 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award Honorable Mention. In 2017 she received the 2017 National Association of State Board of Accountancy Accounting Education Research Grant. Recently, she was recognized for her service to the American Accounting Association Teaching Learning and Curriculum Section with the 2019 Hall of Honors Award.

Currently, she is sits on the American Accounting Association’s Education Committee and and is a board member of Support KC. Gail is a national speaker for the Conference on Teaching and Learning Accounting and chaired the 2019 annual meeting. She also served as a Commissioner for the Pathways Commission on the Future of Accounting Education. In practice, she was financial accountant in the oil and gas industry, a cost accountant and assistant financial analyst for a manufacturing company, and consultant for nonprofit organizations.

Location

UMKC Block Executive Hall Auditorium (room 218)
5105 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64110