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This case has students use the process mining dashboards provided to analyze the credit approval process within the order-to-cash cycle for BW Fishing Inc. Students must assume the role of the external auditor piloting the use of process mining in the planning phase of the audit in which both an aud...
This case has students use the process mining dashboards provided to analyze the order-to-cash cycle for BWF Fishing Inc. The case requires students to use the dashboards to analyze this process based on the perspectives of different departments within the company, including Internal Audit, Corporat...
This case helps students learn the process of building process mining dashboards in a walkthrough format using Celonis software (freely available). This case is an introductory case and as such, does not require significant student judgment or experience. Rather, this case is designed to help studen...
This case provides students with an overview of the database provided to them (data tables and their corresponding data fields). It requires students to query this database to create the data set needed for the process mining software to effectively analyze the activities (or events) in the order-to...
In order to analyze a business process through process mining, it is important first to understand how the business process is designed. This case presents a narrative of an order-to-cash business process for a hypothetical company, BW Fishing Inc., and requires a student to make a flowchart of this...
The case provides a comprehensive and practical examination of the US federal government’s financial practices, challenges and reporting standards. By exploring the sustainability of the current fiscal path, students will engage in critical thinking about the US national debt, spending and the econo...
This curriculum offers an opportunity for students to learn and think critically about the purpose of auditor independence, the regulatory bodies who oversee independence and their personal professional and ethical responsibilities related to independence. This curriculum materials includes slides,...
The development and validation of an automated grading tool using robotic process automation (RPA) for SQL queries saves faculty time and allows for more accurate grading. This enhances the accuracy of grading but also allows faculty to reallocate their time toward other important academic responsib...
In this case, students will identify a process in business or in their personal life that can be automated using RPA and develop the bot to automate this process. Students can develop a bot that has different levels of sophistication in terms of how many programs it interacts with and that uses vari...
In this case, students gather data to perform an internal audit of travel expenses for Fairfield Inc. Employees have submitted trips for reimbursement that include the address from which the employee left, the address to where they traveled and the employee's self-reported mileage for the trip. Stud...
In this case, students are expected to automate the selection of a sample of expenses for testing for audit purposes based on: (1) a systematic selection of key transactions above or below a specified threshold and (2) a random selection of non-key transactions that do not meet the specified thresho...