EY Academic Resource Center (EYARC)

This website lists a summary of EYARC materials provided for free to academics. For each case, we provide a brief description and a link to download the full materials. You will need an account to download materials. Follow the instructions at the official EYARC website to receive access.
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A scenario where the student assumes the role of an audit senior of the client engagement team for RimStar Music Company and must make a judgment about the reasonableness of the client’s judgment for the useful life of a new copyright for its collection of a fusion genre of gospel songs and country...

A scenario where the student assumes the role of a junior accountant for Toyda, a car manufacturer, and must make a judgment about the need to impair its production facilities.

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A scenario where the student assumes the role of the controller for JK, a technology company, and must make a judgment about the carrying value of its LIFO inventory considering the lower of cost of market.

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A scenario where the student assumes the role of the controller for Wildcat Sporting Goods and must make a judgment about the allowance for doubtful accounts

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This case asks students to identify and share good and bad uses of social media that could influence their ethical reputation and professional career. Students are also asked to think about how the ethics mindset can help them use social media more appropriately. This case works well to assign indiv...

This case is broken into two parts: Part 1 is to inspire themselves about the about the importance of having an ethics mindset and asks students to create an inspirational poster (physical or digital) and write a brief paragraph about the ethics mindset to remind them about their commitment to being...

This case is broken into two parts: Part 2 asks students to inspire others about the importance of having an ethics mindset by identifying, writing about and sharing their appreciation with an ethical mentor they have had in their life, to share their inspirational poster publicly and to identify an...

This case has students read about a situation that involves a professional who shares data and information and then determine whether this behavior is unethical. Students are provided with the EY Global Code of Conduct to review and apply as a basis for the ethics determination. Students are asked t...

This case has students focus on envisioning their future career as a business professional and related professional goals. Students are then asked to create two short stories that consider the consequences of making ethical (story 1) and unethical (story 2) choices now as a student on their professi...

This case focuses on applying ethics in a learning environment in a professional setting (Part 2). In each part, students are asked to evaluate whether various behavior scenarios are ethical or unethical and provide support for their assessment based on the principles and techniques in the ethics mi...

This case focuses on applying ethics in a learning environment in a college setting (Part 1). In each part, students are asked to evaluate whether various behavior scenarios are ethical or unethical and provide support for their assessment based on the principles and techniques in the ethics mindset...

For this case, the students will perform tests related to employee authentication logins. Students are asked to analyze data to determine the average number of employee logins, if logins are missing from the authentication log, if terminated employees are still attempting to login, etc. The last pro...