This case provides an opportunity for students to explore Inline XBRL data from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. Tesla is used as the example company for exploration.
Suitable courses: Introduction to accounting; Fin...
This case provides students a background on the DuPont Method and then requires students to analyze financial statement data for various companies across industries using this method to form investment recommendations. This case is offered in Tableau and R and is accompanied by how-to videos.
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This is a five-part case in which students are asked to assume the role of an auditor for Digital Assets Inc., a company that allows its customers to pay invoices in bitcoin, a common cryptocurrency that makes up approximately 50% of the market cap of all cryptocurrencies (as of May 2021).
EY has...
This case asks students to consider cybersecurity risks and their potential impact on the financial statements and to learn more about best practices for password policies to help mitigate cybersecurity threats. Students are asked to perform manual audit procedures on a sample of user names and pass...
This case asks students perform select cybersecurity audit procedures on actual Enron Corporation emails (approximately 27,000), preserved by federal investigators, to look for employee violations of hypothetical company policies. The case is offered in Alteryx, which is a powerful tool for both ETL...
This case is designed to have students perform a cybersecurity penetration test of password strengths at Blue Yarrow Unicorns. Students are provided with over 5,100 usernames, hashed passwords and job unit descriptors of Blue Yarrow's employees. Using a dictionary of nearly 2 million plain text comp...
This case asks students to perform descriptive and text analyses on purchasing card data for BioPhirma, an innovative, global health care leader, to assess compliance with policies and to help investigate a whistle-blower tip about possible fraud being committed through purchasing card transactions....
The Apollo Investments Research case is designed to provide students a hands-on opportunity to develop their analytics mindset by working directly with alternative data, which is satellite imagery of parking lots for four major companies (Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target and Walmart). Students will assume...
This case asks the students to address various business issues of Big Deals, a global big box retailer, by reviewing various prepared Tableau dashboards of sales data for its product lines across geographic markets. Each part of the case is broken into two learning components that requires students...
In this case, students will learn more about the classification, measurement and recognition of debt investments; the economics and valuation of debt investments; and consider the influence of banking regulations (Basel III in the US) and reporting incentives on accounting judgments.
This case in...
The Overview case is designed to give students exposure to the various types of alternative data and to learn about the growing importance of alternative data and its use by professionals in decision-making. Students will also learn about and consider the challenges and risks in use of alternative d...
For the purposes of this case, an organization has been hacked and received an email containing a riddle that needs to be solved within the hour. If the organization fails to solve the riddle, the hacker is threatening to release all of the organization’s sales data. The hacker typically enters syst...