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.

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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...

This case asks students to assume the role of a tax professional and demonstrate their technology savvy. Students are asked to work with various client tax fixed asset information schedules and IRS MACRS tax depreciation rate tables to calculate tax depreciation and test the accuracy of personal pro...

This case asks students to research emerging data and technology topics to gain understanding of the topics and to determine any potential impact on the accounting profession. Students document and present their research and are graded by their peers using a provided rubric. A list of possible topic...

Students will work with a structured data set of several thousand cash, sales, accounts receivable and cost of goods sold subledger transactions for the first two years of operations of TechWear, a start-up company that manufactures and sells upper-end, high-tech sportswear. Students will gain insig...

MC Foods, Inc. (MCF) uses an annual 360° performance evaluation for its employees (the 360) to obtain employee ratings. The company uses these ratings to force rank employees into nine performance and potential categories to support promotion, raise and employee development decisions. In this two-pa...

This case asks students to assume the role of an analyst within Timp Health, a company that specializes in pharmacy benefit management. The task is to analyze drivers of gross drug costs and, ultimately, to develop a regression model that best predicts future gross drug costs. The real-world data fo...

This case is designed for a class focused on data visualization techniques and skills and may be used in a stand-alone data analytics class or as part of an accounting information systems course. A key feature of this case is that it is open ended. Students are required to generate their own interes...