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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This case is designed to have students perform ETL procedures in R on a random selection of over a million, real-world customer transactions spanning a three-year period for Swift Arrow convenience stores (Swift). Swift operates in over 160 cities in the US and has over 180 stores.

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Case 5: Using VBA to transform data

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

Suitable courses: Accounting information systems; Data analytics

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Case 4: Joining data

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

Suitable courses: Accounting information systems; Data analytics

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Case 3: Advanced text extractions and unique identifiers

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

Suitable courses: Accounting information systems; Data analytics

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Case 2: Basic text extractions and unique identifiers

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

Suitable courses: Accounting information systems; Data analytics

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Case 1: Identifying data problems

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

Suitable courses: Accounting information systems; Data analytics

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The Overview case covers fundamental considerations in the ETL process and requires students to confirm their understanding. This case can be used as an assessment tool.

These cases are offered in Excel and Alteryx and use real-world data. The cases are accompanied by how-to videos.

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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).

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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...