This case series focuses on a fictitious company, Fairview Inc., a software-as-a-service company, that utilizes a travel expense reimbursement process for its sales and information technology employees who travel to customer locations. The Audit Committee would like to change its audit approach of t...
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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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...
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 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...
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...