EYARC curriculum materials
This Analytics mindset case study is suitable for an accounting information systems, auditing, fraud or data analytics course. This four-part 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.
This case includes a real data set of over 82,000 transactions covering over 10,600 vendors and over 1,200 purchasing card users. The case is offered in Alteryx, which is a powerful tool for both ETL and data analytics. We provide instructions to obtain free academic licensing for you and your students. The case is designed to be flexible to use with other tools as well. The case is accompanied with how-to videos as well.
See the User guide for more information.
This Innovation mindset case study asks students to automate the selection of a sample of expenses for testing for audit purposes based on: (1) a systematic selection of key transactions above or below a specified threshold and (2) a random selection of non-key transactions that do not meet the specified threshold. The case also requires students to automate the documentation of the selection procedures performed within audit working papers.
Data is provided to students in .csv and Excel files. This case is offered in UiPath and accompanied with how-to videos. We provide instructions to obtain free academic licensing for you and your students. This case can also be used with other RPA software. This case is now included in the series of RPA case study offerings provided by the EYARC. Students are encouraged to complete the overview case first before completing this case.
See the User guide for more information on this case and the other RPA curriculum materials available to you.
Innovation mindset: Intro to blockchain
This Innovation mindset material includes a presentation with slides and a video that can introduce your students to blockchain technology, including coverage of key terms and concepts, trends and use cases.
Beyond this offering, additional blockchain curriculum materials are available to you as well on the main blockchain topic page of the EYARC site that includes more extensive presentations and videos covering:
- Current blockchain trends and EY's vision for blockchain technology
- Business use applications and technology solutions for blockchain
- Accounting and auditing issues around this emerging technology
EY thought leadership
Global review 2019
What you need to know for Q1 2020 financial reporting
Innovation
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