Professional development – Talent insights and trends
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Pathways to professional services: A recruiting update from EY
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Analytics mindset – Case studies
Cybersecurity email audit case
In this case, students are asked to 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 software and facilitates creating powerful procedures that allow for the examination of 100% of the emails and reduces the time and potential errors associated with an analysis of this magnitude.
The case is accompanied with how-to videos.
This content is appropriate to utilize in an accounting information systems, auditing, fraud or data analytics course.
Fairview Inc. case series
This case series focuses on a 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 the internal audit approach of these expenses from sampling and manual data collection to utilizing audit analytics procedures on 100% of all data newly collected through automation. The CFO is considering alternatives for the current reimbursement calculation method and employee assignment method for customer calls to better optimize resources. Students are asked to complete the analyses and share findings and recommendations.
The case series includes four cases that can be completed independently.
- Case 1: Extract, transform and load (ETL) – The case solution is offered in Alteryx, and is accompanied with how-to videos.
- Case 2: Travel expense audit – The case solution is offered in Tableau and is accompanied with how-to videos.
- Case 3: Reimbursement calculation method – The case solution is offered in Power BI and Tableau and is accompanied by how-to videos for the Tableau solution.
- Case 4: Employee assignment method – The case solution is offered in Tableau and is accompanied with how-to videos.
This content is appropriate to utilize in a cost or managerial accounting, accounting information systems, auditing or data analytics course.
The 360 case
This case focuses on a company, MC Foods, Inc. (MCF), that 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-part case, students analyze the 360 process and its results for MCF:
- Part 1 of the case is intended to promote discussion about subjective performance measures and forced ranking systems.
- Part 2 of the case is intended to promote discussion about diversity, equity and inclusion and bias in subjective performance ratings (in particular) and in organizations more broadly.
The case is offered in both Power BI and Tableau and is accompanied by how-to videos.
Innovation mindset
Blockchain: Blockchain 101 course
This is a comprehensive introductory curriculum on blockchain that includes 24 modules (class sessions). Students will gain an understanding of the terms and definitions of blockchain and related technology, uses of blockchains, security benefits and risks with blockchain, and highlights of current and anticipated uses of blockchains through real-world examples and discussion topics. Students will also complete a group project simulating a typical professional services experience for a client request for proposal for blockchain services.
The curriculum materials include presentations, presentation videos, video transcripts to help serve as lecture notes, exercises with solutions, quizzes with solutions and group project overview and guide.
Robotics process automation: Travel expense audit case
In this case, students are asked to help automate elements of Fairfield Inc.’s internal audit of travel expenses for reimbursement of employee mileage for work-related travel. Students will manually perform the task of mapping the employee-reported distances using a commercial mapping service (Google Maps). Students will then write a bot that automates this process and then calculates the difference between the distance the bot collected and the employee-reported distances. This case is offered in UiPath and accompanied with how-to videos. This case is now included in the series of RPA case study offerings provided by the EYARC.
Note that the EYARC Analytics mindset case study, Fairfield Inc. travel expense audit (highlighted above), utilizes the data this bot is designed to collect. A demonstration video of this bot is also available. This case can be used in addition to (or independently of) this case.
Audit
Internal controls: ITGC modules and comprehensive case study
The EYARC has added five additional modules to the existing two internal controls modules that address understanding and evaluating ITGCs in much greater depth as well as providing a comprehensive internal controls case study, Wembley Wheels:
- Module 3: Introduction to ITGCs
- Module 4: ITGC basics
- Module 5: Evaluating ITGCs
- Module 6: Audit response to ineffective ITGCs
- Module 7: Comprehensive case study
The curriculum materials include presentations, lecture notes, video, handouts, exercises and solutions, case study and solutions.
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The Ernst & Young Academic Resource Center (EYARC), sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation, is an innovative collaboration between faculty and professionals to support higher education. The EYARC develops and provides free curriculum resources and other educational support to address leading-edge issues impacting the accounting profession. The EYARC is yet another example of the commitment of the global EY organization and the Ernst & Young Foundation to the academic community. The Ernst & Young Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation associated with Ernst & Young LLP, which funds the Foundation, together with its present and former partners, principals and staff.
