Practitioners and academic regulators are demanding that accounting graduates possess data analytics skills (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) 2018; Davenport 2016; Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) 2019; Lawson, Hatch, and Descroches 2019; Tschakert, Kokina, Kozlowski, and Vasarhelyi 2016). However, few existing data analytics cases concentrate on managerial accounting tasks or include a governmental setting. This case highlights how publicly available data can be used for a managerial accounting task in a governmental setting; thus, providing students with the opportunity to create and evaluate BSC metrics. Further, detailed instructions alleviate much of faculty’s concern about implementing a data analytics project in a non data analytics course.
Suggested solutions with the screen shots for the visualizations are shown in the following pages.
The write-ups should focus on several items including:
Observations that students may provide include:
When used in an advanced managerial accounting...
