Has your school converted all courses to online? Still scrambling to figure out what this means for your course? Jennifer Cainas (University of South Florida), Tracie Miller-Noble (Austin Community College) and me (Kent State University) will be hosting two 30-minute webinars this coming week. One will address the options for online office hours and the […]
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Using Collaborate Ultra to deliver class live online? Here’s help….
March 14, 2020 
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Are you faced with teaching live online for the first time? Does your school have Collaborate Ultra? Collaborate Ultra is an excellent tool for teaching live online – I have used it every class day for a few years now. You can be up and running with Collaborate Ultra in about an hour. I have […]
Continue readingWebinar on Friday! Strategies for giving exams and quizzes online
March 12, 2020 6 Comments
Has your university or college suddenly converted all in-person classes to be online? Wondering how you can give exams online and maintain some sort of integrity? We (Wendy Tietz and Jennifer Cainas) are hosting a webinar on Friday, March 13, 2020, from 3:30 – 4:30 pm Eastern. Register at this link. In this webinar, we […]
Continue readingHow does Twitter’s issuance of notes due in 2027 impact its balance sheet and debt ratio?
January 24, 2020 4 Comments
During 2020, Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) will be issuing (approximately) $600 million of unsecured notes that will be due in 2027. Assume that on the day immediately before the note issuance, Twitter has assets of $10,500 million and liabilities of $3,370 million. Questions Will the notes be classified as assets or liabilities on Twitter’s balance […]
Continue readingHow might the management of Jos-Tech have prevented an employee from stealing almost $500,000?
January 17, 2020 0 Comments
Victoria A. Ladd, 51, was employed by Jos-Tech, Inc., a custom plastics fabricating company located in Kent, Ohio, for many years. From January 2013 until January 2018, she wrote several checks to herself and cashed them or deposited them into her personal accounts. She also authorized electronic payments from Jos-Tech’s bank accounts to pay off […]
Continue readingAnnouncing a new blog for data analytics cases, Accounting is Analytics!
January 14, 2020 6 Comments
Exciting announcement! Three of us have created a blog site called “Accounting is Analytics.” This site houses data analytics teaching materials (cases and instructional material) for introductory accounting. We (Wendy Tietz, Jennifer Cainas, and Tracie Miller-Nobles) develop cases for Excel, Power BI, and/or Tableau that are suitable for introductory accounting classes. All materials are free […]
Continue readingHow does Amazon’s redemption of its notes payable impact its financial statements?
January 11, 2020 0 Comments
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently redeemed $1 billion of its 2.6% notes payable one month before the maturity date. “Redeemed” means that Amazon paid cash to the note holders for the principal amount of the notes and the interest accrued up to the redemption date. Questions Assume that, on the date of redemption, it had been […]
Continue readingHow does The J.M. Smucker Company’s dividend announcement impact the company’s financial statements?
November 14, 2019 0 Comments
On October 25, 2019, The J.M. Smucker Company made the following dividend announcement: The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $0.88 per share dividend on the common shares of the Company. The dividend will be paid on Monday, December 2, 2019, to shareholders of record […]
Continue readingSummary of seven data analytics projects for introductory accounting
April 7, 2019 0 Comments
There has been a lot of interest in the data analytics cases for introductory accounting that have been posted on this blog. I am providing a summary of the seven data analytics cases and related links in the table below to make it more convenient to see, at a glance, what projects are available and […]
Continue readingNew data analytics case for introductory financial accounting available – KAT Insurance!
February 25, 2019 3 Comments
The demand for business graduates with data analytics skills has exploded, while the tools and techniques are continuing to evolve and change at a rapid pace. Three of us who teach introductory accounting (Wendy Tietz, Jennifer Cainas, and Tracie Miller-Nobles) have joined forces to develop a case to introduce data analytics in the introductory financial […]
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