{"id":65207,"date":"2017-05-01T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207///wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//oglethorpe.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//news/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//case-study-competition-tests-students-accounting-skills/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:12:57","slug":"case-study-competition-tests-students-accounting-skills","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207///wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//oglethorpe.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//news/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//case-study-competition-tests-students-accounting-skills/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207//","title":{"rendered":"Case study competition tests students’ accounting skills"},"content":{"rendered":"
Junior and senior/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Accounting students had the chance to practice their skills in Oglethorpe’s first Intermediate Accounting II Case Competition, held on campus/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0in April./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n “More than ever before, accounting students need to find ways to stand out in the marketplace and demonstrate their ability to do more than crunch numbers,” said assistant professor of accounting/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Dr. Floran Syler, CPA, who organized the competition for her class. “Case Study competitions are an ideal way for them to do this.”/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n Students used critical thinking skills and recent accounting policies to analyze two real-life revenue recognition cases from the Deloitte Trueblood Case Studies, which help teach new developments in auditing and accounting./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n The case studies, prepared by Deloitte professionals, are based on recent technical issues that often require significant research and judgment. The case topics highlight the /wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u201cgray/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u201d areas of accounting and help prepare students for the types of questions likely to arise in professional practice. These seminars help professors enrich the accounting curriculum to reflect the necessary skills of the auditor of the future./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n The winning team, which presented the case “A Network of Ideas,” included: Zeina Skaf,/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Kevin Kim, Laarni Mata,/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Daniela Ramon,/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Michael Turner./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n [contextly_sidebar id=”aVEf8CnL0ehws3KuqNfeg6RVT5SRrUsz”]The competing team presented “Cable Guys” and included:/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Michael Rulison,/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Jezziah Millin,/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Jose Franco-Zuniga, Celina Kassam and Deborah Youmans./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n The competition was judged by alumni Adam Repasy ’13/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0and George Jones ’10/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0from CPA firm Warren Averett, and/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0Dr. Jeanette K. Miller, lecturer in finance, corporate finance, business analytics and entrepreneurship./wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/u00a0/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n /wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":65214,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[4554,4552],"tags":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-65207","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"/wp-json/wp/v2/news/65207/n