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MIT Sloan Accounting Case Studies
Case studies from MIT Sloan are a open access and free resources available to management educators and students worldwide. They provide scenarios and situations that challenge students to carefully consider context and data as they work to think through what they would or would not do in these environments.
The MIT Sloan Accounting Group conducts influential research on how information shapes economic decisions inside firms, in financial markets, and in public policy. Case studies include:
- Utilizing the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactions
- Analyzing cost behavior patterns, specifically focusing on how cost structures may shift with changes in activity levels
- Illustrating differential analysis – the comparison of alternative decisions based on their relevant costs and benefits
Find these and many more exercises below.
Amazon vs. Walmart (New)
Illustrates the application of the DuPont formula and cash-to-cash cycle in financial statement analysis.
Five Below (New)
Provides a comprehensive introduction to fully integrated financial statement forecasting and valuation models.
Campbell’s Acquisition of Sovos Brands (New)
Drives understanding of the mechanics of purchase accounting and the economic intuition underlying goodwill.
Ford Model E
Notwithstanding numerous prior false starts and stops with EVs, Ford committed to investing in this area from 2016 through 2020,. with the goal of increasing EVs’ share of its global production to 50% by 2030.
Active Surfaces
Active Surfaces, an MIT start-up that developed low-cost, ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels designed to be applied to practically any surface, serves as the setting for a simple bookkeeping exercise that has students utilize the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactio...
Cost Patterns at MedPro Institute
Students are placed in the position of Pedro Russell, a partner at GSM Partners, during the due diligence phase of the acquisition process for MedPro Institute, a vocational training school in the medical field. While reviewing the school’s financial data, Russell discovered that the school relied a...
RiseEngineer and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
This case examines how Marsha Jackson, the Head of Internal Audit at RiseEngineer, deals with a whistleblower allegation of bribery in the company’s foreign subsidiary. Marsha’s compliance team conducts an investigation focused on the subsidiary’s bid on a major construction project. Students are as...
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX
In a span of 11 months, FTX. a crypto exchange co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), went from being valued at $32 billion in January 2022 to filing for bankruptcy, wiping out billions in investor money by November. Those called in to clean up the mess soon discovered that up to $9 billion in custo...
Another Liquidity Crunch at Tesla?
Throughout 2017 and into 2018, Tesla was burning through cash as the company sought to ramp up production of its Model 3 all-electric vehicle (EV). Investors were questioning whether Tesla would need to raise additional capital. While the company had been successful in the past at issuing both equit...