We are excited to announce that our new set of ESG projects for introductory accounting is now available. In these projects, students first review a quick overview lesson on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) accounting and reporting. Then students are given written ESG reports for three companies within the hotel and lodging industry. All reports are based on real-company metrics. Each report contains data covering one to three years for selected ESG metrics. The student will gather data from each of the reports to build a data set. This data set will be used to build charts to visualize the ESG metrics and trends. The student will then construct dashboards to compare the ESG profiles. Dashboards can focus on environmental, social, and/or governance metrics. The projects combine data gathering, data analysis, and ESG topics.
These projects provide an opportunity to introduce students to ESG reporting and how ESG metrics can add to an analysis of a company’s performance. These projects demonstrate that evaluating a business is more than just crunching the numbers or looking at financial statements. ESG reporting provides an additional lens for reviewing and evaluating a company.
There are a total of nine ESG hotels and lodging independent projects from which to choose:
One online dashboard project (no software needed);
Four Excel projects; and
Three Power BI projects.
All projects include step-by-step tutorial videos, suggested questions, and solutions.
To request the instructor guide that contains everything you need for all nine projects, please fill out the form at this link. We generally send out instructor guides once a week. Check your spam folder; often our emails go into a spam folder.
Are you interested in data analytics? Do your students use Google Sheets? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Google Sheets for data analytics? We have developed a case that is suitable for introductory accounting that uses just Google Sheets – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Tuesday, November 8, from 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern, for a webinar on “City of Magicville: Transaction Analysis Project using Google Sheets.” We will be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link.
This will be our last webinar in 2022. We will be scheduling webinars for 2023 beginning in January. See our website webinar page at this link.
Are you interested in data cleaning and visualization? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Excel for data cleaning and visualization? We have developed a case that is suitable for intermediate accounting, data analytics, cost accounting, or other accounting major classes that uses Excel – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Monday, October 3, 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern, for a webinar on “ETL project using advanced Excel featuring KAT Concession Supply.” We will be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link.
To see all the webinars we have scheduled, see our website webinar page at this link.
This project is one of ten projects in a set that focus on data cleaning and analytics. Read on for how to request this intermediate level project for introductory accounting that uses Excel for data cleaning and analytics.
A key step in data analytics is getting the data ready for use – in fact, this step can take more time and effort than the analysis of the data. This brand-new Excel project focuses on the data cleaning aspect of data analytics and is appropriate for introductory accounting – but could be adapted to any accounting class.
KAT Concession Supply is a fictitious company that supplies food, paper products, and other items to fairs, amusement parks, and other organizations. Information in the KAT Concession Supply data sets includes information about its sales over a three-year period. The data from KAT Concession Supply has errors and irregularities in it and it must be cleaned so that an interactive dashboard about its operations can be prepared. This Excel project is classified as intermediate because it takes about an hour to complete the entire project – the Excel is still doable for the introductory accounting student.
Complete step-by-step tutorial videos and an instructor guide are available to make project adoption easy and painless in accounting courses. The project is available at no cost for instructors to use in their classes.
Intermediate project for Excel
The data cleaning and other tasks in the Intermediate version of the Excel data cleaning project are:
Widen all columns to automatically fit the contents.
Find and remove duplicate records.
Remove spaces and nonprinting characters.
Convert dates stored as text to date format.
Find and replace text.
Split one column into two.
Change the case of cells.
Combine cells.
Convert text into numbers or currency.
Format numbers.
Correct spelling.
Create a three-visualization dashboard.
Tutorial videos/PDFs
Complete step-by-step instructions are provided for this project. Students have the choice of viewing the tutorial videos or downloading a pdf file of the annotated slides. The tutorials for this project have been split into several shorter parts. The project can be completed in shorter steps, rather than the entire project in one sitting.
***You can obtain the Instructor Guide for the KAT Concession Supply intermediate data cleaning project for Excel by requesting it at this link.***
The instructor guide contains the data set, solutions, and other information. The instructor guide also contains all the KATCS data cleaning projects released to date.
Give us about 5 – 8 days to respond – but check your Spam folder for the email if you do not see our email within that approximate time frame. (You may want to add drwendytietz@gmail.com to your Safe Senders list. Please don’t email to that email address – that is an email address used solely for distributing the project resources we have developed. Thank you!)
Are you interested in data cleaning and visualization? Have you heard about Alteryx and/or Power BI and want to learn more? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Alteryx and Power BI for data cleaning and visualization? We have developed a case that is suitable for introductory accounting that uses Alteryx and Power BI – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Thursday, August 18, from 11 – 11:30 am Eastern, for a webinar on “ETL for introductory accounting: Alteryx and Power BI intermediate project (KAT Concession Supply).” We will be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 11 – 11:30 am Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link.
To see all the webinars we have scheduled, see our website webinar page at this link.
Are you interested in data cleaning and visualization? Have you heard about Tableau and/or Tableau Prep and want to learn more? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Tableau and Tableau Prep for data cleaning and visualization? We have developed a case that is suitable for introductory accounting that uses Tableau and Tableau Prep – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Monday, August 9, from 2 – 2:30 pm Eastern, for a webinar on “ETL for introductory accounting: Tableau/Tableau Prep beginner project (KAT Concession Supply).” We will be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 2 – 2:30 pm Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link.
To see all the webinars we have scheduled, see our website webinar page at this link.
Are you interested in data cleaning and visualization? Do your students use Google Sheets? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Google Sheets for data cleaning and visualization? We have developed a case that is suitable for introductory accounting that uses just Google Sheets – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Tuesday, July 19, from 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern, for a webinar on “ETL for introductory accounting: Google Sheets beginner project (KAT Concession Supply).” We will be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 1 – 1:30 pm Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link.
To see all the webinars we have scheduled, see our website webinar page at this link.
Are you interested in Alteryx but have not yet delved into it? Want a ready-made project for your class that uses Alteryx and Power BI for data cleaning and visualization? We have developed a case that is suitable for introductory accounting that uses Alteryx and Power BI – and we provide step-by-step tutorial videos, making it easy to use in your classes.
Join us on Wednesday, July 13, from 11 – 11:30 am Eastern, for a webinar on “ETL for introductory accounting: Alteryx beginner project (KAT Concession Supply).” We will show Alteryx and discuss how you and your students can get it for free. We will also be covering how to request the instructor materials, what the project covers, how you can use it in your own classes, and more!
We will also answer any questions you have. The webinar is from 11 – 11:30 am Eastern – you can register for this webinar at this link. We will also make a recording of the webinar available after it concludes.
To see all the webinars we have scheduled, see our website webinar page at this link.
Okay, so confession here – my guilty pleasure is TV game shows. I have created a set of data analytics games based on TV game shows that are suitable for reviewing data analytics – perhaps at the end of a unit or the end of the semester. You will find Jeopardy, Family Feud, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire games below. In addition, I also created a Kahoot! and a Connect 4 game. There is no cost for any of these games. All files are editable. Here is the list including links to resources:
Jeopardy
Here is a link to a data analytics Jeopardy! game using the online platform Jeopardy Labs. You can use the one I have created for free. Instructions are found on the same link as the game.
Kahoot!
Here is a link to a data analytics Kahoot! game. If you need information about how to play Kahoot!, the Kahoot website has a lot of resources.
Connect 4
Here are links to a Connect 4 PowerPoint data analytics game and resources:
The Instructor Guide contains information about how to play the game in the classroom. It also contains all the answers to the questions in the game. The PowerPoint can be
Family Feud
Here are links to a Family Feud PowerPoint data analytics game and resources:
Today we are releasing the data cleaning project for Tableau Prep. This is the fourth of ten projects that focus on data cleaning and analytics. Tableau Prep is a nice option to have available for your students because it runs on both a Mac and Windows operating system. Keep reading to learn how to request this first beginner level project that uses Tableau Prep for data cleaning and Tableau for data analytics.
A key step in data analytics is getting the data ready for use – in fact, this step can take more time and effort than the analysis of the data. This brand-new Tableau Prep project focuses on the data cleaning aspect of data analytics and is appropriate for introductory accounting – but could be adapted to any accounting class. This Google Sheets case is designed to guide students through data cleaning and data analysis with step-by-step tutorial videos.
KAT Concession Supply is a fictitious company that supplies food, paper products, and other items to fairs, amusement parks, and other organizations. Information in the KAT Concession Supply data sets includes information about its sales over a three-year period. The data from KAT Concession Supply has errors and irregularities in it and it must be cleaned so that an interactive dashboard about its operations can be prepared. This Tableau Prep project is classified as beginner because it takes less than an hour to complete the entire project and the steps are pretty basic.
Complete step-by-step tutorial videos and an instructor guide are available to make project adoption easy and painless in accounting courses. The project is available at no cost for instructors to use in their classes.
Beginner project for Tableau Prep
The ETL and other tasks in the beginner version of the Tableau Prep data cleaning project are:
Input and view the data.
Identify and remove duplicate records.
Remove unwanted spaces and characters from fields.
Convert dates stored as text to fields formatted as dates.
Find and replace text.
Split one field into two fields.
Remove empty columns and rename columns
Create and output file.
Correct spelling errors in the saved output file.
Create a two-visualization interactive dashboard.
Tutorial videos/PDFs
Complete step-by-step instructions are provided for this project. Students have the choice of viewing the tutorial videos or downloading a pdf file of the annotated slides. The tutorials for this project have been split into two parts:
***You can obtain the Instructor Guide for the KAT Concession Supply beginning data cleaning project for Google Sheets by requesting it at this link.*** The instructor guide contains the data set, solutions, and other information.
Give us about 5 – 8 days to respond – but check your Spam folder for the email if you do not see our email within that approximate time frame. (You may want to add drwendytietz@gmail.com to your Safe Senders list. Please don’t email to that email address – that is an email address used solely for distributing the project resources we have developed. Thank you!)
News flash: This data cleaning project is the fourth project in a set of ten data cleaning and visualization projects developed by Tracie Miller-Nobles, Wendy Tietz, and me. We will be releasing new projects approximately twice a month for the remainder of 2022. These projects will be available in three levels: Beginner (five data cleaning techniques plus two-visualization dashboard); Intermediate (beginner steps with seven additional data cleaning techniques plus three-visualization dashboard); and Advanced (intermediate steps with additional data cleaning techniques plus four-visualization dashboard.) In addition, the projects will be available in four software tool combinations: Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau Prep combined with Tableau, and Alteryx combined with Power BI.
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