Description
This project uses real-world financial statements (for Best Buy Co. Inc. and Nvidia Corporation) and creates a role-playing game where students can choose to be one of 4 capital market participants: an innovator that designs a brand-new accounting system, a company that prepares its best version of financial statements, an investor that chooses its ideal portfolio stocks, and a forensic accountant that looks for evidence of earnings management. The project helps student learn to conduct financial statement analysis and appreciate the impact of these statements on company financial ratios and capital market performance.
Publication Date
12-2022
Keywords
financial reporting, forensic accounting, annual reports, financial statements, investment analysis
Disciplines
Accounting | Finance and Financial Management | Higher Education | Portfolio and Security Analysis
Department 1
Management
Recommended Citation
Goldblatt, Luna Y.; Chaves, Joao Q.; Landman, Andrew M.; Mwinjuma, Salmin B.; and Vitelli, Braden C., "Financial Statement Analysis Project: "The Big Simulation"" (2022). Open Educational Resources. 13.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/oer/13
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Document Type
Book
Included in
Accounting Commons, Finance and Financial Management Commons, Higher Education Commons, Portfolio and Security Analysis Commons
Comments
Luna Goldblatt acknowledges the support by the Research and Professional Development Grant from the Gettysburg College Provost's Office.
The primary download (labeled "Download Full Text" above contains the project description document. The remainder of the project files are available as a .zip folder, available above, or in the sidebar.