Accounting and Finance
Timeline
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January 7, 2025Experience start
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April 5, 2025Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Accounting Sales strategySkills
project planning business consulting business strategy marketing strategyAccounting major is designed for students interested in becoming a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), and for students who want to develop a strong foundation in accounting.
Finance Program offers the students foundations in finance that allow them to pursue various career paths in the financial services industry or a higher degree in finance.
Our students participate in various external case competitions, gaining hands-on experience, and meeting industry practitioners. Our finance faculty is involved in a variety of research
Beginning in January 2025, teams of 3-5 students will work with your organization to support you with achieving your key business objectives by developing a recommended plan of action.
* Please note that the course dates are subject to change depending on University scheduling*
Learners
- Project plan and weekly status reports
- Final project report with recommendations and an executive summary
- Presentation of recommendations from top one or two teams (via a virtual webinar format)
Project timeline
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January 7, 2025Experience start
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April 5, 2025Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Statistical Analysis
The appropriate model will be developed to predict how much a customer will spend at your business. This development will include the following:
- Performing the appropriate statistical regression modelling techniques—in this case, a multiple regression statistical model.
- Determining which data attributes provided are predictive.
- Interpreting the model output.
- Providing the formula from the statistical model that can be used to predict what a customer will spend.
- Students will design, interpret, and provide the statistical regression model for your business to predict customer spend.
Financial Business Plan
- Sales forecasting
- Expense budget
- Income projections (conservative and aggressive)
- Assets and liabilities
- Break-even analysis
- Future recommendations
Financial Risk Analysis
- Application of mathematical/statistical analysis and computing methods to analyze data.
- Estimation of the volatility, correlation for returns, forward contracts, and industry-specific futures.
- Presenting findings on market risk exposure and provide recommendations.
- By using private (provided by your organization) and publicly available data on industry-specific derivatives, students will also perform a sensitivity analysis to identify the reliability of risk estimates.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Timeline
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January 7, 2025Experience start
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April 5, 2025Experience end