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Analytics in Accounting, Finance and Economics

Assessment - Technology and Analytics Disruption Case Study

Assessment - Slides and Presentation

Your Task
Create a presentation to discuss a technology or analytics-based disruptor of accounting, economics, or finance. This presentation is to be completed as a group.

Learning Outcomes

Technology and analytics are disrupting the accounting, finance, and economics professions. We provide links to several case studies which illustrate the impact that a particular technology or analytics issue has had on a specific function in these professions, e.g. blockchain and security, artificial intelligence and
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To successfully complete this task, you will need to:

In week 5:
Form a group of three to four students
As a group, browse the case study topics provided
Choose one of the case studies from below (and try to choose something different to other groups)
Each member will access the case study content using the appropriate link
All members of the group should read the information

A playbook for analytics-driven wealth management

c. Build strong foundation, leading with technology
d. Build the team and prioritieq change management

In week 6:
Create 10 slides for presentation to the class addressing the key issues of the case

Case Studies
All of the following case studies have been sourced from the ‘Financial Services Insights' provided by McKinsey and Company:

Case Study 1: The data and analytics edge in corporate and commercial banking

Case Study 2: Digital and AI-enabled wealth management: The big potential in Asia

Case Study 3: How machine learning can improve pricing performance

Case Study 4: Fintech in MENAP: A solid foundation for growth

Case Study 5: Blockchain and retail banking: Making the connection

Case Study 6: How data and analytics are transforming the whole bank at HSBC

Case Study 7: AI-powered decision making for the bank of the future

Case Study 8: Analytics transformation in wealth management

Case Study 9: What the embedded-finance and banking-as-a-service trends mean for financial services

Part 1: Slide creation
Slide format should be as follows:
Title, group names and IDs.
Introduce the case study including challenges in the context of its environment (eg country, finance sector). Ensure that you have clearly outlined the problem being solved with the analytics and technology.
Explain what is being done, for example, how changes are being made, issues addressed in detail, action taken, e.g. what fintech companies are doing in Nigeria, how COVID impacted European banks.

Summarise the key take aways and impact of the technology or analytics in the context of the story provided in the case study, e.g. technology has sped up transaction rates, provided wider access to financial markets for those in developing countries......etc. (1 slide)

Add your own recommendation, alternative solutions, extensions, modifications, etc. to what was presented in the article as recommendations and solutions.

Part 2: Presentation

Present your work to the class. The presentation should be no more than 8 minutes.
Not all members of the group are required to present. Those not presenting should be ready to answer questions in the Q&A section of the presentation.
Other groups will have two minutes to ask questions.