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Analytics in Accounting, Finance and Economics
Assessment - Technology and Analytics Disruption Case Study
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.
Assessment Description
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
document checking.
Case Studies
All of the following case studies have been sourced from the ‘Financial Services Insights' provided by McKinsey and Company:
Your group is required to select one (1) of the following cases to review and present to the class:
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. (1 slide)
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. (2 slides)
*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. (5 slides)
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. (1 slide)
Part 2: Presentation
(8 min each group + 2 minutes for questions)
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.