This week, in your accounting class.
Free current-events articles, teaching cases, and interactive tools that three accounting professors actually pull into their own courses every semester. Take what you like.
Deloitte fined $7.9M by UK regulator for failed audits
Deloitte UK faced a $7.9 million fine for failing to detect that Go-Ahead Group's railway subsidiaries retained $39.6 million in erroneous government overpayments, illustrating how auditors' lack of professional skepticism and failure to question management decisions directly compromise the reliability of financial statements.
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Deloitte fined $7.9M by UK regulator for failed audits
Deloitte UK faced a $7.9 million fine for failing to detect that Go-Ahead Group's railway subsidiaries retained $39.6 million in erroneous government overpayments, illustrating how auditors' lack of professional skepticism and failure to question management decisions directly compromise the reliability of financial statements.
The Complicated Reality Behind AI Token Limits
Businesses are rapidly increasing spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools, creating a new expense category that affects operating costs and profitability. This trend illustrates how emerging technologies reshape cost structures and capital allocation decisions.
Vail Resorts’ Revenue Plummets 47%, Pass Sales Drop 12% In Latest Earnings Report - POWDER Magazine
Vail Resorts reported a 47% revenue drop and 12% decline in pass sales, illustrating how horizontal analysis reveals year-over-year percentage changes in income statement line items. This earnings miss shows why tracking the direction and magnitude of revenue shifts matters to stakeholders.
Do it first, name it after.
Each case is one class period inside a small business with a real decision to make. Students reason it out in plain language, and the formal term arrives at the recap as a label for something they already understand.
Every case closes with an optional assessment: exam- style questions about different companies, so you can check whether the idea transferred. Any case can also open a live room where students answer on their phones and the class’s progress fills the front-of-room screen, or you can run it without phones.
Run one before you lecture the chapter.
In betaThese PBLs are actively being developed and tested.
We’re building and iterating on the interactive PBLs in the open. Everything you see is in beta and may change without notice — content, assessments, and delivery are all in flux. We’re aiming for a stable set of PBLs by the Spring 2027 semester.
Feedback is welcome and useful — click the button on any case to send a note directly to the author team.
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Between us we've taught accounting for a long time. Along the way we recorded videos, wrote cases, and started tracking business news that lines up with what we teach.
Students pay attention when the chapter shows up in something they read that morning. This site is where all of it lives.
Take anything that's useful in your classroom.