Hello everyone,
Thank you for submitting your topic proposal along with your research! I wanted to give you a heads-up that I would recommend some of you narrow down your topic/thesis and resubmit your topic proposal. The topic will cover one critical incident in the accounting/tax, and students will analyze the incident/case. Thus, it has been recommended to find the latest news about some issues. For example, our team project cases address similar topics: Accounting for Bitcoin at Tesla or The Pfizer-Allergen Tax Inversion (dealing with one specific company). Please refer to the Case Writing Guideline and sample case papers on Canvas.
Your tentative topic is very interesting! However, the topic seems to be broad and/or it has been published in many journals. As previously discussed, we do not write research articles in this class. That will take lots of time and effort.
Please consider one of the important incidents which have some implication for the accounting industry. Below are the approved topics submitted from Class
- The focus of my thesis is to shed light on how Roadrunner inflated their earnings and projections by spreading out expenses over a prolonged period, thereby reducing their impact: https://www.sec.gov/enforce/33-11156-sLinks to an external site.
- SVB Crisis & Its Aftermath: What Accountants Should Know?: https://www.acecloudhosting.com/blog/svb-crisis-its-aftermath-what-accountants-should-know/Links to an external site.
- FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Charged with 12 Counts in New Indictment.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 23 Feb. 2023,www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-cryptocurrency-exchange-charges#:~:text=Bankman%2DFried%20was%20previously%20charged%20with%20eight%20counts%20of%20fraud,home%20in%20Palo%20Alto%2C%20CaliforniaLinks to an external site.
- Clariant – Accounting Fraud/ “Whistleblowers Allege Accounting Fraud at Swiss Chemicals Group Clariant.” Whistleblower Network News, 25 Feb. 2022,https://whistleblowersblog.org/corporate-whistleblowers/whistleblowers-allege-accounting-fraud-at-swiss-chemicals-group-clariant/Links to an external site.