Master of Management (Accounting)

Case studies may be fictitious or based on real events.

They can be as brief as a one paragraph overview or a detailed report.

You may also be given a basic question where you have to uncover the details yourself with a real client.

Case studies are widely used in accounting education to promote synthesis and analysis of content and to develop high level professional skills and tools.

Professional Development skills

They also feature in the examination structure of many professional bodies.

Practical Job Skills

Real life case studies often don’t have a straightforward, single solution, so you will have the opportunity to develop problem solving, communication and group working skills, in addition to technical knowledge.

Resources for why and how to use case studies

• The real life guide to accounting research : a behind-the-scenes view of using qualitative research methods (2004)
  

• Using Case Studies in Accounting Education 
  [Special issue]. Accounting Education: An International Journal, 13(2). (2004)
   
• Case study research for business / Jillian Dawes Farquhar. (2012)

• Applications of case study research / Robert K. Yin. (2012)
   
• Case Study Research (ebook) : Theory, Methods and Practice. (2010)

Case Studies in Business and Economics - Subject Research Guide 
This guide will help you find quality case studies in our journal and business databases.

Other resources include:

Online Case Studies

• The Times 100 business case studies
• Case Place

Books

Accounting

• Auditing and accounting cases : investigating issues of fraud and professional ethics / Jay C. Thibodeau, Deborah Freier. (2014)
   
• Shapland & Turner : cases in financial accounting / Julia P. Shapland ; Cynthia W. Turner. (2013)
   
• Accounting : text and cases / Robert N. Anthony, David F. Hawkins, Kenneth A. Merchant. (2011)

Auditing

• Contemporary auditing : real issues and cases / Michael C. Knapp. (2015)
   
• Auditing and assurance : a case studies approach / Nonna Martinov-Bennie, Peter Roebuck, Dominic Soh (2014)
   
• Auditing and accounting cases : investigating issues of fraud and professional ethics / Jay C. Thibodeau, Deborah Freier. (2014)

Taxation

• Price drivers : five case studies in how government is making Australia unaffordable / Oliver Marc Hartwich and Rebecca Gill. (2011)

Finance

• Corporate Governance, capital markets, and capital budgeting [EBOOK] : an integrated approach / Baliira Kalyebara, Sardar M.N. Islam. (2014)
   
• Financial Statements Analysis [EBOOK] : Cases from Corporate India. (2014)