Academic Projects
Business Plan/Mock Presentation to the Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Class: Business Communications
The group project entailed creating a mock presentation to the Dallas Chamber of Commerce to obtain funding for a non-profit event to help visually disabled students in the Dallas Independent School District. Our team pretended to partner with Cigna Insurance and a non-profit visual disability company to create an event to earn money to donate to the DISD to purchase technology for visually disabled children. We researched and confirmed that DISD has low funding for visual disability technology and determined that there was a major need for new technology. We created a comedy event that guests would purchase tickets to and while enjoying stand-up comedy would also learn about children with visual disability and how their money will help students in the Dallas school district. Our business plan provided analysis of micro and macro-level metrics that show a return on investment of 500%.
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Skill Set:
Public Presentation, Accounting principles, Finance analysis, understanding of business concepts, team work
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Analysis of Accounting Procedures &
Reconciliation of End of Year Accounts
Class: Accounting Analysis & Design
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This project requires the student to act as a Chief Accountant of a company and to ensure that all the accounts are accurate, the student must review all transactions that took place within December 2016 and confirm that they have been documented correctly as per the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. After reviewing 17 different situational problems, the student then required to ensure that all accounts are accurate for the year end account reports and produce multiple financial schedules including: an updated general ledger, an accurate general journal, a bank reconciliations reports for operating and payroll bank accounts, an Accounts Receivable aging report, a fixed asset report, as well as an Accounts Payable aging report.
Skill Set:
Accounting Principles, Audit Procedures, Problem Solving, Internal Control Procedures, Information Analysis
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Marketing Plan
Class: Marketing
This project required our team to develop a marketing plan for a product or service that would be able to marketed to the local Dallas area. Our team developed a plan to develop a coffee shop called Grumpy Joe’s which would be located down the block from UTD and would be marketed toward students of UTD. All of our products would be purchased from local vendors to encourage local business growth. Grumpy Joe’s differed from other coffee shops because it offers competitive prices to corporate coffee shops with a bit of an edge. Students could come to our coffee shop 24-hours a day to purchase our products while also have the ability to study or play board games and socialize with other students.
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Skill Set:
Marketing Concepts, Financial Analysis, Account Principles, Entrepreneurship concepts, understanding of business concepts, SWOT analysis, Public Presentation, team work
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