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ACC/ACF2400 Accounting Information Systems: Part 1: Group Activity

This document provides instructions and exercises for a tutorial on data analytics using pivot tables, pivot charts, and slicers. It includes 3 group activities: [1] Identifying business situations where data analytics may not be appropriate; [2] Answering questions about data quality issues in a sample table; [3] Discussing when data visualization is better or worse than text and tables. It also includes 3 individual exercises: [1] Creating pivot tables and charts from sample data files; [2] Filling in a table about how lack of accurate, complete, consistent, timely, or valid data could harm businesses; [3] Describing analytics that different business functions could perform.

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ACC/ACF2400 Accounting Information Systems: Part 1: Group Activity

This document provides instructions and exercises for a tutorial on data analytics using pivot tables, pivot charts, and slicers. It includes 3 group activities: [1] Identifying business situations where data analytics may not be appropriate; [2] Answering questions about data quality issues in a sample table; [3] Discussing when data visualization is better or worse than text and tables. It also includes 3 individual exercises: [1] Creating pivot tables and charts from sample data files; [2] Filling in a table about how lack of accurate, complete, consistent, timely, or valid data could harm businesses; [3] Describing analytics that different business functions could perform.

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ACC/ACF2400 Accounting Information Systems 
Tutorial 8 – Data Analytics & PivotTables, PivotCharts and Slicers for FM  
 
Part 1: Group Activity  
 
Exercise 1 (Adapted from Romney et.al. (2020) DQ5.4  pp.178) 
 
Identify three unique business situations for which data analytics may not be appropriate. 
Identify why data analytics are not appropriate in these situations and how a decision maker 
should make their decision without using data.  
 
Exercise 2 (Adapted from Romney et.al. (2020) Chapter Quiz pp.203) 
 
Use the following image to answer questions (1) through (7). 

 
 
1. In column 3, which of the following problems do you find? 
A. Data consistency error 
B. Data imputation error 
C. Data contradiction error 
D. Violated attribute dependencies 
 
 
2. In column 5, which of the following problems do you find? 
A. Data pivoting error 
B. Violated attribute dependencies 
C. Data consistency error 
D. Cryptic values 
 
3. In column 7, row 1, which of the following problems do you find? 
A. Data consistency error 
B. Data parsing error 

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C. Data threshold violation 
D. Misfielded data values 
 
4. In row 8 and row 9, which of the following problems do you find? 
A. Data contradiction error 
B. Data concatenation error 
C. Data aggregation error 
D. Duplicate values 
 
5. In column 2, row 7, which of the following problems do you find? 
A. Data threshold error 
B. Data entry error 
C. Violated attribute dependencies 
D. Dichotomous variable problem 
 
6. Column 4, row 12, is most likely an example of which of the following? 
A. Data imputation 
B. Crytic data value 
C. Violated attribute dependencies 
D. Listing the date in serial date format 
 
7. Which of the following could be used to catch the problems listed in the image? 
A. Visual inspection 
B. Basic statistical tests 
C. Auditing a sample 
D. All of the above 
 
Exercise 2 (Adapted from Romney et.al. (2020) DQ7.3 pp.237) 
In what circumstances is data visualisation better than using text explanations and tables of 
numeric data? In what situations is it worse? Justify your reasoning.  
 
 
Part 2: PivotTables, PivotCharts and Slicer for FM 
Download the following files from Moodle (Week8>Tutorial 8): 
 ACC_ACF2400_tutorial8_ex1.xlsx (instructions for exercise 1 are in this workbook) 
 Tute8_ex1_tbl_Batch.csv (for exercise 1) 
 Tute8_ex1_tbl_Product.csv (for exercise 1) 
 Tute8_ex1_tbl_ProductsBatch.txt (for exercise 1) 
 ACF_ACF2400_tutorial8_ex2.xlsx (instructions for exercise 2 are in this workbook) 
 ACF_ACF2400_tutorial8_ex3.xlsx (instructions for exercise 3 are in this workbook) 
 
 
   

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Part 3: Extra Questions for Practice  
 
Exercise 1 (Adapted from Romney et.al. (2020) DQ6.2 pp.204) 
 
Fill in the table below by discussing a business scenario that would be harmed if data did not 
have the data attribute. 
Attribute  Problematic Business Scenario 
Accurate   
Complete   
Consistent   
Timely   
Valid   
 
 
Exercise 2 (Adapted from Romney et.al. (2020) DQ7.1 pp.237) 
 
Fill in the table below by describing one analytic for each analytic type that the business 
function could perform 
  Descriptive  Diagnostic  Predictive  Prescriptive 
Accounting and         
Finance 
Information         
Technology 
 
 

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