Assignment Task: Pixystems Toys Project
Assignment Details: You will work with your team and leverage the data provided by Pixystems (see the Data Overview above for a high-level explanation of data provided) and information obtained from the CFO to identify areas for financial and operational improvement, address issues and errors found in processing or data, and confirm the information that the CFO shared with your team. To do this your group must create analytics that will assess the validity of data and provide the insight the CFO is looking for.
You will meet again with the CFO on 13 Oct 2019 to deliver your results. She is expecting that you have a Tableau visualization representing the analytical procedures you performed and assumptions you made. You will have 10 mins minutes to present this visualization, assumptions made, and recommendations. Each member of your group must have an active speaking role within the presentation.
You will also prepare a final report outlining the following:
Results of the analytics you performed along with your rational for performing and assumptions made.
Insight that the analytics provided management.
Explanation of any analytics you decided not to perform.
Recommendations your team has for improving Pixystems' processes.
Overview of any other issues that Pixystems should follow-up on.
Recommendations on system controls that could be put in place.
Any other data you would like to have obtained from Pixystems.
You will be assessed as follows:
1. Structure of the written report.
2. Choice of the analytics: Method chosen and Rationale for performing analysis.
3. Results of the analytics: Output of Analytics and Discussion of it in context of case study.
5. Presentation: Presentation Style, Content and Q&A.