Class 10

Preliminary Proposal Meetings

Monday, October 27, 2025

Class Overview

Why is this important?

The preliminary proposal meetings serve as an essential touch point for students to improve both their feedback reception and communication skills in a professional setting. By presenting a draft proposal, teams gain early insights into whether their plan is feasible and aligned with the final project’s goals. These meetings also provide a structured way for students to connect early course material to the final project, allowing them to identify the necessary steps to complete their project successfully. This iterative feedback process is critical to helping students navigate open-ended challenges and ensures they have a clear pathway to completion.

What will we do?

In this class, teams will meet one-on-one with the professor to discuss their preliminary plans for the final project. These meetings are informal, designed to provide teams with feedback on the feasibility of their proposed audit plans and how well they align with the open-ended final project requirements. The focus is on refining their approach, ensuring that teams are on the right track, and helping them understand how to implement key concepts learned throughout the course. This is a valuable opportunity for teams to ask questions and receive constructive feedback before moving forward with their project.

How this relates to other classes:

This class draws on all prior classes in both ACCTG 522 and ACCTG 522. In particular, it reinforces the planning elements covered in ACCTG 522, where students learned how to structure audit plans, as well as the ETL concepts from ACCTG 522. The proposal meetings allow students to consolidate their learning from both courses and apply those concepts to their final project. The meetings also give students a chance to think critically about how the skills and techniques developed in earlier classes are directly relevant to executing their final project.

Materials and Preparation

Class Materials
  • Link: Information on the MPAcc Fall Common Final Project.
  • No slides are available for this class.
  • Analytics Tools: None
  • Suggested Pre-Class Preparation
    1. I recommend teams prepare for this meeting in advance as the meeting and memo associated with this class are part of your assessment.
    2. Teams are only expected to meet with the instructor and are not expected to watch other teams meetings.
  • Class Plan
    1. Teams will be randomly assigned to a time slot to meet with the instructor.
    2. Teams will have submitted their memo to canvas.
    3. Teams will start the meeting by providing an outline of the approach they will be taking to complete the final project, if necessary, I will ask clarifying questions. Teams will provide their assessment on the feasibility of the project and what analytic skills they are hoping to acquire to complete the task. I will provide my initial feedback on the project and answer any other questions.