Bruce Schreiner serves as the principal case author for Ensign Peak Case Studies.  His cases spring from over 45 years of business and educational experience ranging from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 companies.  Bruce was a faculty member at Ensign College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and served as the college’s accounting program director and later, Dean of Faculty.  The College’s efforts to provide its business students with “authentic learning experiences: provided the provided the inspiration for Bruce to begin writing cases using “original documents” to represent realistic financial events rather than the typical transaction lists found in many accounting cases designed for accounting software training.  He wrote “Wasatch Outerwear” as a rigorous case study for an accounting program’s capstone course.

  • During my accounting capstone course, The Wasatch Outerwear Case we used help me to enhance my accounting skills by learning how to read invoices, bill payments, and several other real world documents.  We were also taught how to account for major purchases, such as a building, in Quickbooks.  This was likely the most realistic accounting experience I’ve had in a classroom setting.

    – Thomas Dixon

    LDS Business College

    1st Place International DECA “Financial Statement Analysis”

    Enhanced Accounting Skills

  • Using real life, original document cases helped me prepare to use QuickBooks in a “real world” setting.  On the job I won’t be handed a list of instructions with exactly how I should interpret each transaction, but I’ll have a paper trail of documents presented through the day, including receipts, invoices, work orders, and other physical copies of paperwork that I would expect to see in a real life scenario.  By using realistic paperwork, I was able to read the paper and pull out relevant information that I need to determine which QuickBooks functions I needed to use, and to make the entry properly and accurately.

    – William Douglas

    LDS Business College Graduate (2014)

    1st Place International DECA “Financial Statement Analysis”

    Realistic

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