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Financial Statement Analysis Project: "The Big Simulation", Luna Y. Goldblatt, Joao Q. Chaves, Andrew M. Landman, Salmin B. Mwinjuma, Braden C. Vitelli

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This project uses real-world financial statements (for Best Buy Co. Inc. and Nvidia Corporation) and creates a role-playing game where students can choose to be one of 4 capital market participants: an innovator that designs a brand-new accounting system, a company that prepares its best version of financial statements, an investor that chooses its ideal portfolio stocks, and a forensic accountant that looks for evidence of earnings management. The project helps student learn to conduct financial statement analysis and appreciate the impact of these statements on company financial ratios and capital market performance.

Ms – 242: Guide To The Muriel Rice Collection Of Nocasinogettysburg, Karen Dupell Drickamer

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Muriel Rice, along with Susan Paddock, led the campaign to stop David LeVan’s proposal to build a casino in Straban Township in 2005-2006. The two women co-chaired the organization and led it to its successful conclusion. This one box collection of Muriels’s papers supplements MS-209 NoCasinoGettysburg Papers and contains Muriel’s letters and emails as well as some NoCasino’s working files, printouts from the organization’s web-site, NoCasino.com, letters to the editor, and news clippings for 2005-2006. Although arranged in a similar fashion to MS-209, the collection’s small size (0.75 cu. ft.) did not warrant division into Series.

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Ms-226: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Trade Cards, Olivia R. Simmet

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This collection contains 80 nineteenth century trade cards from businesses primarily in Philadelphia (six are from other Pennsylvania location) as well as two decorative images and one three- dimensional square map of Central Europe in German. The cards advertise for a variety of goods and services, including clothing, groceries, beauty and health products, printers, plumbers, jewelers, florists, and more. Many of the cards depict cherubic children, fashionable men and women, prudent consumers using the products advertised, fine art, and include poems, promotions, and manufacturer guarantees. These cards may be of interest to anyone studying methods of advertisement and marketing, graphic …

Ms-207 – The Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. Papers: Dan Gilbert’S Bookshelf, Amy Lucadamo

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The Daniel R. Gilbert Papers, aka Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf, is a collection designed by Prof. Gilbert with the intention of documenting the development of his signature Organization and Management Studies (OMS) courses. Because book selection is crucial to the design of his courses, Gilbert requested that Special Collections and College Archives retain integral texts with this manuscript collection. The texts in combination with course syllabi and assignments encapsulate the course experience for Gilbert’s classes. This collection does not contain personal research conducted by Gilbert for his many publications. Hard copies of many of Gilbert’s publications are located in Glibert’s Vertical …