You are an accounts payable supervisor at the Acme accounting
firm. You are responsible for approving or disapproving customer
invoices. You will be presented with a collection of documents.
They will include several emails on which you were copied and the
standard services price list for the firm. The emails document
the various services performed by employees of Acme on behalf of ABC
and should be reflected in the invoice. Following
these documents will be an invoice to the ABC company for services
rendered.
Please look over the documents and if everything looks correct, approve
the invoice by clicking the approve button at the bottom of the invoice
page. If you believe you have found an error, you may reject the
invoice pressing the reject button and by noting the mistakes when
prompted.
*This scenario and the associated materials were adapted
from case OVA-OB-1140 “A Billing Bind” of the Giving Voice to Values
(GVV) curriculum. The original case was developed by Ellen Mrowka
and Jessica McManus Warnell, University of Notre Dame and Karen
Whelan-Berry, Providence College. It was based on an actual
internship experience but the names and other situational details were
changed. Also, interview sources were left uncredited, with
permission, to preserve confidentiality. To learn more about GVV
and obtain the original source materials go to
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/ibis/initiatives/giving-voice-to-values/.
No part of these materials may be altered or reproduced without
permission.