The case Career at Crossroads: Passion or Profession? focuses on the journey of a young professional and multifaceted artist, Manasi Prasad. This case reveals her career progression as she strives to excel while balancing her profession and passion. Manasi Prasad faces multiple dilemmas, trials, and tribulations during her journey. This case highlights the inherent conflict of a young professional at every stage of life. The classic dilemma is between a well-trodden path or a road less traveled and various other decision-making situations. Part A of the case ends at the peak of Manasi's career when she is faced with a crisis, that is, losing her voice, being unable to sing, and having an autoimmune disease. Part B deals with her transition. The case deals with how she led the IME team from concept to reality and subsequently managed the operations; each stage of her career had unique challenges.

The case Career at Crossroads: Passion or Profession? focuses on the journey of a young professional and multifaceted artist, Manasi Prasad. This case reveals her career progression as she strives to excel while balancing her profession and passion. Manasi Prasad faces multiple dilemmas, trials, and tribulations during her journey. This case highlights the inherent conflict of a young professional at every stage of life. The classic dilemma is between a well-trodden path or a road less traveled and various other decision-making situations. Part A of the case ends at the peak of Manasi's career when she is faced with a crisis, that is, losing her voice, being unable to sing, and having an autoimmune disease. Part B deals with her transition. The case deals with how she led the IME team from concept to reality and subsequently managed the operations; each stage of her career had unique challenges.

The case provides a setting in which students can understand the relationship between inventory valuation, cost of goods sold and the gross margin. The inventory accounting policy choice that a company makes would have a direct impact on the company's profitability and its balance sheet. Changes in accounting policy will impact the current performance as well as the future performance. The company in this case changed its valuation of gold from weighted average method to first-in first-out (FIFO) method. Additionally, the case also analyses the relation between hedge accounting and inventory.

The case highlights issues arising from changes in accounting policies followed by Jet Airways during the accounting year ended March 31, 2009. During the first quarter ended June 30, 2008, Jet Airways changed its accounting policy of charging depreciation from written down value method to straight line method on certain aircraft, which resulted in a writeback of excess depreciation of Rs. 9159 million. The company adopted an accounting policy that capitalized and deferred the losses arising out of certain foreign currency exchange difference instead of charging it to the income statement. They had also revalued some of their assets in the previous year. Airline companies have significant fixed assets, and therefore the accounting for depreciation is important. The accounting policy choice that the company makes impacts not only profits and asset values for the current year but those of future years.