Case Study of CleanEdison Green Technology
Training and Certification Courses
Kaplan University
CASE STUDY OF CLEANEDISON 2
Abstract
This paper is a case study that was conducted with Avi Yashchin, owner and founder of CleanEdison LLC, where he gave details on his business and accounting department. During the interview he spoke about the clean technology training industry, products, services, markets, customer base, and competitors that he has had since opening the business in 2009. After this detailed introduction he answered specific questions from Chapter 1 BTN 1-8 and Chapter 3 BTN 3-8 Beyond the Numbers sections in the accounting textbook Financial Accounting Information for Decisions 6th Edition (Wild, 2012). This paper is a very good introduction to the green or clean technology training field and gives some insight on how someone that was very passionate about the field started and ran a profitable company in this space for 5 years.
CASE STUDY OF CLEANEDISON 3
Case Study of CleanEdison Green Technology
Training and Certification Courses There are many ways that our modern day society is more conscious of the environment and does their part to reduce the wasting of our resources and looks for other ways of creating alternative energy. For Avi Yashchin, his contribution in trying to reduce the United States dependency on foreign oil and create new renewable energy sources was to start a clean technology training and certification company in New York City. This company was called CleanEdison and had a main goal to train, certify, and lead to employment middle skill gap workers in the sustainability and renewable energy industries. This is primarily made up of training technicians
