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Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Accounting for Good: A Not-for-profit Career Exploration Activity

Students learn how non-profit accountants make a positive social impact.

Topic: Career options, Forensics, Fraud
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

White-Collar Crime Quiz

Students learn how CPAs slash financial fraud in this quiz activity.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Pepper Food Delivery: A Transaction Analysis

Have students analyze assets, liabilities, equity, and net income through a Microsoft Excel based activity.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

APBP Recruitment Poster

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Hula Hut

Have students explore the various accounting career paths in this online research activity.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity

To Infinity and Beyond: An Accounting Career Research Activity

This activity will give you a glimpse into the skills, interests, and experience needed to start your CPA career by exploring some of the top industries where accountants work and the exciting roles t

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Printed material

Understanding Long-Term Debt: A WebQuest Activity

Have students explore the major terms and formulas needed to assess the long-term health of an organization in this end-of-year WebQuest activity.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Online activity, Printed material

Accounting Crossword

Test your students’ knowledge of key accounting terms.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity

Responding to a Crisis

How Accountants Help Lead the Charge During Difficult Times

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, College prep
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Online activity, Group activity

The Adviser: $elling $neakers

An Advanced Accounting Challenge

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Lesson plan, Printed material

The Adviser: Sweater Weather

Have your students explore their creative side with this supply and demand activity.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Group activity, Presentation

The Adviser: The Art of Appreciation

Show your students the power of giving thanks.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

The Adviser: Picking the Right Intern

Expose your students to the internship interview process.

Topic: Fraud
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity, Presentation

The Adviser: Fraud Detective

Teach your students why internal controls are needed to avoid accounting fraud.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise

The Adviser: Picking the Right Depreciation

Picking the Right Depreciation Method

Topic: Career options, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

Explore accounting through mind mapping

Use mind mapping to explore how accounting relates to other business departments.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity, Group activity, Presentation

Skill-building scavenger hunt

Show your students what the accounting world has to offer with this real-life job search.

Topic: Accounting principles, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity, Presentation

Students turned teachers

This month, hand over the reins as your students research an emerging technology disrupting the accounting world and take center stage to educate their classmates on their findings.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity

Navigating issues in the workplace

Conflict is an unavoidable side-effect of human interaction. Show your students how uncomfortable situations can serve as opportunities to innovate and to strengthen relationships.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Lesson plan

Create the next big accounting podcast

Future accountants can strengthen their collaboration skills and tech savviness by creating a pilot episode for their own unique accounting-related podcast.