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Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Group activity

Outsmart the Opposition

If your class likes Bank On It, they’re going to love this head-to-head competition. It allows teams to leverage their opposition’s missed game questions against them to secure sweet victory.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Lesson plan, Group activity, Presentation

Your accounting career: Where to go & how to get there

This FutureMe-based group activity allows students to explore multiple paths to get to their accounting dream job, highlighting the flexibility, range and options that careers in accounting offer.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Video, Lesson plan, Group activity, Presentation

Where am I? A Virtual Field Trip-based activity

Help your students develop their active listening, communication and deductive reasoning skills while exploring CPA careers with this flexible activity leveraging the Virtual Field Trip archives.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity

Intro to interviewing: Developing skills to help you land the job

Knowing how to interview is an important skill for students to have—throughout their lives. Like any skill, doing it well takes practice. This mock interview experience and class discussion can help.

Topic: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity

Budgeting 101: How to be intentional with your spending

Many young adults say they wish they’d learned how to manage their money in school. This handout and class discussion will teach them how to create and maintain a budget for greater financial success.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

Welcome to the coffeehouse: A team accounting challenge

Being a good accountant requires strong critical thinking skills. This week-to-week challenge helps students develop those skills by running a local coffee shop chain and evaluating strategic choices.

Topic: Accounting practice, Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity, Printed material, Group activity

CPA Task Match

What exactly does a VP of Operations do? This game allows your students to find out. They’ll use Real-Life CPA profiles and context clues to match responsibilities with the CPA who might have them.

Topic: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity

Credit Reporting: Myth or Fact?

Do your students really understand how their actions impact their credit? Put them to the test with this fun and interactive card-sorting activity.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Presentation

Go Green to Get Green, While Doing Good

Have students explore the wide world of eco-friendly accounting by discussing, researching and presenting on the some of the most interesting jobs in the field.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Group activity

Most Valuable Accountant

Students hone their communication skills by debating why the CPA in their selected profile is the best kind of CPA to be.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity

Pin the Task on the Accountant

Use a recent periodical and a truly random selection process to discover the connections between current events and the accounting process.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity

It’s About Supply and Demand

What makes something worth its price?

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Finance and Responsible Lending

Teaching high school students the roles of banks and the decisions they make to determine when to lend money.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Financial Planning for Catastrophe

This lesson will focus on the need to plan financially for unexpected disasters.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Filling Empty Pockets: Borrowing, Loans and Credit

Explore concepts of borrowing and credit, with an emphasis on credit cards. Learn how to build credit, weigh offers and keep out of trouble.

Topic: Salary
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity

Guess Their Salary

When it comes to money, CPAs do pretty well for themselves. This game shows students just how well.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity, Group activity

Analyze This and That

Students use their critical thinking and analytical skills to participate in a class discussion based on articles they’ve read in Start Here Magazine.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity

The Tax Law of the Land

Find out if students know the difference between social and economical tax laws by giving them a short history of tax law origination.