Classroom Resources :: Start Here, Go Places.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 15 minutes
Format: Online activity

Future CPA Career Finder

Students scope out future career options with this online quiz.

Topic: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity

The Efficient Student: A Productivity Guide for Future CPAs

Build your productivity skills for high school and beyond.

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

APBP Recruitment Poster

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 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Online activity, Printed material

Accounting Crossword

Test your students’ knowledge of key accounting terms.

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: 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: Accounting practice, Career options, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

Potential, Prestige & Purpose: A primer to the accounting profession

Courtesy of our sister site, ThisWayToCPA.com, this booklet is the go-to resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the accounting profession.

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: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity, Presentation

Sustainable Luxury: An In-Class Accounting Competition

This two-part team accounting competition challenges students to think out of the box to make a luxury hotel more green. The winning idea will rely on teamwork, research, analysis—and a presentation.

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: Accounting practice, Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Printed material

"Bursting with Opportunity" Accounting Careers Intro Card

This folded card gives students an introduction to what exactly accountants do, the benefits of pursuing a career in accounting and words of wisdom from professionals in the field.

Topic: Accounting principles, Career options, Financial literacy
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity, Presentation

Where did you first learn about accounting?

Get a class discussion going with your students about how they first learned about accounting and how it’s part of the world around us.

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: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Printed material

Accounting Career and Educator Resources Posters

Want to pique your students’ interest in an accounting career? Anxious to tell other teachers about the free resources on our site? Then download these printable posters to tout Start Here, Go Places.