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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: 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.

Topic: Other
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Lesson plan

Shady business: What would you do?

Students can explore two much-needed accounting skills and attributes (ethics and big-picture thinking) through an essay response detailing how each of them would handle a questionable work situation.

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: 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: 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, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

Test Your Ethics: A 10-Question Quiz

Strong ethics are important for CPAs. See where your students fall and start a discussion with this multiple-choice quiz that presents a wide range of situations dealing with matters of ethics.

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: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 15 minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Printed material

Educator Crossword Puzzle

In honor of National Crossword Puzzle Day, we’ve created a special one just for you. It’s time to flip the script and show your students how it’s done by putting your accounting knowledge to the test.

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, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

FutureMe

Having your students answer a few quick questions about what they’re into can show them the real accounting jobs they could have someday—if they pay attention in class.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Printed material, Group activity

Tic-Tac-CPA

It’s the classic game of tic-tac-toe, now with an accounting twist. Test your students’ knowledge and help them prepare for exams with several ways to play.