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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: 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: 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.

Topic: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Lesson plan

Create your roadmap: Individual ‘Pathway to CPA’ poster

Becoming a CPA can feel distant and vague, especially to high schoolers. This activity helps students visualize their personal paths and create tangible steps for achieving this ambitious career goal.

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: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Online activity, Printed material, Group activity, Presentation

Ask a CPA

This multi-part, multi-week project allows students to explore potential career paths as a CPA. By interacting with real-world professionals, students can learn more about specific CPA careers.

Topic: College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Online activity, Printed material

The Secret to Choosing the Right College

Deciding where to go to college is a complex decision. This worksheet helps students consider what’s most important to them so they can choose the right college or university.

Topic: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Online activity, Group activity

“Stay Out of the Red” Game

This eye-opening, 12-week game will help your students better understand budgeting and everything else that goes into supporting themselves once they get into the real world.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Group activity

Who Wants to be an Accountant

Have your students work their way to a successful career in accounting by being the first team to choose 10 correct definitions for accounting terms.

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: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Online activity

Read Between the Lines

Students further develop their reasoning skills by exploring CPA profiles and then taking a quiz.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Online activity

Future Job Descriptions

High school students pull from several resources to craft his or her own accounting future job description.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Video, Lesson plan, Group activity

CPA-Centric Field Trips

Find out how to plan and execute several different types of accounting field trips for your class.

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.