Classroom Resources :: Start Here, Go Places.

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: 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: 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: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Self-Analysis for a Stellar Career

This activity is designed to help you help your students consider their personalities when exploring their career options.

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: Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Path to CPA

What does it take to be a CPA? Find out on this interactive journey.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Start Here Magazine Issue 11

Being a CPA in the FBI, how to preserve your social media reputation, and how a summer internship rocks are just a few highlights of the magazine.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Start Here Magazine Issue 10

Brush up on apps that will help high school students prepare for college and get an in-depth look at why Gen Y is so interested in accounting.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 9

Take a (thankfully) rare glimpse at what the world would be like without CPAs and find out the best-kept secrets about the accounting profession.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 8

Get tips for networking on social media, planning finances early on and deciding if community college is right for you.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 7

Everything readers need to know about trendy accounting jobs, related salaries and what it takes to get there.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 6

Read up on the salary benefits of being a CPA, the demand for CPAs and the industries that need CPAs.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Special Issue

This edition of is all about careers in accounting – different paths to get there, fields that need CPAs and the college courses that are required.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 5

Issue 5 features articles on how math can be used to nab criminals, and why the Cleveland Indians’ go-to-player is the team CPA.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 4

Issue four includes features on the latest poker champion, a CPA, and Emily Richards, the web’s hottest singer-turned-dot-com-exec.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 3

The third issue of Start Here Magazine takes a look at accounting in the fashion industry and at Harley-Davidson.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 2

The second issue of Start Here Magazine contains several articles that detail AICPA members’ careers in all kinds of fields – even the FBI.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity

Start Here Magazine Issue 1

This issue contains an inside look at the financial gurus behind major corporations and information about accounting on the set of blockbuster films.

Topic: Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Video

Start Going Places: Explore the CPA Profession

What’s being a CPA all about? And how do you actually do it? A future CPA reveals all.

Topic: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Video

Start Going Places: Pursuing an Accounting Ph.D. – Bruce Behn, CPA

Getting the accounting Ph.D. – hard work that pays off.