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
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Accounting for Good: A Not-for-profit Career Exploration Activity

Students learn how non-profit accountants make a positive social impact.

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: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Pepper Food Delivery: A Transaction Analysis

Have students analyze assets, liabilities, equity, and net income through a Microsoft Excel based activity.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity

Hula Hut

Have students explore the various accounting career paths in this online research activity.

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: Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity

Responding to a Crisis

How Accountants Help Lead the Charge During Difficult Times

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: 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: 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, 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.