Classroom Resources
The Adviser: Picking the Right Intern
Expose your students to the internship interview process.
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Explore accounting through mind mapping
Use mind mapping to explore how accounting relates to other business departments.
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Skill-building scavenger hunt
Show your students what the accounting world has to offer with this real-life job search.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Credit Reporting: Myth or Fact?
Do your students really understand how their actions impact their credit? Put them to the test with this fun and interactive card-sorting activity.
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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.
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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.
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FIND THE FRAUD—CRACK THE CASE
This group activity challenges students to research real cases of fraud that the FBI has solved recently. It’s a good opportunity for your students to think about what went into solving the case.
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