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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Twist My Words
Students + Words = Story. Use this quick classroom activity for a little play on words, CPA-style.
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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.
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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.
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S-H-G-P-O Bingo
Test students’ knowledge of accounting terms with this fast-paced variation on the familiar game of Bingo.
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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.
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Bank On It® Game and Educators' Guide
It’s easy to incorporate this fun, interactive accounting-principle-based game into the classroom with the included Educators’ Guide.
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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.
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