The Adviser: Sweater Weather
Have your students explore their creative side with this supply and demand activity.
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Classroom Resources
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Start Here Magazine Issue 7
Everything readers need to know about trendy accounting jobs, related salaries and what it takes to get there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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