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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: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

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.

Topic: Accounting practice, Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity, Printed material, Group activity

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.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Presentation

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.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Group activity

Most Valuable Accountant

Students hone their communication skills by debating why the CPA in their selected profile is the best kind of CPA to be.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity

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.