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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: 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: 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: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity, Presentation

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.

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: 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.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

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.