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Topic: Accounting principles, Career options, Financial literacy
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity, Presentation

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.

Topic: Career options, Forensics, Fraud
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity

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.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Printed material, Group activity

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.

Topic: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Online activity, Group activity

“Stay Out of the Red” Game

This eye-opening, 12-week game will help your students better understand budgeting and everything else that goes into supporting themselves once they get into the real world.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Video, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Virtual Field Trips

Take your students on a trip to the wonderful world of accounting – without leaving your classroom – on our Virtual Field Trips.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

Hot Potato

Get your students out of their seats and on their feet to test their accounting knowledge with this engaging in-class activity.

Topic: Career options, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity

CFO OMG

Engage your students in the business of making bank by researching the financial top-dogs of today’s coolest companies.

Topic: Accounting principles, Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

Twist My Words

Students + Words = Story. Use this quick classroom activity for a little play on words, CPA-style.

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.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Video, Lesson plan, Group activity

CPA-Centric Field Trips

Find out how to plan and execute several different types of accounting field trips for your class.

Topic: Accounting practice
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Group activity

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.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Printed material, Group activity

S-H-G-P-O Bingo

Test students’ knowledge of accounting terms with this fast-paced variation on the familiar game of Bingo.

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.

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

The Tax Law of the Land

Find out if students know the difference between social and economical tax laws by giving them a short history of tax law origination.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

The Business of Interest

Calculating interest and developing sustainable business practices.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Invest in Yourself

All about personal financial management strategies based on budgeting.

Topic: Salary
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Group activity

Guess Their Salary

When it comes to money, CPAs do pretty well for themselves. This game shows students just how well.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Financial Planning for Catastrophe

This lesson will focus on the need to plan financially for unexpected disasters.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Lesson plan, Online activity, Group activity

Finance and Responsible Lending

Teaching high school students the roles of banks and the decisions they make to determine when to lend money.