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Topic: Fraud
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Group activity, Presentation

The Adviser: Fraud Detective

Teach your students why internal controls are needed to avoid accounting fraud.

Topic: Accounting principles
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise

The Adviser: Picking the Right Depreciation

Picking the Right Depreciation Method

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

It’s About Supply and Demand

What makes something worth its price?

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.

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

Filling Empty Pockets: Borrowing, Loans and Credit

Explore concepts of borrowing and credit, with an emphasis on credit cards. Learn how to build credit, weigh offers and keep out of trouble.

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

Analyze This and That

Students use their critical thinking and analytical skills to participate in a class discussion based on articles they’ve read in Start Here Magazine.

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.