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Topic: Accounting principles, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity, Presentation

Students turned teachers

This month, hand over the reins as your students research an emerging technology disrupting the accounting world and take center stage to educate their classmates on their findings.

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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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.