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Topic: Accounting practice, Career options, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

Potential, Prestige & Purpose: A primer to the accounting profession

Courtesy of our sister site, ThisWayToCPA.com, this booklet is the go-to resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the accounting profession.

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: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity

Budgeting 101: How to be intentional with your spending

Many young adults say they wish they’d learned how to manage their money in school. This handout and class discussion will teach them how to create and maintain a budget for greater financial success.

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, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

Test Your Ethics: A 10-Question Quiz

Strong ethics are important for CPAs. See where your students fall and start a discussion with this multiple-choice quiz that presents a wide range of situations dealing with matters of ethics.

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: Financial literacy
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material, Group activity

Credit Reporting: Myth or Fact?

Do your students really understand how their actions impact their credit? Put them to the test with this fun and interactive card-sorting activity.

Topic: Accounting practice, Career options
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Online activity, Printed material, Group activity, Presentation

Ask a CPA

This multi-part, multi-week project allows students to explore potential career paths as a CPA. By interacting with real-world professionals, students can learn more about specific CPA careers.

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: 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: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Start Here Magazine Issue 11

Being a CPA in the FBI, how to preserve your social media reputation, and how a summer internship rocks are just a few highlights of the magazine.

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, Career options, College prep, Salary
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material