Classroom Resources
Explore accounting through mind mapping
Use mind mapping to explore how accounting relates to other business departments.
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Skill-building scavenger hunt
Show your students what the accounting world has to offer with this real-life job search.
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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.
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Your accounting career: Where to go & how to get there
This FutureMe-based group activity allows students to explore multiple paths to get to their accounting dream job, highlighting the flexibility, range and options that careers in accounting offer.
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Where am I? A Virtual Field Trip-based activity
Help your students develop their active listening, communication and deductive reasoning skills while exploring CPA careers with this flexible activity leveraging the Virtual Field Trip archives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Virtual Field Trips
Take your students on a trip to the wonderful world of accounting – without leaving your classroom – on our Virtual Field Trips.
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Twist My Words
Students + Words = Story. Use this quick classroom activity for a little play on words, CPA-style.
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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.
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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.
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