Classroom Resources :: Start Here, Go Places.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Printed material

APBP Recruitment Poster

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity

To Infinity and Beyond: An Accounting Career Research Activity

This activity will give you a glimpse into the skills, interests, and experience needed to start your CPA career by exploring some of the top industries where accountants work and the exciting roles t

Topic: Accounting practice, Accounting principles, College prep
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Practice exercise, Online activity, Group activity

The Adviser: $elling $neakers

An Advanced Accounting Challenge

Topic: Career options, Other
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Practice exercise, Group activity

Explore accounting through mind mapping

Use mind mapping to explore how accounting relates to other business departments.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 45 minutes
Format: Online activity, Group activity, Presentation

Skill-building scavenger hunt

Show your students what the accounting world has to offer with this real-life job search.

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: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Multi-day
Format: Lesson plan

Create your roadmap: Individual ‘Pathway to CPA’ poster

Becoming a CPA can feel distant and vague, especially to high schoolers. This activity helps students visualize their personal paths and create tangible steps for achieving this ambitious career goal.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Lesson plan, Group activity, Presentation

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.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Video, Lesson plan, Group activity, Presentation

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.

Topic: Accounting practice, Career options
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Under 30 Minutes
Format: Online activity, Printed material, Group activity

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.

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 practice, Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Printed material

"Bursting with Opportunity" Accounting Careers Intro Card

This folded card gives students an introduction to what exactly accountants do, the benefits of pursuing a career in accounting and words of wisdom from professionals in the field.

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
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Presentation

Go Green to Get Green, While Doing Good

Have students explore the wide world of eco-friendly accounting by discussing, researching and presenting on the some of the most interesting jobs in the field.

Topic: College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Printed material

Students’ Guide to: Mastering the SATs

This one-page quick reference guide serves up a little bit of everything your students need to know to do their best on the SAT.

Topic: Career options
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Printed material

Accounting Career and Educator Resources Posters

Want to pique your students’ interest in an accounting career? Anxious to tell other teachers about the free resources on our site? Then download these printable posters to tout Start Here, Go Places.

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

FutureMe

Having your students answer a few quick questions about what they’re into can show them the real accounting jobs they could have someday—if they pay attention in class.

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: Career options, College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Flexible
Format: Online activity, Printed material

Self-Analysis for a Stellar Career

This activity is designed to help you help your students consider their personalities when exploring their career options.

Topic: College prep
Difficulty: Basic
Duration: Under 5 minutes
Format: Online activity, Printed material

The Secret to Choosing the Right College

Deciding where to go to college is a complex decision. This worksheet helps students consider what’s most important to them so they can choose the right college or university.