CPA Townhall: How to generate exam awareness early on
An experimental event aimed at providing students with CPA Exam information has become an annual occasion.
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This monthly e-newsletter brings you a roundup of the top stories affecting accounting education, ideas for innovation in the classroom, and resources from the AICPA to support educators.
An experimental event aimed at providing students with CPA Exam information has become an annual occasion.
Three accounting academics offer advice on how to handle grade change requests.
The legislation could increase funding for accounting awareness and education.
Follow this advice to be the best “sage on the stage.”
By typing into the title slide you can access a range of design ideas related to the topic of your presentation.
Follow this advice to help students find their voices.
Research with a pragmatic bent can aid practitioners.
Connect students with practicing accountants to help overcome stereotypes.
Data analytics is a new means to the same end: providing high-quality and timely information to decision-makers.
The Transpose feature allows you to rotate data from columns to rows and vice versa from rows to columns without reentering any of the data.
Tweak your assignments to bolster students’ communication skills.
Demonstrate the importance of integrity to the profession.
Using range names in Excel allows you to quickly navigate to areas of your worksheet and makes formulas much easier to create.
When teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. Consider teaching students to calculate the issue price by using the net present value function in Excel.
Follow these tips for successful interdepartmental collaborations.
Models can help faculty teach — and students grasp — this important subject.
A few small changes can help you reach students with and without disabilities.
When teaching cost behavior in a managerial or cost accounting course, we explain that there are various methods a company can use to estimate its fixed and variable costs, including regression analysis. The next time you cover this topic, consider teaching students how to perform a simple linear regression analysis in Excel.
Today’s accounting graduates are tasked with learning new technologies at a more rapid pace, dealing with larger datasets, and solving more complex problems earlier on in their careers than their predecessors did.
Advanced Filter allows you to generate a unique list of items and extract those items to another place in your worksheet or workbook.
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