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.
Taking an academic fellowship with an institution such as the SEC or the PCAOB is a big commitment. But doing so could reap benefits for your scholarship and teaching, and even change the course of your career.
Excel’s Data Analysis ToolPak allows you to perform many advanced data analytics functions. Here’s how to enable it.
Experts offer their advice on teaching this emerging technology.
Don't be afraid of teaching this easy-to-learn data analysis software.
There are a number of different ways that you can display formulas in Excel. This can be useful when investigating why a certain formula isn’t working correctly or when grading your students’ worksheets to ensure they are using formulas correctly.
Make mundane tasks easier by harnessing the power of automation.
Improve the way you appear on camera with a few simple tweaks.
Try these suggestions from faculty and other experts for reducing the strain and taking better care of yourself and your students.
Preparation can make the difference between a great experience and a mediocre one.
Four professors offer insight and advice on this challenging subject.
VLOOKUP is a formula that allows you to “look up” certain data and retrieve it into another table, by row. This function can be especially useful when you have a well-structured table with information organized by rows (such as a gradebook)!
Use this trend as a springboard into discussing the impact of technology on accounting.
Try this tip and have your most-used functions right at your fingertips.
These teaching tools liven up both in-person and virtual classes.
Variety is the spice of not only life but also teaching and learning. Here are some simple ways to add some S-P-I-C-E to a classroom to break the monotony of an online lecture or hybrid class.
Try these fun and engaging ways of teaching accounting topics.
When teaching depreciation in Introduction to Accounting, faculty always cover a variety of different depreciation methods, including straight-line depreciation. Next time you teach this topic, build your students’ Excel skills by showing them how to use the straight-line (SLN) function in Excel.
Faculty can take these motives into account when attempting to deter cheating in their courses.
Amid the challenges of suddenly pivoting to online teaching midway through the semester, many accounting professors learned new techniques and principles that will inform their teaching this fall.
Keep these principles in mind when assigning and teaching case studies to increase your chances of success.
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Black CPA Centennial, 1921–2021With 2021 marking the 100th anniversary of the first Black licensed CPA in the United States, a yearlong campaign kicked off to recognize the nation’s Black CPAs and encourage greater progress in diversity, inclusion, and equity in the CPA profession.