Try these tips to put together a final exam that helps students retain more, improves their study habits, and encourages them to practice critical thinking.
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How mentorship and sponsorship build your career
Understanding the ways mentorship and sponsorship are distinct can help you get the most out of these relationships.
Making a good impression on a new boss
Getting off on the right foot with a new boss can set the tone for your working relationship.
Succeeding despite adversity: 3 CPAs’ stories
Three CPAs who refused to give up their dreams describe how they kept going through difficult times and the lessons they learned.
Use Excel’s AutoSum button to add up rows and columns with just one click
Want to quickly add up rows or columns of data in your gradebook (or elsewhere)? The AutoSum function makes it easy.
An online pivot can be an opportunity
A faculty member reconfigured her finance class in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis to teach soft skills.
How to get started making videos for your classes
Video-savvy faculty present their best tips and techniques for shooting your own educational videos.
A call for honest leadership
In this time of transformation and innovation, honesty and transparency in leadership are important to motivate staff and create an environment where people feel safe.
How to achieve partner unity
When partners are on the same page, firms propel forward, as opposed to remaining stagnant.
How to accept feedback gracefully
This article discusses ways to make getting criticism feel more productive and less personal.
New options for small business bankruptcies
Changes went into effect in February to ease the burden for smaller businesses seeking relief through the bankruptcy process.
How to use feedback as fuel
Leaders should understand not only how to provide effective feedback but how to receive it as well.
10 real reasons to go (and stay) remote
This article explores the reasons firms should move to remote work management on an ongoing basis and why resisting remote work and service delivery can place a firm at a competitive disadvantage.
Talk to tax clients about what’s really on their minds
A CPA discusses how best to present additional services to tax clients without coming off as pushy or aggressive.
Top cyberthreats targeting accounting firms
An expert outlines three of the top external cyberthreats accounting firms face and provides pointers on how to reduce a firm’s risk of becoming a victim.
Sort by color to group highlighted cells in Excel
Highlighting cells with different colors can help you quickly identify information in a spreadsheet. Excel also lets you sort by color to easily group all the information you’ve highlighted with a given color. Learn how.
Finding the fun in entry-level accounting
These creative approaches show students accounting is not that intimidating.
How (and why) to write for practitioner journals
By writing for these publications, you can introduce your research to a wide audience and have a large impact upon the accounting profession.
5 tips for avoiding burnout
This article discusses ways to reduce–or even eliminate–the downward spiral of burnout.
More fun CPA license plates
This slideshow features 12 original vanity plates coined by CPAs nationwide.
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