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How to handle AI chatbots in the classroom
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are very popular among students. Here’s how some professors are handling them.
Insights on improving management accounting education
Educators shared strategies at a recent AICPA CGMA teaching symposium to attract students to the profession and to prepare them for a career in management accounting.
Use Design Ideas in PowerPoint to create an animated title slide
By typing into the title slide you can access a range of design ideas related to the topic of your presentation.
How to easily transpose data in Excel
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.
Using range names in Excel
Using range names in Excel allows you to quickly navigate to areas of your worksheet and makes formulas much easier to create.
Calculating the issue price of a bond using the NPV function in Excel
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.
Performing a simple linear regression in Excel
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.
The Excel Advanced Filter function gives you flexibility
Advanced Filter allows you to generate a unique list of items and extract those items to another place in your worksheet or workbook.
How Excel COUNTIF function saves time when analyzing final grades
When analyzing grades (especially for a large class) the COUNTIF function in Excel can be extremely helpful.
Teach students tech (and more) with award-winning assignments
Learn about some of the assignments and activities that won AICPA Effective Learning Strategies Educator Awards this year.
Edit PDF documents in Word to save time
Did you know that you can edit PDF documents in Microsoft Word? Simply open a PDF document in Word.
Zoom in on part of a slide during a PowerPoint presentation
Call your students’ attention to calculations or other details of PowerPoint slides as you present.
AICPA, NASBA launch CPA Evolution Model Curriculum
The AICPA and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) have launched the CPA Evolution Model Curriculum (CPAEMC), a recommended blueprint for an accounting program designed to help educators prepare graduates for the changing demands of the CPA profession.
Use the Camera tool in Excel to create dynamic screenshots
The Camera tool is a handy function that allows you and your students to see how part of one spreadsheet changes in real time when you make changes to another.
Format column headings in Excel to make them easier to read
Learn three simple formatting tricks to make column headings – or other cells – more readable in Excel.
See descriptive statistics in Excel
Learn how to use Excel to quickly calculate basic descriptive statistics for a dataset, including mean, standard deviation, minimums, and maximums.
Add the Data Analysis ToolPak to Excel
Excel’s Data Analysis ToolPak allows you to perform many advanced data analytics functions. Here’s how to enable it.
Various ways to display formulas in Excel
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.
Spend less time on repetitive tasks with Excel macros
Make mundane tasks easier by harnessing the power of automation.
Use VLOOKUP to help manage your gradebook
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)!
