CPA Exam’s top scorers earn Elijah Watt Sells Award
The award, established in 1923, recognizes outstanding performance across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination.
Accounting Education
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.
What to do if students don’t like their grades
Three accounting academics offer advice on how to handle grade change requests.
How to make lectures interesting
Follow this advice to be the best “sage on the stage.”
Legislation introduced in Senate to recognize accounting as a STEM field in K-12 education
The legislation could increase funding for accounting awareness and education.
Use your knowledge to boost the profession
Research with a pragmatic bent can aid practitioners.
Help students overcome speaking anxiety
Follow this advice to help students find their voices.
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.
Get students excited about the accounting profession
Connect students with practicing accountants to help overcome stereotypes.
Teach students to address accounting questions using data analytics
Data analytics is a new means to the same end: providing high-quality and timely information to decision-makers.
What one CPA calls ‘the best job in the world’
Find out why the subject of January’s Last Word feature enjoys her work, plus get a preview of the annual tax filing season quick guide in this podcast with transcript.
Help students tell the story behind the numbers
Tweak your assignments to bolster students’ communication skills.
7 steps to help stop cheating
Demonstrate the importance of integrity to the profession.
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.
Nancy Bagranoff, CPA, DBA
Finding a way to establish a connection is the key to communicating and collaborating with young people, according to Nancy Bagranoff, CPA, DBA.
A road map for learning data analytics
Models can help faculty teach — and students grasp — this important subject.
Work with other departments to bring more tech to your curricula
Follow these tips for successful interdepartmental collaborations.
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.
AICPA, NASBA publish revised CPA Evolution Model Curriculum
In response to feedback, the AICPA and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy on Friday updated the curriculum resource that was launched in June to help faculty align their programs with the new Core + Disciplines licensure model created by the CPA Evolution initiative.
