Accounting Learning Resources

Accounting Education Using Computers and Multimedia
Discussion listserv offering subscribers an opportunity to talk about accounting hardware and software that is useful in accounting education. Faculty only.
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/aecm/

Accounting Education: Charting the Course through a Perilous Future
Accounting Education: Charting the Course through a Perilous Future. Accounting Education Series, Volume No. 16.
http://www.aaahq.org/pubs/AESv16/toc.htm

Accounting Games at StartHere.GoPlaces.com
A teachers' resource kit from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants designed to be used along with the Money Means Business online, self-paced workshop for students. Requires a free Future Me account registration.
http://www.startheregoplaces.com/games/

Accounting Monopoly
Website on creating a Monopoly Accounting game in order to teach students in a fun, interactive way.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5687/monopoly.html

American Accounting Association faculty development page
Contains links to resources for teaching accounting at the two-year college; papers on the changes in accounting education; knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by accounting faculty; and resources on program assessment.
http://aaahq.org/facdev.cfm

American Institution of CPA's Work/Life and Women's Initiatives
List of case studies from American Institution of CPAs on their newest project.
http://tinyurl.com/yqyngz

American Taxation Association course syllabi exchange
Website offering links to many accounting course syllabi from professors across the country.
http://aaahq.org/ata/_ATAMenu/TeachingSyllabiExchange.htm

Beyond Albrecht and Sack: A Comparison of Accounting Professionals and College Students
This study takes a look at skills development of accounting students, as well as comparing the views of students with those of professors in an effort to find possible discrepancies.
http://www.aicpa.org/download/career/edu/Beyond_Albrect_Sach.pdf

Canadian Academic Accounting Association Educator's Forum
Provides articles on accounting education.
http://www.caaa.ca/Education/index.html

Core Competency Framework & Educational Competency Assessment Web Site
Sample Teaching Strategies and Teaching Techniques that address the core competencies
http://tinyurl.com/2ubhbe

Internships and Experiential Learning
Guidelines for creating, implementing and administering internship programs.
http://tinyurl.com/q2sabg

Money Means Business
A self-paced workshop designed to introduce students to business and accounting while giving them a taste of real-life corporate decision-making and insight into the financial aspects of the business world.
http://www.startheregoplaces.com/games/mmb/?SSID=DF5BA513F94F478892F301117912AAE6

Resources for change in accounting education
Various monographs from the Accounting Education Change Commission (full text).
http://aaahq.org/AECC/index.htm

Response by the Federation of Schools of Accountancy to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Position on Accounting Education (2003)
Article written in response to a study done by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The authors of this article wrote it with the intent of opening public dialogue on the state of accounting education today.
http://www.thefsa.org/downloads/Response_byFSA.pdf

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
Tax and Accounting metasite, offering links to websites on various accounting and tax topics.
http://www.taxsites.com/

The Crisis in Accounting Education
This article discusses the growing need for updated accounting curriculum in order to equip students and graduates for today's business environment.
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/apr2002/gabbin.htm

Writing Skills for the Tax Professional
Basic Writing Skills for the Accounting Profession
http://www.gsu.edu/~accerl/