CPE SESSION 6 - Wednesday, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Teaching Case-Driven Undergraduate Management Accounting Courses

Description/Objectives:
This workshop will provide an overview of two case-driven nonintroductory undergraduate Management Accounting course models. The workshop will accomplish four objectives. First, it will describe how Management Accounting topics can be organized into one course that focuses on product, customer, and service pricing and mix decision making; and a second course that focuses upon strategic and operational process-oriented performance measurement. Second, it will introduce case studies that can be used to teach each course. Third, it will highlight selected cases to illustrate how they can be taught to undergraduate students. Fourth, it will describe other course management techniques that can be used to support the case study approach, such as designing the grading scheme, managing class participation, and motivating advance class preparation on behalf of the students.

The workshop is meant to be very practical. In other words, participants will leave the workshop with specific ideas about how to organize their undergraduate Management Accounting courses, which cases to use to achieve specific learning objectives, and how to execute the teaching of those cases. Each participant will be provided a copy of the facilitator's course syllabi and the overhead slides used during the workshop.

Format/Structure:
The primary method of conveying information to the participants will be overhead slides. However, I will not dim the lights and recite PowerPoint slides for three hours. I will keep the lights as bright as possible, and I will use actual overhead foils as opposed to PowerPoint slides to enable me to move around the room more freely. I will create a two-way dialogue between the participants and me, and possibly employ group breakout sessions, thereby enabling all of us to learn from each other. Finally, and most importantly, participants will leave with specific insights regarding how to teach case-driven Management Accounting courses.

Intended Audience:
The audience is Managerial Accounting faculty and other faculty who are interested in increasing the usage of the case method in their curriculum.

Presenter:
Peter C. Brewer, Miami University