1.
Steps for Better Thinking
Presenter: Susan K. Wolcott, WolcottLynch
Description: This poster
session will introduce applications of Steps for Better Thinking, a model
grounded in developmental psychology. The model helps professors foster and
assess student competencies such as critical thinking, ethical reasoning,
communication, teamwork, risk analysis, and lifelong learning.
2.
Ethics Education In Accounting: Post
Enron
Presenter: Mary Beth Armstrong, California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo
Description: This session
identifies three levels of ethics that should be addressed in accounting
curricula: the macro, the micro, and the level of the firm. It includes a
handout to help academics explain the history of several issues included in
Sarbanes-Oxley.
3.
Learning to Develop Student Capability for
Critical Thinking
Presenters: A. Faye Borthick, Georgia State University
Carol W. Springer, Georgia State University
Ronald S. Barden, Georgia State University
Description: Do you want your
students to develop critical-thinking skills while mastering accounting
concepts and procedures? Learn how to shift your instruction from
"covering material" to developing and assessing critical thinking in
your students.
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Analysis of the Approaches to Learning by
Accounting and Business Students in Australia-Evaluating the Classroom
Presenter: Robyn Pilcher, Charles Sturt University
Description: The Revised
Study Process Questionnaire
- Easy tool to appraise effectiveness
of innovative teaching;
- Used to gain clearer understanding
of student learning;
- Implications for educators with
respect to assessment and contextual elements in the teaching and learning
system.
6.
If You Build It, They May Come; If They
Build It, They Will Learn
Presenter: C. David Strupeck, Indiana University Northwest
Description: Tired of the
same old, same old? Let your students "build" a product of their own.
This semester-long managerial accounting assignment takes the student from
product selection through pro forma financials and includes an oral
presentation to community bankers.
7.
Concrete Steps to Increase Student
Critical and Creative Thinking
Presenters: Charles J. F. Leflar, University of Arkansas
Deborah W. Thomas, University of Arkansas
Description: "… for
most of us, creativity is more of a dull glow than a divine spark. And the more
fanning it receives, the brighter it will burn." J. L. Adams, Conceptual
Blockbusting. (1986, p. 10.) Help students develop critical- and
creative-thinking skills through activities and assignments that foster
curiosity, openness, observation, risk taking, and mental energy. And have fun,
too!
8. Implementing
Interactive Learning Experiences in Accounting Curricula
Presenters: Maria Sanchez, Rider University
Kevin
F. Brown, Drexel University
Christopher
P. Agoglia, Drexel University
Description: This session
provides a roadmap for instructors anxious to provide a "real world"
experience of accounting for their students. The interactive learning
experience presented enables instructors to expose students to the profession
and improve their understanding of the practice environment.
9.
Contextual Learning in Accounting
Presenter: Alan Teixeira, Institute of Chartered Accountants of New
Zealand
Description: Are you
interested in improving your teaching evaluations or attracting and keeping top
performing students? Contextual Learning can help you achieve both. See the
evidence and view a range of resources that have been used successfully in
several accounting courses.
10.
Strategies for Holding Students'
Attention
Presenter: Robert Allen, University of Utah
Description: If students are
not attentive, even for short periods of class, then they aren't getting as
much from class as is optimal. This session explores strategies for holding
students' attention.
11.
Contract Grading: Impact on Student
Learning and Motivation in Accounting and Management Classes
Presenters: Anne C. Warrington, Michigan Technological University
Amy B. Hietapelto, Michigan Technological University
William B. Joyce, Eastern Illinois University
Description: What's the one
thing intro-accounting students fear most? … and the number one answer is
"I have no control over my grade!!" Contract grading actually lets
students participate in the grade assessment process and the instructor stays
in control, too. How? Visit our poster session!!
12.
Service Learning in Accounting
Programs
Presenter: Margarita Maria Lenk, Colorado State University
Description: Service learning
is the idea that students can better learn some of their coursework's academic
goals through experiential processes involving a government or nonprofit or
small business in their local community. Come learn about the service-learning
possibilities and how to build effective and efficient partnerships for any
accounting course you may offer in your program.
13.
Using Industry Training Programs to
Complement Managerial Accounting Coverage
Presenter: Ali M. Sedaghat, Loyola College, Maryland
Description: Business faculty
have vigorously pursued various approaches to make their topic relevant to
business practices. The best place to test the relevance is observing industry
practice. We are offering an easy and workable approach to achieve this
objective.
14.
Lessons Learned from Service-Learning
Projects in an AIS Capstone Course
Presenters: Zafar U. Khan, Eastern Michigan University
Michelle M. Haroon, KPMG, LLP
Ru Knoedler
Description: Experienced
faculty and students discuss service learning lessons learned from many
accounting information systems projects. Complete information about service
learning benefits to students, universities, and organizations; how to plan and
implement service learning in your course(s) will be presented.
15.
Workplace Learning-Curriculum Necessity or
Optional Extra? A New Zealand Exemplar
Presenters: Ross Stewart, Seattle Pacific University
Anil Narayan, Auckland University of Technology
Ron Feasey, Auckland University of Technology
Description: This poster
session will demonstrate how a New Zealand University has incorporated
workplace learning into their accounting curriculum. This is an educational
strategy that relates theory to practice, is student-focused around the
development of metacognitive skills, and acknowledges accounting as a practice
discipline.
16.
High-Level Service Learning for Graduate
Tax Programs
Presenters: Mark R. Nixon, Bentley College
William Wiggins, Bentley College
Description: Congress has
provided up to $100,000 per year to support Low-Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITC)
at schools that have a graduate taxation program. An LITC is the finest
service-learning opportunity available for graduate taxation students. Learn
from our four years of experience operating an LITC at Bentley College.
17.
Discovering Accounting Research
Presenter: Gary Entwistle, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Ever wondered
how to bring academic accounting research into the classroom? How you might
convince students of the relevance of research to their professional careers?
How to spark a student's interest and curiosity about an academic career? Come
find out!
18.
A System Documentation and Internal
Control Assessment Exercise Using Instructor Role Playing
Presenter: James J. McKinney, Howard University
Description: This is an
exercise that involves instructor role playing and a hypothetical accounting
system to teach system documentation and internal control assessment. With
minimal instructor preparation, the exercise can be useful in demonstrating
ambiguity and confusion that occurs in practice.
19.
Implementing Role Playing in Accounting
Courses
Presenter: Diane Janvrin, Iowa State University
Description: This session is
designed to provide practical information for those interested in incorporating
role playing in the classroom. Implementation tips, role-playing cases,
resources, and suitable accounting topics for role playing will be on display.
Com and learn more about this innovative and effective teaching
strategy.
20.
Managerial and AIS: Bridging the Gap
Presenter: Stacy E. Kovar, Kansas State University
Description: Cross-functional
integration and the use of information systems across the curriculum are goals
of many accounting programs. This session will give you ideas for integrating
managerial accounting and accounting information systems content to help
students see firsthand the richness of modern information systems.
21.
Increasing Accounting Majors with the
Business Planning Model-An Innovative Approach to Introductory Management
Accounting
Presenters: Noah P. Barsky, Villanova University
Anthony Catanach, Jr., Villanova University
Description: Learn about an
innovative approach to delivering introductory management accounting. The
Business Planning Model integrates business strategy and risk topics with
traditional content through a semester-long business planning simulation.
Assessment results indicate that this new teaching approach can actually
increase accounting enrollments.
22. Using
Accounting Information to Support a Business Position
Presenter: Gary Siegel, DePaul University
Description: Looking for a
learning strategy to build a strong understanding of accounting concepts, and
at the same time enable students to work in teams, build persuasive
communication skills, and have students link assignment material with the real
world? Come to this session to find out.
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An Integrated and Comprehensive
Cost/Managerial Accounting Case
Presenters: M. A. Sangeladji, California State University, Northridge
R. Kiani, California State University, Northridge
Description: Let us teach our
students to think, discover logical relationships, and build
integrated decision models rather than to memorize formulas and
plug in numbers.
25.
Pursuing Technology and Skill-Building
Objectives: Articulating Cost Management Course Redesign with Evolving Program
Objectives
Presenters: Donald E. Wygal, Rider University
Margaret O'Reilly-Allen, Rider University
M. Elizabeth Haywood, Rider University
Description: This
presentation centers around faculty/department chair collaborative efforts to
enhance technology applications and skill building in accounting coursework.
Emphasis is placed upon how planning and assessment can facilitate both
improved course delivery and broader program objectives.
26.
Computer Projects for Cost/Managerial
Accounting
Presenter: Dennis Togo, University of New Mexico
Description: Student learning
benefits when purposes for integrating technology are: (1) to develop a
controller's perspective, and (2) to generate information for management
decisions. Successful spreadsheet projects are shared for profit planning,
stochastic risk analysis, curvilinear data analysis, and optimization using
binary/linear programming.
27.
Teaching Various Topics in Tax I and Tax
II Using Self-Generated Elaborations
Presenters: Lloyd G. Sage, Governors State University
Judith A. Sage, Chicago State University
Description: A self-generated
elaboration project was investigated in which the students actively
participated in the learning process in Tax I and Tax II. Short-term and
long-term effects and student perceptions of the elaborations, textbook
reading, and textbook examples were examined.
28.
Tax Software versus Paper Return: The
Effect of Computer Attitudes on Mental Effort, Self-Efficacy, Attributions, and
Learning
Presenter: Rebekah A. Sheely, Emporia State University
Description: Does the use of
software in the tax-return-preparation process hinder learning of tax concepts?
Students preparing paper returns exerted more mental effort than those students
using tax software. The additional effort did not lead to increased learning.
Why?
29.
Implementing Visual and Pictorial
Representations in Teaching Undergraduate Tax Classes
Presenter: Nell Adkins, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Description: A picture is
worth a thousand words! Should you incorporate more visual representations into
your lectures and notes? Learn how to help your students understand tax law
through the use of flow charts, graphs, charts, and tables that complement the
textbook's words and formulae.
30.
Managing Curriculum Change Successfully: A
Process-Focused Approach
Presenters: Anthony H. Catanach, Jr., Villanova University
Noah P. Barsky, Villanova University
Description: This session is
a practical primer that presents the tools needed to successfully execute
curriculum change. Topics include: program risk assessment, educational process
reengineering, specific guidance on new course implementation, and suggestions
on evaluating new program success.
31.
Advancing Curriculum Change in
Technology
Presenters: Philip Reckers, Arizona State University
Bart Hartman, St. Joseph University
Brian Reckers, KPMG
Description: Don't make the
same mistakes others have made in trying and failing to effectively achieve a
competitive advantage by incorporating technology in your curriculum. Learn how
to overcome major impediments and integrate technology meaningfully in your
program at almost no cost. Take advantage of new vendor initiatives and the
collective efforts of other faculties … even if you don't have AIS
faculty.
32.
Using the Study of International
Accounting as the Capstone Course for a Major in Professional Accountancy
Presenter: Sid R. Ewer, Southwest Missouri State University
Description: This poster
session will synopsize the abundant literature on accounting education's
deficiencies, examine the AICPA's Core Competency Framework, and show how a
capstone course in International Accounting can address those issues and serve
to reinforce student learning in accounting issues.
33.
A New Design for the First Accounting
Course
Presenter: Ronald J. Huefner, SUNY at Buffalo
Description: Reconsider the
structure of the first accounting course! This course-successfully offered for
four years-is built around the various "measurement models" used in
accounting. Students learn what they are, when and how they are used, their
advantages and disadvantages.
