1.
XML and XBRL Cases and Techniques
Presenter: Clinton (Skip) White, University of Delaware
Description: XML and XBRL
cases and techniques in the accounting curriculum.
2.
Using a Real Company as an Exemplar in
Your Courses
Presenters: Bill Cummings, Northern Illinois University
Sally Webber, Northern Illinois University
Description: Have you ever
wondered how to introduce your students to the "real world" of
company accounting practices? Come see how the faculty at Northern Illinois
University collaborated with Caterpillar Inc. to develop classroom materials
based upon documentation from Caterpillar's systems.
3.
Tech Bottling Company: An Integrated
Case
Presenter: William C. St. John, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Description: Tech Bottling
Company is an innovative case that allows students to work on a common
realistic project across four required sophomore management classes. Come learn
how you can replicate this groundbreaking teaching method in your own
classroom. Handouts will be provided.
4.
Accounting for DUI (Driving Under the
Influence)
Presenters: Carol Sullivan, Lamar University Gisele Moss, Lamar
University
Description: This session is
in honor of Terah Hardin, a Lamar Accounting student, who was recently killed
by a drunk driver. Attendees will learn about the cost of DUI and teaching
strategies related to "Accounting for DUI." "Safety Pays"
is the overall theme.
5.
10 Ten-Minute Exercises to Develop Your
Students' Team Skills
Presenter: Kate Lancaster, California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis
Obispo
Description: Do you use teams
in your classes? Have any of the teams had a member who wouldn't participate or
who wanted to dominate? Attend this session to learn of steps to take to
improve the effectiveness/satisfaction of student teams.
6.
Improving Course Ratings through
Motivating Students
Presenter: Carol Shook, University of Arkansas
Description: Would you like
to increase your student-evaluation ratings and interest in your class? The key
is the ability to motivate students. This session will provide specific tips on
motivation, participation, and how to handle de-motivators in the
classroom.
7.
Breathing Life into the Required M.B.A.
Management Accounting Course Using the Textbook Novel, Code Blue
Presenters: Luann J. Lynch, University of Virginia
E. Richard Brownlee II, University of Virginia
Description: Want to
resuscitate your M.B.A. Management Accounting course? We suggest an innovative
approach, based on the textbook novel, Code Blue, to framing your course
as one that considers the role that cost accounting systems play in strategic
thinking and strategy implementation.
8.
Fluency Training as a Pedagogical Tool to
Improve Performance of Undergraduate Students Enrolled in the First Financial
Accounting Course
Presenter: William E. Huffman, Missouri Southern State College
Description: Fluency training
equips the professor with an instructional tool that can improve student
performance. Fluency training also makes differences in social, economic,
cultural, and ethnic background less disparate and provides every student an
improved chance of success.
9.
Use of a Teaching Case to Assess Reading
and Writing Competencies in Accounting
Presenter: Mike Geary, University of Dayton
Description: We all must
assess learning outcomes. See a novel and interesting approach to making these
assessments. Learn how one university uses a teaching case to assess students'
reading and writing competencies. Learn how you can use this approach.
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11.
Can We Discuss Ethics Honestly?
Presenter: Gwendolen B. White, Ball State University
Description: Can we discuss
ethics honestly? My poster session will present a method of getting anonymous
answers to sensitive ethical questions. Technology allows us to gather
responses quickly and provide immediate feedback to the group. What does the
group really think?
12.
Measuring and Affecting Accounting
Students' Ethical and Professional Perceptions of Earning Management
Presenters: Jeffrey J. McMillan, Clemson University
Daryl Guffey, Clemson University
Description: A program
educators can use/adapt to measure and shape their students' understanding of
earnings management will be covered. A description outlining how the
educational materials were tested as well as listing of selected
readings/questions and survey instruments are provided.
13. Film and
Movie Analysis in the Accounting Classroom: Helping
Students Better Understand Why People Commit Fraud
and Dishonest Acts
Presenter: Edwin Mah, Providence College
Description: Movies entertain
us and help us understand what it means to be human-and fallible. Analyzing
movies in the classroom can be an effective and fun way for accounting students
to better understand why people commit fraud and dishonest acts.
14.
Occupational Fraud: Crossing the Line to
Due Diligence
Presenter: Nazik Roufaiel, Cornell University
Description: Come join an
interactive session to fight fraud with fraud-awareness techniques and access
materials available to enhance your learning and teaching of occupational
fraud. Attendees will be provided with a comprehensive list of resources and a
model of course syllabus with PowerPoint® slides.
15.
Looking for Revenue in All the Wrong
Places: An Analysis of Recent Revenue Recognition
Presenters: M. Elizabeth Haywood, Rider University
Dorothy A. McMullen, Rider University
Description: Cooking the
books using revenue as a main ingredient seems to be a way of life for
Corporate America. The purpose of this paper is to give students (future
auditors) a taste of recent revenue recognition problems. Various teaching
methods, including bingo and jeopardy games, are discussed to present this
spicy topic.
16.
Space Center Souvenirs—A Case
concerning Ethical Decision Making
Presenter: Leslee Higgins, Georgia Southern University
Kathleen H. Gruben, Georgia Southern University
Description: Learn how to
present an exciting session based on current events where students make
business decisions in an ethical and compassionate manner following a national
disaster.
17.
Creating a "Modern Corporate
Reporting Class"
Presenter: Sudha K. Krishnan, Loyola Marymount University
Description: If you want to
convert part of your class with current topical material and bring in the
latest accounting issues into your classroom during the semester as it happens,
attend this session. I will show you how I succeed in doing so.
18.
Using Blackboard to Facilitate Guest
Speakers
Presenter: Charles E. Davis, Baylor University
Description: Having trouble
finding guest speakers who can commit time to travel to campus to speak in your
class? Come see how one professor uses Blackboard and online chats to reduce
the time commitment and logistical constraints for speakers.
19.
Developing Accounting Jeopardy Games Using
Microsoft® PowerPoint
Presenter: Michael A. Seda
Description: Focus of session
is to demonstrate how key concepts in Accounting can be reviewed with students
in a "fun" Jeopardy Game Environment. Participants will learn how to
create Jeopardy PowerPoint templates for their classes by reviewing samples
covering entire Accounting Curriculum. For preview, please visit my website
http://www.geocities.com/docseds.
20.
Learning Accounting with
Excel®-Based Jeopardy
Presenter: Elizabeth A. Murphy, DePaul University
Description: Are you interested
in introducing topics (e.g., debit/credit system
or governmental accounting terminology) in a fun,
engaging way to your students? See how students
can use Excel-based Accounting Jeopardy in
class, outside class, and for group projects.
21.
Blending Technology into Accounting
Presenter: Carol Yacht, author; software consultant
Description: ASPs allow
students to use web bases' integrated systems and fast-changing technologies
that businesses use without the upfront software installation costs. Students
log on to the Internet to use the software. There are no computer lab network
hassles.
22.
The Sky Is the Limit, Inc. (Tips and
Techniques for Teaching AIS)
Presenter: Rabih Zeidan, University of Houston
Description: In addition to
conceptual understating of accounting information systems (AIS), accountants
have to acquire skills and practical experiences required by employers. The Sky
is the Limit, Inc. is one attempt at integrating accounting systems,
technology, and business operations concepts.
23.
How to Stimulate Learning in Large
Classes
Presenters: Joann R. Segovia, Minnesota State University
Karla Jensen, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Description: How do
instructors become outstanding in delivering material to large classes?
Techniques are provided to enhance teaching effectiveness and learning
through:
- Classroom rules and
regulations
- Classroom environment
- Variety in teaching
techniques
- Instructor commitment and
availability
24.
Corporate Security Issues in the
Information Age
Presenter: Amy W. Ray, Bentley College
Description: Participants in
this session will learn about new information security risks resulting from
information sharing networks that extend beyond organizational boundaries to
trading partners as well as telecommuters. Scholarship opportunities for
auditing, managerial accounting, and information systems faculty are
discussed.
25.
Coming to America: The Case of ICICI
Bank
Presenter: Niranjan Chipalkatti, Ohio Northern University
Description: International
accounting books omit details regarding ADR programs and international bank
transparency-related issues. This case bridges this gap and provides an
exciting stock market context that students can handle to assess the
information content of the Form 20F requirements.
26.
Global Mergers and Acquisitions: An
Integrated Approach
Presenter: Philip D. Drake, American Graduate School of International
Management, Thunderbird
Description: Learn about
Thunderbird's most popular course—Global Mergers & Acquisitions: An
Integrated Approach. With a team of ten faculty, all disciplines associated
with a M&A transaction are presented. The course culminates in a week-long
student role-play two-stage negotiation case study.
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28.
Introductory Accounting Class, a Blended
Course
Presenter: Kay Guess, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: Come learn how
to make an online class a true learning experience for your students. You will
learn how to start and complete the design of an online class. Learn what to
do, what not to do, what works for graduate M.B.A. students, and what does not.
You will see the finished product. This may be where education is going in the
future, so start now and learn how it has worked.
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30.
Using Online Exercises to Prepare Students
for the New CPA Exam
Presenter: Judy Ramage, Christian Brothers University
Description: Worried your
students won't be prepared for the new CPA exam? This session discusses the
format of the new exam, identifies how students must work the new online
simulations, and demonstrates how you can incorporate this into your accounting
courses.
31.
Making Online Assessment Work for Students
in an Entry-Level Accounting Course
Presenter: Sally Aisbitt, The Open University Business School
Description: This poster
session will share the lessons learned in the Open University Business School
to contribute to the body of knowledge of this development in teaching,
learning, and assessment.
32.
The Evaluation of e-Learning in a Large
Accounting Class
Presenter: Antoinette Flynn, University of Limerick
Description: This session
explains the practical and pedagogical reasons for introducing e-delivery and
e-learning. I explain my e-platform of choice from a nontechnical perspective.
I then examine the effectiveness of students learning from a quantitative and
qualitative basis; answering the question: Does e-learning work?
33.
Integrative Introductory Course:
Accounting Concepts and Processes
Presenter: Jane Stoneback, Central Connecticut State University
Description: Build a course
that introduces majors to the accounting curricula and profession using
business process analysis, the value chain, and accounting systems as the
integrating vehicle. Through activities, students create their own
understanding of the accounting cycle and the profession.
34.
So, No Class Each Week!
Presenter: Albie Brooks, Victoria University
Description: If you want
something that combines management accounting, information, and Internet
technology, which is innovative in its approach and delivery, and you don't
have to go to class every week, then we have the session for you.
