CPE SESSION 19: SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Teaching Case-Driven Undergraduate Management Accounting Courses
[Cancelled]

Description/Objectives:
This workshop will provide an overview of two case-driven nonintroductory undergraduate management accounting courses that have been taught by the facilitator since 1997. The first of these courses focuses on product, customer, and service pricing and mix decision making. The second course focuses upon process performance management. The workshop will also introduce participants to numerous case studies and supplemental readings that can be used to teach each course. In addition, the workshop will highlight selected case studies to illustrate how they can be taught to undergraduate students. Finally, the workshop 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, the workshop will be interactive in the sense that participants will be encouraged to ask questions. The facilitator may also use video segments to provide actual illustrations of the different methods that he uses to teach case studies to students. Finally, and most importantly, participants will leave with specific insights regarding how to design and teach case-driven undergraduate 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 undergraduate curriculum.

Presenter:
Peter C. Brewer, Miami University

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