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An International Meeting of 2005 Annual MeetingAugust 7–10, 2005
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Effective Learning Strategies Forum — Wednesday Sessions
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Session 1
Blending Monopoly and Legos into Managerial AccountingPresenter:
Neal Hannon, University of HartfordDescription:
The participants in this session will learn how to incorporate basic concepts of managerial accounting into a semester-long interactive group project. Student teams compete using Monopoly and Legos while creating documentation that reinforces basic managerial accounting concepts.Session 2
"The Personal Schedule": Allowing Student Flexibility in LearningPresenter:
Margaret Shackell-Dowell, University of Notre DameDescription:
Want your students to care more about what they're learning? Want your students to really invest in their projects and assignments? Try a personal schedule. Try letting them pick assignments and due dates. It has worked for me!Session 3
The Blanco Café, Managerial Teaching StrategyPresenters:
Dennis Elam, Texas State University, San Antonio
Robert Severance, Texas State UniversityDescription:
Students relate to the real-world environment of restaurants building budgets and calculating break even and target profit for each restaurant. Conclusions run from mild to wild as they are forced to defend conclusions.Presenter:
Robert R. Oliva, University of Arkansas at Little RockDescription:
Participants will have access to:
- Suggested syllabus;
- Discussion points on IRAC methodology;
- A universal fact pattern raising taxpayers and preparers' penalties and ethical issues;
- IRAC-based tax memoranda addressing issues raised in universal fact pattern.
Session 5
Strategies to Serve Struggling StudentsPresenter:
Robert Allen, University of UtahDescription:
Have you ever felt helpless to influence some students' lack of performance? This session focuses on strategies for helping students who are struggling. A little effort on your part can make a huge difference to student attitudes and performance. Drop by the session and we can discuss how.Session 6
How to Integrate Management Control Issues with the External Contracting ContextPresenter:
Neale O'Connor, City University of Hong KongDescription:
Participants will learn a new technique for describing management control issues in a broader external contracting context (e.g., strategic alliances and joint ventures), thus giving greater context to aid in teaching of management control problems. A handout and PowerPoint??on CD will be provided.Session 7
Exploring the Implications of Wireless Technologies on Accounting EducationPresenter:
Andrew Lymer, University of BirminghamDescription:
The next generation of computing equipment will release the user from the constraints of wires. Will this change the role of technology in the learning process? This session reports on a yearlong experiment to explore this impact in the context of accounting education.Session 8
Integrating a Client-Service Quality Experience into an Accounting CoursePresenter:
Christie W. Johnson, Montana State University–BozemanDescription:
The profession encourages developing student competencies in client service. Integrate this assignment in your accounting course so students may learn the "business of accounting" through selected readings on professional service quality concepts and an interview with a professional service provider.Session 9
Service Learning and Fraud PreventionPresenter:
Martha S. Doran, San Diego State UniversityDescription:
Learn how to:
- Combine service learning and fraud awareness;
- Help your students "consult" with other business classes; and
- Increase your students' skills at providing accounting (fraud) knowledge and at serving the public interest, and better define their professional values.
Session 10
E-Portfolios in Support of Deep Learning through Timely Feedback and ReflectionPresenters:
Graeme William Dean, The University of Sydney
Cameron EsslemontDescription:
A student-centric e-portfolio model supporting scholarship through deep learning, lifelong learning through reflection and self assessment and global-citizenship through participation, is that possible? Not without considerable effort by the teacher. Join us and take the first step on your journey.Session 11
Partnering with the Profession – A Continuous Learning ModelPresenter:
Irene Wiecek, University of Toronto at MississaugaDescription:
Accounting education is a continuum. The university/college environment is but a small part of the learning. This session will look at a model for continuous learning which involves partnering with the profession to maximize synergies.Presenters:
Robert J. Kollar, Duquesne University
Sharon Green, Duquesne University
Valerie C. Williams, Duquesne UniversityDescription:
Have you received PwC's Auditing Alchemy case study materials, but aren't quite sure how to effectively use them in your Auditing classes? In our session, we describe our semester-long project and share the results of our assessments of student learning.Session 13
Motivating Students in Introductory Accounting through Formal Feedback Activities Generated by WebCTPresenters:
Samir Trabelsi, Brock University
Sandra Felton, Brock UniversityDescription:
We show how instructors can use tracking data generated through an online course management system to motivate class effort. Formal feedback on student "hits" provides for timely instructor intervention and alerts students to their shortcomings and consequences of their behavior.Session 14
Teaching Students How to Find and Use Their Own Cognitive Styles to Help Build More Effective TeamsPresenter:
John Karayan, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaDescription:
Faculty will be shown how to help students build better teams by using the author's Web site at www.csupomona.edu/~jekarayan/brain/brain to self-assess their cognitive styles. For more information, see the papers and Web-streamed video at http://www.csupomona.edu/~jekarayan/learning.Session 15
Business–Student Partnership: Linking Accounting Information Systems, Internal Control, and AuditingPresenter:
Claire Kamm Latham, Washington State UniversityDescription:
This session presents an active, collaborative learning experience with business entities that is well integrated with learning outcomes in undergraduate accounting curricula. Students gain confidence documenting and assessing accounting processes, applying audit concepts, and identifying and communicating internal control strengths and weaknesses.Session 16
The Education of the Accounting Professional: Pulling It All TogetherPresenters:
David E. Tinius, Seattle University
Susan Weihrich, Seattle UniversityDescription:
Want your accounting students a bit more business-smart before they hit the streets?Help them integrate their business and accounting knowledge. Get them to expect to play a role on the management team. Improve their chances for professional success.
Session 17
FRP: A Fun, Rewarding, and Profitable ProjectPresenters:
Ann Galligan Kelley, Providence College
Margaret Ruggieri, Providence CollegeDescription:
Are you still hunting for that perfect project for Introductory Accounting? A project that students can do all semester in groups? This session demonstrates a unique Financial Reporting project incorporating current events, technology, and real-world business applications.Session 18
Integrating the Curriculum to Meet Professional Challenges in the 21st CenturyPresenter:
Gail E. Wright, Albright CollegeDescription:
Need to add the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and effective research and business topics to an already filled curriculum or class? Need to motivate students to integrate real-world organizational visions and strategies with traditional accounting material? Come explore new course and comprehensive project options you can easily implement next semester.Session 19
Teaching Accruals and Deferrals Using the REA Database ModelPresenter:
Barbara Ross, Eastern Michigan UniversityDescription:
Do your students in introductory financial accounting struggle with accruals and deferrals? Let the systems approach help. The REA model is built on timing differences and can be easily employed to show students how accruals and deferrals are just a matter of timing differences.Session 20
How to Create an Interactive Quiz in Excel?Presenters:
Jim Connell, University of Montevallo
Elizabeth Mulig, University of South Florida, St. PetersburgDescription:
This session will explain how to create a self-scoring, interactive quiz using Excel. This allows students to practice answering questions without being connected to the internet. Explanatory handouts and a web link to download a sample quiz will be provided.Session 21
Flash Video Production and Distribution Techniques for Accounting Education
This Session has been CANCELEDPresenter:
Richard A. Johnson, Frostburg State University
Joyce M. Middleton, Frostburg State UniversityDescription:
Creating and deploying accounting education Flash videos—techniques for mere mortals. This session focuses on recommended software and settings for an effective and efficient "thought to finish" approach. Sample videos illustrate techniques to avoid a student's "death by video."Session 22
"Audit Failure" Project for Use in an Undergraduate or Graduate Auditing ClassPresenter:
Rebecca L. Rosner, Long Island University C.W. Post CampusDescription:
Interested in assigning an audit project students will enjoy? Students examine and analyze an actual audit failure relative to GAAP/GAAS concepts they have previously studied and gain familiarity with fraudulent financial reporting and the auditor's failure to detect it.Presenters:
Rose Marie Martin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Hassan Hefzi, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaDescription:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act's increased emphasis on the evaluation of internal control requires auditors to diagram business processes and procedures. We can enhance the student learning of these techniques by incorporating student-thinking styles into our development of this curriculum.Session 24
Hooking Your Executive AudiencePresenters:
Esperanza Huerta, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico Francisco Villanueva, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de MexicoDescription:
This session will show you how to stimulate the interest of your students presenting them real-life hooks. Participants will learn what are "hooks," how to manage them, and how to use them in class to boost the interest in a topic.Session 25
Communication Skills for Discovery of Cooked Books Post-SOXPresenter:
Elisabeth Rossen, University of OsloDescription:
A session for accountants to learn how to maintain their integrity and communicate effectively when finding them involved in client assignments with likely fraudulent activities. You will leave here with communication skills, which are self-defense skills for compliance with SOX.Session 26
What Needs to Be Considered When You Teach Accounting Courses OnlinePresenter:
Yong G. Lee, University of Houston–VictoriaDescription:
Have you been struggling teaching your accounting classes online? Or are you planning to teach online courses? This session will help both of you learn more about online students and develop effective teaching/learning strategies in online classes.Session 27
Internet Resources for Financial and Managerial AccountingPresenters:
Edmund Fenton, Eastern Kentucky University
Jessica Frazier, Eastern Kentucky UniversityDescription:
Within days have your students knowing where to find and how to use the SEC website with its 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and Form 4s. Also, have them locate companies' websites that offer views of operations that complement the production accounting processes.Session 28
Re-Connecting Students of Taxation with the Internal Revenue CodePresenters:
Brigitte W. Muehlmann, Bentley College
Roland Hubscher, Bentley College
Mamiko Ono, Monitor GroupDescription:
Come and see how the concept of documentation for a computer program assists students of taxation to reconnect with the Internal Revenue Code by learning to see its role and contents in a new light.Session 29
KISSES: Keep-It-Simple Standards Equal SuccessPresenter:
Susan V. Crosson, Santa Fe Community CollegeDescription:
Business and accounting literacy are both possible through the integration of accounting software such as Microsoft Business Solutions—Great Plains into the business curricula—especially into the required accounting courses. But how to begin? Try keeping it simple. This effective learning session will demonstrate how to apply the basic business practices of MBS-Great Plains to actively engage students in starting and running a service business.Session 30
Learning Communities-Creating Positive Outcomes for StudentsPresenter:
Marie Kavanagh, The University of QueenslandDescription:
This session will illustrate how a multi level approach has been used to create and maintain a networked community of learners who support one another through peer learning/mentoring in a large undergraduate accounting class.