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An International Meeting of American Accounting
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Effective Learning Strategies II
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 — 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
- Improve Student Writing Through Peer Review
Presenter: Debra Kerby, Truman State University
Description: Writing improves with revision. See how a structured peer review process that focuses on competencies such as organization, depth of content, audience awareness, clarity, and mechanics can improve student thinking and writing. - Instructional Strategies in Managerial Accounting: Understanding Equivalent Unit of Production [Canceled]
Presenter: Cynthia Bolt, The Citadel
Description: This demonstration illustrates how student involvement in the manufacture of sandwiches will visually illustrate the process costing system, manufacturing concepts, and calculations of equivalent units while students learn hands-on as volunteers in a team session. - WebCT Tools That Make a Real Difference in Accounting Education
Presenters: Noah P. Barsky, Villanova University; Anthony H. Catanach, Jr., Villanova University
Description: Learn how to use WebCT tools to reduce cheating on exams and quizzes. This session provides detailed guidance on data set formatting and test creation to allow instructors to construct different tests for each student, while controlling for content, difficulty, and variety of other factors. - Designing and Teaching Capstone Courses
Presenters: Zafar Khan, Eastern Michigan University; Gary McCombs, Eastern Michigan University; Mohsen Sharifi, California State University Fullerton
Description: For instructors and administrators interested in assessing their accounting programs, the Designing and Teaching Capstone Courses presentation is a must. The poster presentation details the ABC's of capstone courses. Discuss complete information with experienced presenters. - Professional Development Activities for Graduating Accounting Students
Presenters: Tracy S. Manly, University of Tulsa; Constance A. McKnight, Arkansas Tech University
Description: Learn the organization and benefits of seminars and activities geared toward assisting students with their job interviews. The presenters will discuss a variety of semester activities as well as focus on different strategies for universities in small and large cities. - Fraud Examination: Auditing in New Dimensions
Presenter: Gail Wright, Albright College
Description: Do you need fraud in your curriculum, but are unable to add a new course? Consider modifying your traditional auditing course with current professional resources, classic fraud cases, and a practical audit project. Join an interactive sharing of cases, scenarios, and exercises that engage our students in understanding fraud and the audit process. - Teaching Accounting to Busy Executives: A Hybrid Approach
Presenter: Julia Grant, Case Western Reserve University
Description: Considering a hybrid distance-residency curriculum? Lessons learned in using this approach with executive M.B.A.s include modularization ideas and effective technology tools, as well as a clearer understanding of the faculty costs incurred. - Building XBRL Instance Documents Using a Shell
Presenter: Skip White, University of Delaware
Description: Building XBRL Instance Documents Using a Shell is designed to introduce the basic structure of XBRL reports and demistify the representation of accounting and contextual information in XBRL instance documents. - Expenditure and Revenue Cycle Simulation
Presenter: Jan Taylor Morris, University of San Diego
Description: Learn to develop an interactive role playing exercise to teach the expenditure and revenue cycles. Students act out various functions of both cycles, such as ordering, AP, shipping, and AR, providing hands-on knowledge and understanding of journals, ledgers, and process work flow. - A Primer of Modern Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
Presenters: Zabihollah Rezaee, University of Memphis; Lynn Turner, Glass Lewis & Company
Description: Accounting students should learn corporate governance and ethics education, and accounting programs should incorporate such education in their curriculum in response to the emerging corporate governance reforms. This session will provide valuable ways to incorporate corporate governance and business ethics into the accounting curriculum. - Use Journal of Accountancy Technology Workshop Articles to Teach Advanced Excel® Skills—For Free
Presenter: Kevin Kimball, Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Description: Come and learn how to use the Journal of Accountancy to invigorate your teaching of advanced Excel skills as well as fundamental financial and managerial accounting concepts. - Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Accounting to Non-Accounting Majors
Presenter: Mawdudur Rahman, Suffolk University Boston
Description: Learn how to teach accounting to non-accouting majors successfully and improve students' learning and instructor's evaluation. - Effective and Efficient Use of Computerized Testing in Course Management Systems
Presenters: Bonnie Klamm, North Dakota State University; Joann Segovia, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Description: Course management systems provide a venue for computerized testing to assess student learning efficiently and effectively, address different learning styles, and prepare students with computer experience. Hear our anecdotal comments. View videos demonstrating example questions. Learn about controls and policies. - Using Timed Cases in the Undergraduate AIS Lab: Improving Students' Effectiveness and Efficiency
Presenter: Jennifer Mueller, Auburn University
Description: "I wish I could determine whether my undergraduate AIS student absentmindedly worked through the homework tutorial or actually learned that software tool/skill." You can! The session will illustrate how to use a series of timed drills for AIS lab topics. - A Ph.D. Course in International Accounting and Taxation: Integrating Strategic Management
Presenters: Gary Braun, The University of Texas at El Paso; Patricia Eason, The University of Texas at El Paso
Description: This unique doctoral seminar in international accounting and taxation is part of UT El Paso's International Business Ph.D. One novel aspect of the seminar is the potential for development of research issues at the frontier of accounting and international strategy. - Presenting Accounting Cases on CDs—A More User-Friendly and Interesting Delivery Tool
Presenter: Richard Fern, Eastern Kentucky University
Description: Come to this session to learn about an alternative to the traditional text-based delivery system for case studies. Participants will see the case study "Getting Started in the Thoroughbred Horse Industry: A Review of Some Basic Accounting Principles" and learn some of the challenges of putting it on a CD. - A Boot Camp Experience for New-to-Accounting Students: Enhancing Interest in the Accounting Discipline
Presenter: Peter Robinson, The University of Western Australia
Description: Interested in enhancing the value of accounting to those who are learning it for the first time? If so, attend Peter's presentation of the Financial Accounting Boot Camp. It was a dynamic way of introducing key accounting concepts and in developing the interest of those new-to-accounting students in the discipline. - Incorporating the Case Study Method into the Intermediate Accounting Courses: Techniques for Successfully Guiding and Integrating Active Learning
Presenters: Philip Brown, Harding University; Robert J. Churchman, Harding University
Description: We'll address tips/techniques about using case studies in accounting including finding time for cases; common facilitator errors and interventions; dealing with student participant issues; and suggestions for facilitating. Attendees encouraged to share; we'll compile ideas, then email to all participants. - Teaching Auditing: Helping Students Understand the "A" Words
Presenters: Jack R. Ethridge, Stephen F. Austin State University; Violet Rogers, Stephen F. Austin State University; Aileen Smith, Stephen F. Austin State University
Description: Once a student understands the "A" words teaching auditing is easy. Both, a cycle and balance sheet example illustrate how the authors integrate the account/cycle, assertions, standards, risk, appropriate audit steps, related ethical considerations, and eventual reporting. - Improving Accounting Ethics Education through Comparative Historical Analysis
Presenters: Jane Finley, Belmont University; Marilyn Young, Belmont University
Description: This session's topic is an assignment that challenges students to develop an historical context for recent accounting fraud cases. Students identify common themes among multiple fraud cases and gain insight into factors that create the conditions for fraud to occur. - Accounting Football … A New Sport!
Presenters: Cheryl Prachyl, The University of Texas at Arlington; Mike Ruble, Central Washington University; Carol Sullivan, Carol Sullivan, CPA
Description: In this session, we'll play an Accounting Football game as a fun way to learn accounting concepts as well as introduce spectator-based competition into the classroom. Experience the joy of triumphs when correct answers score touchdowns. - Using an Online Homework System in Financial Accounting Courses
Presenters: Yan Bao, Frostburg State University; Chuo-Hsuan Lee, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Description: Financial accounting courses require students to practice repetitively to acquire the knowledge. How can you make this happen when you have limited availability to provide instant feedback to guide their studies? Have them use an online homework system! - Using a Hands-On Learning Experience to Teach Basic Cost Accounting Concepts
Presenter: Barbara Vinciguerra, Moravian College
Description: Are you looking for a fun way to introduce cost accounting concepts in your introductory course? This hands-on learning experience uses a simple manufacturing system, making paper chains, to use as a backdrop for explaining basic cost concepts and systems. - Research in Accounting: An Undergraduate Focus
Presenter: Barbara Parrish, University of Central Oklahoma
Description: This session provides ideas and experience from a research course for undergraduate students to improve their research and writing skills. Success in their careers depends on these abilities! - Teaching Students to Use a Financial Calculator by Integrating an Emulator with Power Point® Slides
Presenter: Lynn Thomas, Kansas State University
Description: Want to teach the use of a financial calculator without a big investment of time and money? Learn how to acquire an emulator that plugs into your USB port and overlay it over instructional PowerPoint slides (also free). - Developing Prospective Financial Statements
Presenters: Stevan Olson, Missouri State Unversity
Description: Students have testified that preparing prospective financial statements starting from assumptions has given them insight into the relationship of the statements and the usefulness of analytical ratios. Additionally, spreadsheet skills were improved. Students had a gratifying sense of accomplishment. - Toward a More Effective Classroom Environment through Online Presentation of Technical Content
Presenters: Robert Braun, Southeastern Louisiana University; Harold E. Davis, Southeastern Louisiana University
Description: The challenge: develop students' presentation, written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills without sacrificing content while covering ethics in a meaningful way. The solution: Shift routine, technical content online to focus on application, analysis, and synthesis in an active-learning classroom environment. - Using Teams to Role Play and Videotape the Results of a Comprehensive Governmental Accounting Case to Enhance Learning
Presenters: Ray Elson, Valdosta State University; Susanne O'Callaghan, Pace University; John Walker, Queens College–CUNY
Description: Transform the graduate comprehensive government case from a preparer focus to a user focus using role play and videotaping. - An Integral Data Design of Accounting Information Systems
Presenter: Jia - Lang Seng, National Chengchi University
Description: In this paper, we present an integral design of data resources for the financial and accounting information systems. The integration is based on the common schema development and transformation. - Using an Active Learning Project to Enhance Student Learning in a Cost/Managerial Accounting Course
Presenter: Sharon Bell, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Description: This session will showcase a project appropriate for a cost/managerial accounting course. The project requires students to create a product, construct a prototype, develop a unit cost, and a pro-forma Income Statement. Examples of student projects will be on display. - Teaching Accounting Online: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
Presenter: Richard Rand, Tennessee Technological University
Description: Many faculty are still hesitant to venture into the world of online accounting instruction. Concerns such as time allocation, lack of face-to-face contact, online cheating, and technological challenges will be addressed. Reasonable, easy to implement solutions will be offered.