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Effective Learning Strategies II
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
3:30 pm-5:00 pm
- A Comparison of Research Databases for Use in Financial Accounting Courses
Presenter: Kathleen Simons, Bryant University
Description: Are you interested in assigning research projects to your upper level Financial Accounting courses? Are you confused about the specifics of adopting one of the several data/infobases available? This forum will discuss the pros and cons of several popular financial accounting databases.
- A Discussion of Student-Led Study Groups in Teaching Introductory Financial Accounting
Presenter: Kenneth Hiltebeitel, Villanova University
Description: Have you ever had a student approach you right before an exam and tell you he needs a tutor—immediately? It might be too late for this exam, but what can you suggest for subsequent exams? Come to this session and explore alternatives.
- A More Relevant Approach for Teaching Accounting Information Systems
Presenter: Edward Walker, McNeese State University
Description: This forum will be of interest to any professor who is interested in providing a rigorous yet practical approach to an accounting systems class while giving students a more holistic approach to the factors affecting an accounting information system.
- A New Pathway for Preparing University Students for the "Real World": Final Year Strategy Capstone Course
Presenters: Gus Geursen, Central Queensland University; Sharon Kemp, Central Queensland University; Beth Tennent, Central Queensland University
Description: The Capstone Course development team present their reflections and valuable lessons on the process of developing such a course - how academics coped with their own "real world" issues of constraints, opportunities and operational complexities.
- Academic Research in Accounting: A Guide for Practitioners (and Practitioners to Be)
Presenter: Jason Porter, University of Idaho
Description: Practicing accountants often describe academic research as dry and useless. This presentation and paper attempt to improve practicing accountants' opinion of academic research by explaining the scientific method and providing hints on how to quickly and easily read the accounting literature.
- Accounting Information System Database Project
Presenter: Richard Newmark, University of Northern Colorado
Description: Students go from REA data-modeling and relational database concepts to creating an actual working accounting system using Access. All instructional materials, solutions, and grading guides will be available.
- Assessing Ethical Education in an Accounting Curriculum?
Presenters: Jo Ann M. Marson, Viterbo University; Denise Probert, Viterbo University
Description: This session will address the need to assess ethics education in an accounting curriculum. The attendee will better understand the value of teaching ethical decision making, approaches to integrating ethics education, and methods of assessing the effectiveness of ethics education.
- Auditing Practice: Using an Actual Audit Performed by Students to Teach Auditing Concepts
Presenter: Frank Beil, University of Minnesota
Description: How to teach auditing using actual company audits to illustrate and examine: Risk Assessement Procedures, Tests of Controls, and Substantive Tests and forming an Opinion on the Financial Statements. As real as it gets.
- Beyond Debits and Credits
Presenters: Sharon C. Gibbs, Roanoke College; Michelle B. Hagadorn, Roanoke College
Description: Looking for new ways to energize your classroom? Join us in moving the learning experience beyond debits and credits to real world application of course content and development of professional skills. Come explore the opportunities available through service learning.
- Blazing the Trail in Accounting Ethics Instruction: Creating AND ASSESSING a Graduate Accounting Ethics Course
Presenters: Dawn W. Massey, Fairfield University; Joan Van Hise, Fairfield University
Description: This session will focus on development of a graduate accounting ethics course as well as a means of assessing it. In addition, the session will also address key challenges in the development process.
- Can't I Do It On My Own? Student Perceptions about Group Assessment
Presenter: Marie Kavanagh, The University of Queensland
Description: This session examines students' experience of group work in a large accounting class. Their perceptions, both negative and positive are highligted in terms of the development of personal skills and attributes and performance outcomes. Emphasis on training and process are highlighted.
- Collaborative Learning using Multi-Media: The Fraud Case Project in Undergraduate Auditing
Presenters: Jack E. Kiger, The University of Tennessee; Ania M. Rose, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Description: While we can create lectures to discuss different types of fraud, there is no better way to learn about fraud than to be involved in one. In this case, a fictional one. Come learn about our fraud video project.
- Commitment to Currency
Presenter: Sandra Fleak, Truman State University
Description: Learn about a project in which students produce a weekly review of current events relevant to financial reporting. The project includes student research, writing, and oral presentations and helps students increase knowledge of financial reporting issues.
- Computerized Learning for Audit Students
Presenter: Karen Van Peursem, University of Waikato
Description: Are you struggling to bring the "experience" of audit into the classroom? Audit judgment? Professional ethics? Practice experience? CAATs in the Classroom is a computer excel package that "looks" like practice but "behaves" like an educator. See how your students can be engaged in audit learning.
- Cost Accounting – Project Oriented – Web Enhanced – Communication Centered
Presenters: Robert Kravet, Fairfield University; Roselie McDevitt, Fairfield University
Description: Cost Accounting – Project Oriented – Web Enhanced – Communication Centered: it's designed to get students "involved" by emulating the accountants' workplace – often client premises. Students meet every other week; and on "off" weeks prepare comprehensive fieldwork assignments aided by a web-based course management system.
- Developing Leaders: The Best Way to Teach Leadership is to Provide Students with Leadership Experience and Feedback
Presenters: Kathleen Ranney Bindon, The University of Alabama; Tracy Smith, Coastal Carolina University
Description: Concerned about developing students' teamwork abilities and leadership skills? In a quandry about how to add a teamwork/leadership component to a class? Our session presents a comprehensive, innovative model for incorporating leadership experience and peer review into the teamwork environment.
- Do Your Students Understand Present Value Concepts?
Presenter: Christie Johnson, Montana State University
Description: Can a student calculate a bond price yet not know the "why?" Examples on bond prices, school loans, and the purchase of an asset with various repayment alternatives, might help your student connect present value calculations with the underlying concepts.
- E-Moderating Case Studies in an Asynchronous On-Line Course: Success and Failures
Presenter: Jay Holmen, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Description: Teaching a purely on-line course is hard, especially when you want to use cases! This session will look at several offerings of a graduate-level course and discuss what worked and, equally important, what didn't work. Suggestions for turning the "failures" into "successes" will be given.
- Easy Way to Internationalize Your Accounting Course
Presenters: Shifei Chung, Rowan University; Ramesh Narasimhan, Montclair State University
Description: The world is waiting—internationalize your accounting course now. No room in your curriculum to add an international accounting course? No need—just add international accounting concepts to your existing accounting course and open the world to your students.
- Engaging Multiple Student Groups in a Single Classroom Setting through the Use of Additional Classroom Resources
Presenter: Michael R. Hammond, Missouri State University
Description: I discuss how I engage students through the use of additional classroom resource items. To enhance student learning, I use stuffed animals, water bottles, newspaper examples, in-class group work, students as teachers and the use of a student response system.
- Enhancing Academic Advising through the Use of the Blackboard Course Management System
Presenter: Kimberly Sipes, Kentucky State University
Description: Looking for a way to communicate and disseminate information more efficiently with your advisees? Let me show you how to quickly and easily set up a Blackboard site for your advisees. Students love it! Resources and handouts available.
- Ethics in the Curriculum: Using Course Embedded Assessment to Evaluate Ethics Assignments
Presenters: Gail Hoover, Rockhurst University; Cheryl McConnell, Rockhurst University
Description: Learn about the assignments developed and rubric used to assess students' ethical awareness and decision-making in auditing and accounting information systems courses.
- Excel Spin Buttons: A Visual Enhancement of Sensitivity Analysis
Presenters: Aundrea K. Guess, St. Edward's University; Thomas D. Tolleson, Texas Wesleyan University
Description: The use of spin buttons within Excel spreadsheets provides an opportunity for visually enhancing the learning process. Participants will learn the basics of spin buttons in general and their application to specific accounting issues such as as bond pricing and capital budgeting.
- Facilitating Student Self-Insight with a Performance Bonus System: Experiential Budgeting
Presenters: Timothy J. Fogarty, Case Western Reserve University; Paul Goldwater, University of Central Florida
Description: We need accurate self-insight to function. Faculty need to reward students not only for their achievements, but also for being aware of what their achievements are going to be. Students need a finely developed sense of their abilities and their shortfalls.
- Group Projects in Accounting: Forming Teams and Facilitating Interactions
Presenters: Sandy Hilton, University of British Columbia–Kelowna; Fred Phillips, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Does it matter whether student teams are self-selected or instructor-formed to balance skills? Using data from 120 student teams, we report the impact of team formation method on team functioning and performance, and we characterize team experiences from a student perspective.
- Helping Students Achieve Success in Intermediate Accounting While Maintaining Academic Rigor and High Course Evaluations
Presenter: Michael Harris, St. Edward's University
Description: Do your students struggle with the level of academic achievement you require in Intermediate Accounting and say so on course evaluations? This session presents a curriculum plan intended to help students achieve academic success in Intermediate Accounting at a high level of academic rigor and reduced test anxiety, all with high course evaluations.
- Incorporating a Serial Case in Cost/Management Accounting Courses
Presenters: Donna Dietz, North Dakota State University; Barbara Eide, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Description: AICPA's "Core Competency Framework." This session demonstrates how we adapted a serial case to incorporate multiple core competencies in undergraduate and MBA-level management accounting courses. We share our experiences, assignments, and classroom activities.
- Integrating Estate Planning Cases with Class Presentations and Consulting Experiences
Presenter: Anne Christensen, Montana State University
Description: Estate and gift planning comes alive as students develop specialized knowledge, act as consultants and rely on the expertise of others to develop sound estate plans for high-wealth individuals.
- Integrating MBA Courses in Accounting, Technology and Strategy
Presenters: Jane Finley, Belmont University; D. Warren, Belmont University
Description: Do you want your students to see accounting in the context of broader business decisions? Are team teaching and curriculum overhaul impractical ways to accomplish integration in the short term? This presentation describes one way of integrating across disciplinary boundaries using presentation teams with members for three MBA classes.
- Introducing Students to Ethical Frameworks
Presenters: Tracy S. Manly, University of Tulsa; Constance McKnight, Arkansas Tech University
Description: Learn a quick and easy in-class interactive exercise that introduces students to ethical frameworks. Examples of using this technique to introduce other topics such as tax policy are also shown.
- Lemonade 203 Computer Simulation
Presenter: Pamela J. Rouse, Butler University
Description: Lemonade 203 is an experiential exercise that helps students understand financing, investing, and operating activities using a computer simulation. Student teams develop a business strategy and enter their decisions in the simulation. Students prepare financial statements from the reports generated from the simulation.
- M&Ms: A Study in Attribute Sampling
Presenters: Thomas S. Clausen, University of Illinois at Springfield; Brian McAllister, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Description: Students use M&M candies to apply the same attribute sampling techniques learned in an introductory auditing course to test whether a "sample" of individual packages of M&Ms possess the specific proportion of candy colors asserted to by management.
- Making-It in Managerial Accounting
Presenter: Priscilla Wightman, Hartwick College
Description: What do jewelry, quilt racks, pillows, afghans, bird houses, tool pouches, and beer have to do with Managerial Accounting? A better grade if you're in my class. Come see just how creative accounting students can be.
- Managing Earnings: Have Students' Attitudes Changed Since Enron?
Presenter: Jeffrey Power, Saint Mary's University
Description: Some earnings management decisions may be considered ethically acceptable whereas others may be considered unacceptable. Has the pervasive reporting of scandals such as Enron affected student attitudes to these types of behaviours? This presentation will help answer that question.
- Miller Manufacturing Company: An Assessment Tool for the Graduate Cost Class
Presenters: Sid R. Ewer, Missouri State University; Craig Keller, Missouri State University; Stevan Olson, Missouri State University
Description: By the time many accounting students reach a graduate cost class, they have been instructed in many tools covered in cost and managerial accounting. What is left in graduate studies many times is to apply those tools in solving case situations and train them in linking the tools to the problems at hands and offer viable direction for corporate act
- New Life to Case Studies
Presenter: Natalie Tatiana Churyk, Northern Illinois University
Description: I am giving accounting case studies new life in two ways: by working with partners from various firms to develop cases that revolve around persistent accounting issues, and by having these partners facilitate the group discussions, sharing their personal experiences.
- Practice Makes Perfect: Integrating Software into Accounting Courses
Presenter: Carol Yacht, Computer Accounting Resources
Description: Accounting software is on every desktop. How can it be integrated into two or more accounting courses? Where, when and how does hands-on practice make perfect.
- Seeking More Effective Learning Through the Use of Protocols
Presenters: Michael Haselkorn, Bentley College; Lawrence Klein, Bentley College
Description: Engage and motivate your students! Help them feel empowered, course part-owners! Enhance their learning effectiveness! Use educational protocols! If you are aware, come to share; if you are unaware, come to find out! Handouts! Annotated listing of selected protocols!
- Statement of Cash Flows: Approaches to Teaching and Suggestions for Laying Foundation Early
Presenter: Brett Hunkins, Northwood University
Description: At this session, attendees will be exposed to strategies to teach the Statement of Cash Flows itself, in addition to some suggestions for ways faculty members may modify early stages of the course to emphasize the principles students will need to be successful with the Statement. Help make cash flow-related mnemonics redundant!
- Student Preparation and Participation Are the Keys to Student Success
Presenters: Bambi Hora, University of Central Oklahoma; Mary F. Sheets, University of Central Oklahoma; Katherene P. Terrell, University of Central Oklahoma; Robert L. Terrell, University of Central Oklahoma
Description: How do you get students to come to class prepared to learn and be challenged? We'll present different tools and techniques that we have successfully used in the classroom (from introductory to graduate level courses) which have increased student preparation and led to increased interaction and productive learning during class time.
- Taxes and Investments: A New Short Course
Presenter: Greg Geisler, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Description: Tax Professors: Learn to teach a new 1.5 or 1 credit course—"Taxes and Investments." of the more than 300 syllabi on the American Taxation Association's website, none focus on taxes and investments—a topic that impacts everyone's wealth.
- Teaching Accounting Ethics: Lessons Learned
Presenters: Robert Braun, Southeastern Louisiana University; Linda A. Kidwell, University of Wyoming
Description: Are you thinking about teaching an accounting ethics class? Have you ever taught one? This session highlights the successes and failures of first-time accounting ethics classes and invites others with ideas to share them.
- Teaching Accounting Online: Course Design and Technology Tools
Presenter: Stephanie Farewell, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Description: Attendees will learn how to use publisher provided and self-developed content to enrich the online learning environment. Examples of publisher provided and self-developed content will be demonstrated. There will be a continuous display of the use of a tablet PC and Camtasia Studio software to produce video content. Best practice will be discussed.
- Teaching Accounting Students to Recognize and Respect Cultural Differences
[Presentation Cancelled]
Presenters: Marie Kulesza, University of Hartford; Paul Mihalek, University of Hartford
Description: Accounting is a global profession. Do your students recognize and respect the cultural values and norms of students and professionals in other cultures. These exercises are designed to provide an introduction to cultural differences that can be used in almost every accounting course.
- Teaching Bond Accounting to Students
Presenter: Avinash Arya, University of Michigan Flint
Description: Do you find students struggle with discount and preimums when learning bond accounting? Do they get lost in present value tables? Do away with both and learn a simple amortization table utilizing Excel that students would love!
- Testing Critical Thinking Skills in Accounting Principles
Presenters: Lee Warren, Belmont University; Marilyn Young, Belmont University
Description: The introduction of challenge problems into the exam is an opportunity to demonstrate to students the application of accounting principles material to common business scenarios and to test the critical thinking skills of students. This session will present examples of challenge problems.
- The "Clinical Touch" in Audit Planning—Illustration of Classroom Created "Electronic Audit Work Papers"
Presenters: Robert Bloom, SUNY at Oswego; Hema Rao, SUNY at Oswego
Description: Students understand theoretical Auditing Concepts better when they are provided with classroom "clinical" audit experiences. The group audit project uses commercially available electronic audit "aids" and software. EDGAR and Research Insight provide client data. Analytical procedures and industry benchmarks highlight various risks in client audits.
- The Goodman Model: A Strategic Framework for Learning Engagement
Presenters: Gus Geursen, Central Queensland University Australia; Steve Goodman, Adelaide Graduate School of Business Australia; Sharon Kemp, Central Queensland University Australia
Description: For our teaching to attain increased learning results, we need to rethink our teaching methods in ways that unlock the learning power of individual students by aligning self paced learning technologies and good learning habits with a robust engagement model.
- The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global World of Taxation
Presenter: Brigitte W. Muehlmann, Suffolk University
Description: Do you wish to find an engaging and enjoayable way to teach principles of international taxation in the context of global commerce? This session presents a successfully implemented approach incorporating Pietra Rivoli's bestseller The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.
- Undergraduate Research across the Curriculum
Presenters: Margaret Boldt, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Allen K. Hunt, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Description: This session describes a way to engage undergraduate students in meaningful, applied research across multiple courses. Plus, the tangible outcome of the student research provides a rich source of assessment data on student outcomes that really matter to accounting faculty.
- Using a Live Business to Teach Management Accounting Concepts
Presenter: Peggy Ann Hughes, Montclair State University
Description: Learn how to use data from a local small company to teach management accounting concepts, while potentially improving the profitability of the business. Have students determine cost drivers, analyze the CVP relationship, and work on actual budgeting and forecasting of this real business.
- Using Active Learning to Introduce Corporate Equity Transactions
Presenters: Elsie Coker Ameen, Sam Houston State University; Alice Ketchand, Sam Houston State University
Description: The world of corporate equity transactions is unknown to most accounting students. To give these transactions life, try engaging students in an active learning exercise where they participate as owners in the transactions between a corporation and its stockholders.
- Using Manipulatives to Teach Percentage-of-Completion Method of Accounting for Long-Term Contracts
Presenters: Tracy S. Manly, The University of Tulsa; J. McCrary, The University of Tulsa
Description: Do percentage-of-completion accounting concepts confuse your students? Use Legos® to help students understand the difference between percentage of costs incurred vs. physical progress. This activity can be further developed to include calculating gross profit and developing the required accounting entries.
- Using Peer-Reviewed Writing in the Accounting Curriculum
Presenters: Laurie L. Burney, Mississippi State University; Michele Matherly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Do your students need improved writing skills? But, you struggle with these assignments because of the huge time drain? Learn our framework for improving students' writing without consuming your precious time—you can "have your cake and eat it too."
- Using the Game of Monopoly in Accounting Principles classes
Presenter: Gary Ross, Harding University
Description: Participants will receive handouts which will include instructions, paperwork/forms used, grading methods, and an explanation of how the project can be used in the following two formats: –at the end of the semester, or –during/throughout the semester.
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