My Helpers in Accounting Education and Research

Robert E. Jensen
Trinity University

Executive Summary

About three years ago, I undertook this web project to provide helpers to educators in general and accounting educators in particular. The scope of the project has been expanded to encompass accounting researchers and practitioners. For example, accounting researchers and practitioners have been especially active in seeking out my online SFAS 133 tutorials on Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging Activities.

One drawback of my project is that its components in terms of online books, web documents, and tutorials are too voluminous to include with this proposal. They comprise hundreds of files and over 2,000 hours of learning modules that are available for Internet viewing from the following two web servers:

My public web site at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen . This web site includes tutorials and course materials that I have spent thousands of hours putting online over the past three years.

My semi-public web site for SFAS 133 (Derivative Financial Instruments Accounting and Hedging Activities) is accessible upon request by authorized individuals. By "semi-public" I mean that these particular tutorials are currently made available free to accounting educators and practitioners. The web site is not to be made available where students can find the links since the answers to questions and problems are included in the listing of files at this web site. The server also contains my funclong.xls file that demonstrates some mistakes and shortcomings of the finance functions in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software.

For an example of my shared materials, I suggest that you view my file entitled "SFAS 133 Glossary and Transcriptions of Presentations by Experts" at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/133glosf.htm . The tutorials that accompany those public materials are available at the semi-public web site shown above.

In addition, over the past decade I have been invited to over 200 campuses around the world to present my business and accounting education technology workshops. Prior to placing my materials on the Internet, I freely distributed my learning modules on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. I have never charged for these shared materials. Nor have I charged for my campus visitations. My only request was to reimburse my travel expenses.

I have also made presentations at many conferences, especially American Accounting Association (AAA) meetings, AICPA educators conferences, state society of CPA accounting educators conferences, and CPA firm continuing education sessions such as the Trueblood Seminars. In addition, I have always conducted at least two Continuing Education Program workshops at AAA annual meetings over the past six years.

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