Southeast Region Meeting American Accounting Association April 11–13, 2002 Hosted by Northern Kentucky University Covington, Kentucky

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2002 Southeast Region Meeting
CPE Sessions

Continuing Professional Education, Thursday April 11, 2002

Morning Session:

1. Teaching the Concepts of Consulting to Accounting Students
(8:30 am - 12 pm) $ 50

2. Introduction to XML
(8:30 am - 12:00 pm) $ 50

3. Tour of Argosy Casino and Session on Casino Internal Controls
(8:30 am - 1:30 pm) $ 25

Afternoon Session:

4. Service Learning in Accounting Education: Active Development of Civically Responsible Professionals
(1:00 - 4:30 pm) $ 50

5. The First Accounting Course for MBAs: A Total Redesign
(1:00 - 4:30 pm) $ 50

6. Introduction to XBRL
(1:00 pm - 5:30 pm) $ 50

Morning Session: 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

1. Teaching Consulting in the Accounting Curriculum
Presenters: Nancy Bagranoff, Miami University and Stephanie Bryant, University of South Florida
The workshop's objective is to provide accounting faculty with the tools to teach a consulting course within the accounting curriculum. The 150-hour requirement provides accounting faculty with the opportunity to teach a non-traditional course that recognizes the consultative nature of accounting work. Both presenters teach a consulting course using different models. One model uses cases and the other model focuses on a real company project.

Specifically the workshop will discuss teaching the following topics: project and change management, professional services marketing, the consulting process, legal and ethical issues for accounting consultants, process mapping, consulting service lines for accountants, data collection and analysis. These topics are covered in a consulting course in the accounting curriculum with an accounting slant. For instance, in teaching project management, we discuss the project-centric nature of accounting and audit work.

2. Introduction to XML
Presenter: Skip White, University of Delaware
This session is an introduction into Extensible Markup Language. XML allows web designers to create their own customized tags enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations. [More Info]

3. Site Tour of Argosy Casino and Presentation on Casino Internal Controls
Presenter: Ralph Brown, Argosy Controller
This site tour will include a tour of the Argosy Casino complex in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, a lunch on-site, and a presentation by the Controller.

Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

4. Service-Learning in Accounting Education: Active Development of Civically Responsible Professionals [Cancelled]
Presenter: Margarita Lenk, Colorado State University
This workshop will define service-learning, its critical success factors and practices, and the typical outcomes. Then, many different applications of service-learning projects in accounting education from around the world will be described. The main activity of this program will be to design service-learning elements for your programs, which can take the form of coursework, club activities, internships or independent studies.

5. The First Accounting Course for MBA's: A Total Redesign
Presenter: Ronald J. Huefner, SUNY at Buffalo
This seminar will introduce you to a totally different way of organizing and teaching the first accounting course - a "models" approach. Choice of specific models to be covered will depend on the focus of the course, the length of the course, and its role in the curriculum. [More Info]

Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm

6. Introduction to XBRL
Presenter: Skip White, University of Delaware
XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), formerly code named XFRML, is a freely available electronic language for financial reporting. It is an XML-based framework that provides the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, reliably extract and automatically exchange financial statements of publicly held companies and the information they contain. XBRL is not about establishing new accounting standards but enhancing the usability of the ones that we have through the digital language of business. XBRL will not require additional disclosure from companies to outside audiences. [More Info]

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