Teaching & Curriculum Conference | American Accounting Association

ATA Teaching and Curriculum Conference

February 25, 2016

7:00am – 8:00am	Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 9:15am	Student interest in Taxation – what are the issues? Steve Gill, San Diego State University Mobile phone use encouraged for Poll Everywhere app

9:30am – 10:45am	Teaching Tax Research: A Panel Tad Ransopher, Georgia State University Roby Sawyers, North Caroline State University Christine Griffith, Partner KPMG

11:00am – 12:15pm	Tax Teaching Tips and Techniques – An interactive session Julia Camp, Providence College A Corporate Tax Return Simulation: Utilizing Electronic Workpapers and Resolving Ambiguous Issues Ellen Edwards Best, University of North Georgia Jennifer B. Schafer, Kennesaw State University bContext: Bringing Real-time Instruction to Online Students Candace Witherspoon, Valdosta State University Teaching Taxation through Age-based Scenarios Karl Bryan Menk, Duquesne University Using Twitter in Advanced Federal Taxation: Bringing Current Tax Events Into the Classroom Ellen Edwards Best, University of North Georgia Switching it Up Online: “Switcher” as a Vehicle for Visual Transactions Alisha M. Harper, Bellarmine University Michael Strawser, BellarmineUniversiry

12:15m – 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm – 2:45pm	Using Tax Big Data and Data Visualization in Class Learn about Powerlytics and its aggregated databases of individual, partnership, and corporate tax returns that can be used in class or for research. Then understand from both the faculty and student perspective how Powerlytics and Tableau can add visual impact to tax courses by learning about an innovative project at Washington and Lee University. Presenters: Raquel Alexander, The American Accounting Association Amanda Garcia, Washington and Lee University Susan Crosson, The American Accounting Association
3:00pm – 5:00pm	Tax Data Analytics: A New Era for Tax Expectations continue to grow for tax departments to operate more efficiently while providing more strategic tax viewpoints to the business. How can tax data analytics help drive these changes? Companies are focusing on data infrastructure, assembling the right people and resources, and finding new insights through tax data analytics. All of this effort requires new skillsets. In this session, participants will hear on new ways that companies are expanding their data analytics efforts in the tax function. Participants will also join in a group discussion on ways to incorporate tax data analytics into the classroom to help create a new skillset in tax professionals. Presenters: Beth Mueller, Deloitte PetrasVainius, Deloitte
5:30pm – 6:30pm	Reception