Educators

To help other accounting educators, I have created four blogs/websites with content for accounting classes. All content is free for educators and students. Here is the site listing:

Accounting In The Headlines (link) is a blog about current news stories and how they relate to accounting. The stories and discussion questions are written with the student in introductory financial or managerial accounting in mind. In addition to a short news story and discussion questions related to basic accounting, there is now a short tutorial video provided with each blog post that goes over the basics of the accounting concept being covered in the blog post. I try to do at least one blog post per week during the academic year.

Accounting Is Analytics (link) is a blog I co-author with Tracie Miller and Jennifer Cainas. In this blog, we share accounting data analytics projects we have created with the introductory financial and managerial accounting students in mind. The data analytics projects use Excel, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Alteryx, Power BI, Google Sheets, and more. All projects include step-by-step tutorial videos and are free for educators and students. Instructor materials can be requested by using the link that is provided with each project.

Accounting Review Games (link) is a site I created to share accounting review games created in PowerPoint. These accounting review games are suitable for introductory financial or managerial accounting. Games included (with accounting content) include Jeopardy, Family Feud, Connect 4, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Accounting Case Template (link) is a tool I authored to help instructors create a basic financial statement analysis project that has students use Form 10-ks to compare and analyze two or three companies’ financial statements. With this tool, you fill in information related to your own course, such as your email address, how many students in each group, how many companies you want each group to compare, what financial accounting topics you want to use, and more. Once you have provided the information about your setup, you will be able to download a Word document of the student handout containing the project requirements. It only takes a few minutes to fill out the information, saving you a lot of time in the project creation step. Note that this tool will not work on mobile devices, so you will need to use it on a desktop or laptop.