Teach Excel with Battleship
Most accounting professionals will tell you that knowing how to use Excel is a necessity in the accounting career. Click here for a fun way for students to learn the basics.
Scholarships available from the AICPA
Remind your students that if they choose to major in accounting in college, there are several different scholarships available to college students from the AICPA. The deadline for the high school senior scholarship has passed, although it may something to tuck away in your notes for next year.
CPA hops into a dynamic career
Read a profile of a financial analyst with Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls. Find out why he became a CPA and what a typical day is like in his job. This article and others found in our college student newsletter, News for the CPA2B, may be of interest to you and your students.
Accountants in demand despite sluggish economy
The Jan/Feb issue of the WICPA's magazine, On Balance, features an article on the supply and demand of accountants. Learn what the future holds for accounting graduates.
Another curriculum boost from Start Here. Go Places.
The Teaching Assistant at StartHereGoPlaces.com is an online tool to help you engage your students in learning about rewarding careers in business and accounting. Through its easy-to-use Web interface you can: review and share site content (including print and online publications), download teaching tools of popular business simulation games, e-mail site content to your students and manage class e-mail lists. Sign in to access the Teaching Assistant.
WICPA partners with Wisconsin high schools
To request a high school speaker and find out more about the WICPA programs with Wisconsin high schools, download our teacher's resources flyer.
Piggy Banks?
The WICPA is looking for the teacher who made piggy banks with her students as part of a financial literacy project a year or two ago. If it is you, e-mail mary@wicpa.org.
