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Accounting & business Computation in-service. Holly Harris – Nate Daniels. To prepare student for their roles as discerning consumers, investors, and citizens. Ice Breakers:. American Currency Exhibit http :// www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html iPad Activities Whiteboard
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Accounting & business Computation in-service Holly Harris – Nate Daniels To prepare student for their roles as discerning consumers, investors, and citizens
Ice Breakers: • American Currency Exhibit • http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html • iPad Activities • Whiteboard • http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whiteboard-lite-collaborative/id301962306?mt=8 • Popplet • http://popplet.com/app/#/489 • http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popplet/id374151636?mt=8 • It All Adds Up: • http://www.italladdsup.org/ • What Kind of Spender Are You: • http://www.themint.org/kids/try-it.html
Accounting introduction of the accounting cycle, preparation of financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of retained earnings.
Students should be able to: Accounting • Accounting: • Read, interpret, and analyze financial information • Apply generally accepted accounting principles • Understand how the accounting system provides business information • Recognize the various users of accounting information • Understand the dynamic nature of the business environment in which accounting information is used
Teaching Strategies: Accounting • Incorporating the User Approach Versus the Preparer Approach • Teaching the Accounting Cycle • Using Technology in Teaching and Learning Accounting • Writing to Learn Accounting • Speaking about Accounting • Collaboration/Working in Groups • Participating in Professional Student Organizations • Service Learning
Resources: Record Keeping • Designed to give students entry level skill in routine recording activities • Records for budgets • Credit • Cash receipts • Banking • Petty cash • Retail sales • Accounts payable and receivable • Payroll • Resources: • Monopolize Accounting: • http://www.oscpa.com/docs/educator-hs/MonopolizeAccounting.pdf • Balancing Your Checking Account: • http://www.themint.org/teens/balance-your-checking-account.html
Resources: Bookkeeping • Covers the recording, classifying, and summarizing of accounting tasks • Emphasizes the “how” of recording data • Resources: • Check Deposit: • http://www.gcflearnfree.org/everydaylife/deposit
Resources: Accounting • Beyond addressing the recording, classifying, and summarizing of financial-related information to incorporate accounting information analysis and interpretation • Principles of Financial Accounting • Analysis of reports • Financial statements • Accounts covering the accounting cycle for a sole proprietorship • Accounting for corporations • Individual financial statements (issues surrounding those particular line items) • Introduction to computerized accounting (optional) • Resources: • Moneytopia: • http://apps.finra.org/moneytopia/moneytopia.html • M&Ms Game: • http://lessonplans.btskinner.com/acctgmm.html
Business Computation Business Mathematics or Mathematics for business
Students should be able to: Bus. Comp. • Business Computations: • Make good decisions • Solve mathematics-based problems • Perform data analysis and interpretation
Teaching Strategies: Business Comp. • Recognizing Mathematics Anxiety/Avoidance Behaviors • Overcoming Computation Illiteracy • Integrating Business Computation into Other Courses • Estimating Answers and Cultivating Number sense • Developing Logical Reasoning through Solving Puzzles • Incorporating International Aspects of Business Computation • Using Metric Conversion Calculators • Using Foreign Currency Conversion Calculators • Teaching Discounts and Percentage Rate • Writing to Learn Business Computation
Resources: Business Computation • Mathematical foundations: • Solving problems by applying foundational mathematic operations • Number relationship and operations: • Solving problems that involved decimals, whole numbers, fractions, percentages, averages, ratios and proportions • Patterns, function and algebra: • Solving problems via algebraic operations • Measurements: • Solving problems using currency conversions • Statistics and probability: • Using common statistical tools for mathematical procedures in the analysis and solution of business problems • Problem-solving applications: • Employing mathematical procedures in the analysis and solution of business problems • Resources: • Money Instructor • http://moneyinstructor.com/business.asp • Money Skills: • http://moneyskill.org/