The UCare Business Plan Project: A Managerial Accounting Classroom Teaching Tool
Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations
ISBN: 978-1-78052-222-7, eISBN: 978-1-78052-223-4
Publication date: 16 August 2011
Abstract
This chapter describes a student team project that involves the creation and delivery of a fundraising event business plan for a nonprofit organization. The project challenges students to become active learners and apply managerial accounting concepts associated with cost behavior, planning, and control in a realistic environment that sensitizes them to the missions of nonprofit organizations. It requires students to research and use real-world operational and financial information in a setting to which they can relate, and develops their understanding of how various business disciplines are integrated. We have used the project in introductory managerial and intermediate cost accounting courses to target specific core competencies identified as critical to a successful accounting career by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Citation
Matuszewski, L. and Miller, F. (2011), "The UCare Business Plan Project: A Managerial Accounting Classroom Teaching Tool", Catanach, A.H. and Feldmann, D. (Ed.) Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1085-4622(2011)0000012003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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