Council for Economic Education
Understanding a Balance Sheet
Read any financial website or book, and it is bound to discuss the words asset and liability. But what do these words actually mean to the class? The resource effectively explains by using multiple formats and techniques, including...
Council for Economic Education
Using an Excel Checkbook
High school is the time that many scholars get their first jobs. Help young entrepreneurs apply economic principles to crucial skills for their new jobs and for functioning in society in general. They use Excel to balance a checkbook by...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Break-Even Point
How do companies determine the prices of their products? Marketing maestros discover the concepts of cost and break-even point through discussion, independent practice, and a collaborative assessment. The career and technology-oriented...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Depreciation (Double Declining)
Have you ever been told that your new car begins to lose its value as soon as you drive it off the lot? Aspiring accountants take on the concepts of depreciation and book value through an easy-to-deliver career and technology lesson. The...
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Complete Adjustment Column of a Worksheet
Students take turns reading pages in their Accounting text concerning worksheets. They watch as the teacher demonstrates the concept-starting with two, buying 4 and ending with one, they see that the one remaining box must be considered...
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Accounting Monopoly
Students use Monopoly to review the accounting cycle. They create their own transactions while playing Monopoly. Students produce the financial statements that will match the transactions of the game.
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Ratio Analysis
Students define ratios and how they apply in a business context. They practice ratios through an activity that involves financial data.
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Preparing an Income Statement
Tenth graders discuss the contents of income statements. In this accounting lesson plan, 10th graders are introduced to the parts of an income statement. Students practice filling out the four parts of an income statement,...
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Preparing a Balance Sheet
Students prepare a balance sheet. In this balance sheet lesson, students learn the parts of a balance sheet and how they are represented. Students use a formula to calculate equity.
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Debt
In this economics worksheet, students find the terms that are related to the concept of debt and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Cash Flow Worksheet
In this accounting instructional activity, students answer the questions with filling in the correct words from the word bank based around the subject of cash flow for the 13 questions.
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Cash Control Systems
Students are introduced to cash control systems including checking accounts, endorsing and writing checks. In groups, they define a bank statement and practice how to read them. To end the lesson, they discover how to create a petty...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Sales and Cash Payments
Students brainstorm a list of what they believe a customer is. In groups, they practice journaling sales to a customer who pays with cash or with credit. To end the lesson, they discover the proper way to prove cash payments at the end...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Transactions
Pupils are introduced to a five column way to record transactions. In groups, they discuss the importance of source documents when recording the transactions and balancing the account at the end of the month. To end the lesson, they...
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Accounting - Analyzing Transactions to Debit/Credit Parts
Students are introduced to how transactions are analyzed with debits and credits. In groups, they complete a T-chart in which the account increases with credits and decreases with debits. To end the lesson, they analyze the various...
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Accounting -- Financial Statements for a Partnership
Students engage in an introduction of financial statements for a partnership set up as a merchandising business. They review the need of financial statements and how to effectively read/use financial statements.
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Accounting -- Journalizing Purchases and Cash Payments
Students comprehend what a partnership is, how a merchandising business is set up, what a vendor is, how to use invoices, as well as journaling purchases for cash and on account. They get an introduction, review games, and are quizzed on...
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Account-Recording Adjusting/Closing Entries
Students explore adjusting and closing accounting entries. They complete an outline and post closing entries to their appropriate accounts. They prepare a Post Closing Trial Balance at the end of a fiscal period and complete online...
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Account-Recording Adjusting/Close Entries for Service Business
Students discover how to journal adjustments and post them into general ledger accounts. They explore what a post closing trial balance is and why it is prepared at the end of a fiscal period. They complete an outline and play online...
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Accounting: Work Sheet for a Service Business
Students explore how to complete work sheets for a service business. They enter transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship into a worksheet that reviews the business activities for the past fiscal year. They...
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Account --Recording Sales/Cash Recpts w/ Spec. Journals
Students explore sales journal, purchases journal, general journal, cash receipts journal, and Cash payments journal. They master the online vocabulary activities and then they complete the online chapter quiz.
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Account -Recording Purchases/Cash Pmts - Spec. Journals
Students review general ledgers, introduction of a corporation, and how they are set up. Students review transactions used on a general journal such as: journaling purchase returns and allowances, buying supplies on accounts, then...
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Accounting -- Preparing Payroll Records
Students review preparation of payroll records and practice these skills while playing games on the computer. They follow a student outline and complete online activities and quiz.
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Account-Recording Adjusting/Close Entries, Partnership
Students examine adjusting and closing entries for a partnership set up as a merchandising business. They participate in a game and online activities, read handouts, complete an outline, and take a quiz.