MSU
What MSU program provides students with real-world experience preparing tax returns?
VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)
What type of symptom did 38.5% of anxious accounting educators experience?
Physical Symptoms
What was a concern regarding the low survey response rate?
Non-response bias
Employers expect accounting graduates to demonstrate adaptability and this key self-management skill
Time Management
Who do we want to hood us?
MARC G.
MSU uses this type of simulation to help accounting students build leadership and decision-making skills.
Leadership Simulation
Students often compare learning accounting to learning this difficult skill.
Learning a foreign language
What were the categories this research paper classified course into?
Accounting courses, non-accounting business courses, and non-business courses
Digital game-based learning can increase these two student traits. Name one.
Enthusiasm or engagement
Who is taking us out for drinks this week?
Angela!
MSU (an nearly every other university) faces challenges in this area that puts additional strain on existing accounting faculty.
Recruiting and retaining enough accounting professors
One recommended method for easing student anxiety on the first day of class is wearing this type of clothing.
What type of learning did previous research not consider?
Hybrid programs
MSU's consulting projects help students learn to communicate what two types of information?
Financial and non-financial information
Sean
Name one MSU event where accounting students can meet recruiters and network professionally.
Meet the Accounting Recruiters (or MPAc Professionalism Workshop)
Name two ongoing classroom activities suggested to reduce accounting anxiety.
(1) Icebreaker activities or seating changes and (2) using role-playing or group projects
Employers worry that taking all courses online might weaken what important professional abilities?
Soft skills like communication, teamwork, and confidence
What is a downside of digital game based learning?
“Coded” way of learning, or feedback is prescriptive
Whose not afraid to fail us?
Gary
Besides coursework, what two MSU opportunities help students transition from theory into practice in accounting?
Internships and consulting projects (like the Fraud Project
What percentage of post-secondary accounting educators reported experiencing teaching anxiety?
78%
What percentage of credits earned online was the point to which would lower evaluation of a candidate
45%
Besides internships, name two examples of work-integrated learning approaches discussed for accounting students.
Consulting projects (like Fraud Project) and mentoring programs (like MPAc workshops)?consulting projects (like Fraud Project) and mentoring programs (like MPAc workshops)
What Boston professor did our grades get reevaluated after his final semester?
John Dudas