Classroom Resources
From videos to handouts, these classroom resources will help you bring accounting to life in your classroom.
Videos & Webinars
Virtual Career Day
Our Accounting Career Day program shows high school students the world of opportunity an accounting degree can bring. Register now for instant access to career videos, student panels, and more.
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Networking Starter Kit
This series of short videos will turn you from networking novice to pro! Learn the best ways to connect with others and make a great first impression.
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Planning a presentation and don't know where to start?
The AICPA Student Engagement Toolkit has information to help! This kit includes tips, presentations, and more for presenting to all audiences.
Classroom Printed Materials
Become a CPA in Pennsylvania Book
Audience: Accounting Majors, Recent Graduates, Educators
This comprehensive guide to the CPA Exam and licensing includes details about education requirements, costs, preparation tips, and valuable links for CPA candidates.
Additional Resource: CPA Exam & Licensing Center.
Transfer Your Way to CPA
Audience: Community College Students
Crafting Your Career
Audience: College Students, Accounting Majors
This how-to guide for future CPAs walks students through a four-step activitiy-based plan to chart out their career path.
Potential, Prestige & Purpose
Audience: College Students, Undecided
This booklet describes exactly what accountants do, details the benefits of becoming one, and explains the prestige of the CPA.
Digital Books
Start Here Go Places Magazine
The latest on different career avenues, rising stars, and what the future might hold when you get to the business world.
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Robert Half International Salary Guide
Access accounting and finance salary information, including the latest predictions for starting salaries in a variety of jobs. In addition to data related to finance and accounting salary information, this guide offers insights on hiring trends.
PowerPoint Presentations
Presentations are designed to be customized to meet your needs. Suggestions for topics that aren't here? Please contact us at schools@picpa.org.
Accounting – Is It for You?
This presentation outlines what CPAs do and the variety of career paths students can choose after becoming a CPA. Speakers should draw from their own professional experience relating to the accounting profession.
The Cost of Credit Cards
This is a lesson on the costs of credit cards. Through Q&A students are informed about the facts and fiction of owning a credit card. This is meant to be a 30 minute presentation with about one slide per minute.
Minority CPAs – Your Competitive Advantage
In a global economy, opportunities abound for minority CPAs. This presentation outlines ways to land a job and create diversity in the workforce.
IT Assurance: A Fantastic Career Choice!
IT assurance combines audit and consulting expertise with technology to transform a business’s operations and financial reporting processes. This presentation provides an overview of this emerging field, education and experience requirements, and associated certifications.
Pennsylvania CPA Journal
Published quarterly, the Pennsylvania CPA Journal is the flagship publication of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Find technical updates, commentary on professional issues, information on PICPA programs, and more.
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Additional Resources
PICPA Federal Tax Reform Guide
The Pennsylvania CPA Journal presents this technical guide to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. A great, relevant reading material for high school or college classrooms. Read the digital edition or download a PDF.
Inspire Future CPAs in the Classroom
PICPA Diversity Committees financial literacy programs for students.
Start Here Go Places
AICPA's student and educator website — designed to inspire and educate the next generation of future CPAs from High School through College graduation. See also: Ask A CPA.
This Way To CPA
AICPA's college student website, giving students wisdom, motivation, and guidance to becoming a licensed CPA.
Looking for additional help in your accounting classes or as you prepare for the exam? Be sure to check out Professor Farhat's YouTube channel filled with free accounting lectures and lessons.
