This Introduction to Accounting Bundle Includes activities that align with the first few chapters of an accounting class!

• Ice Breaker Activity: Students will answer questions on a ready to use slideshow. It's a perfect way to kick off your accounting course or introduce the subject. Designed to challenge perceptions and highlight the real-world relevance of accounting, it encourages students to think critically and collaboratively without relying on prior knowledge or research and become engaged in an accounting class.
• Intro to Accounting Word Search: Students will read the definition- and then find the corresponding term in the word search in Google Sheets (great for practicing spreadsheet skills!) Vocabulary words include account, asset, liability, owner's equity, etc.
• Accounting Importance Activity: students will produce their understanding of an accounting system by explaining the importance of an Accounting System to a friend starting a sole proprietorship.
• Ethics in Accounting Activity: Students will read two articles regarding a company's ethics, conduct research of their own on ethics in business and accounting, and produce 3 paragraphs regarding the importance of ethics in accounting.
• Accounting Project Creating a Business: Students will develop their own service business and Integrate aspects of accounting that will help them start thinking like business owners & accountants!
• Accounting Equation Digital Activity: Students will analyze each transaction to determine how it affects assets, liabilities, and equity. Next, they will record the effects in a provided table, showing how each account changes after each transaction and calculate the new balances for assets, liabilities, and equity after each transaction.
• Chart of Accounts & Accounting Equation Activity: Read through 8 transactions from a pet grooming business and identify the accounts it affects, label the accounts as an asset, liability, owner's equity, revenue, or expense account, and determine the amount by which the account increased or decreased. Create a chart of accounts for the pet grooming business (template provided for students) Create the final accounting equation for the period (template provided for students)
• T-Account Balances: Students will click and drag the "increase," "decrease," and "balance" text boxes to the correct side of each T Account and calculate the final balance, then complete the final accounting equation.

Looking for additional accounting activities?

• Accounting Activity Digital T Accounts General Journal Trial Balance
• Halloween Accounting Activity
• Correcting Entries Activity
• T-Account and Journal Entry Practice