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Color Accounting in action.
Two Hilton College (high school) students in South Africa demonstrating the hands-on Color Accounting approach by analyzing cash flows through the bank account. "Accounting is easy when you can see it" (and touch it)! |
AccountingSchool.com is a happy place for accounting-101 students. Whether the students are doing bookkeeping, accounting, business, personal finance, entrepreneurial studies or pretty much anything else, accounting is the business language they will need to make decisions and measure financial success.
Up until now, accounting has had what is probably a well deserved reputation for being a difficult subject to learn, and people think that you need to be good at mathematics to be an accountant, none of which is true by the way.
The world renown Color Accounting approach used exclusively at AccountingSchool.com changes all of that.
Professor Paul Healy, Head of the Accounting Unit at Harvard Business School said "Color Accounting has the advantage of showing how accounting works visually. We all tend to see problems and relationships more easily visually, so the approach takes advantage of how we learn most effectively. As such, I believe that it is of value to anyone who is interested in understanding how accounting works (from high school students to MBAs to business executives)."
Initially, we have two main approaches for you to consider using with your students:
(1) Accounting Boot Camp (ABC) lays down the foundations of accounting literacy in approximately 5 to 15 hours of class time. It is designed for you, the accounting Educator, to leverage your traditional accounting-101 course.
(2) Full Curriculum provides a series of 60 lessons that you can use in place of your current curriculum (wholly or partially), or as a supplement to what you already have. It is based on the South African high school and can easily be adapted for any country. We are currently transitioning its original website into this one.
These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. For example, it is relatively common for teachers to start their students with Accounting Boot Camp and then supplement their traditional curriculum (mainly the parts they or the students don't like) with elements from the Full Curriculum menu.
Notes:
Up until now, accounting has had what is probably a well deserved reputation for being a difficult subject to learn, and people think that you need to be good at mathematics to be an accountant, none of which is true by the way.
The world renown Color Accounting approach used exclusively at AccountingSchool.com changes all of that.
Professor Paul Healy, Head of the Accounting Unit at Harvard Business School said "Color Accounting has the advantage of showing how accounting works visually. We all tend to see problems and relationships more easily visually, so the approach takes advantage of how we learn most effectively. As such, I believe that it is of value to anyone who is interested in understanding how accounting works (from high school students to MBAs to business executives)."
Initially, we have two main approaches for you to consider using with your students:
(1) Accounting Boot Camp (ABC) lays down the foundations of accounting literacy in approximately 5 to 15 hours of class time. It is designed for you, the accounting Educator, to leverage your traditional accounting-101 course.
(2) Full Curriculum provides a series of 60 lessons that you can use in place of your current curriculum (wholly or partially), or as a supplement to what you already have. It is based on the South African high school and can easily be adapted for any country. We are currently transitioning its original website into this one.
These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. For example, it is relatively common for teachers to start their students with Accounting Boot Camp and then supplement their traditional curriculum (mainly the parts they or the students don't like) with elements from the Full Curriculum menu.
Notes:
- We are in the process of creating an abridged version of the Full Curriculum here soon which will be available by key content areas.
- We are also in the early stages of creating a generic Learning Management System (LMS) to provide an online accounting-101 type course which you can run in conjunction with live classroom events, entirely remotely, or some combination thereof. The LMS has been extensively trialled in the UK and should be available for general use with the start of the 2020-21 US school year.
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The Accounting Boot Camp approach typically accelerates much of your traditional curriculum, and
through its use of the BaSIS Framework™, provides deeper and richer understanding. |
Some background
Color Accounting is a representation, explanatory, and therefore, educational technology. It has been evolving for over twenty years and was enabled by the advent of technologies, such as color printing and desktop publishing software. Its time had come.
Color Accounting was initially used as an accelerated learning system, for business education in the workplace. Neurological research has backed up what Color Accounting educators have noticed, that humans respond quicker to conceptual information presented graphically and spatially. It became obvious early on that Color Accounting would benefit younger learners using traditional curricula in schools and colleges too.
After introducing Color Accounting into secondary and tertiary schools around the world, new evidence quickly mounted that color, graphics and illuminated plain language create a step-change in student learning and teacher effectiveness. Many examples continue to emerge of Color Accounting enhancing traditional accounting teaching. These include the transformation of accounting in one high school from a nearly-cancelled-subject to most-popular-elective, in the space of a year.
Color Accounting was initially used as an accelerated learning system, for business education in the workplace. Neurological research has backed up what Color Accounting educators have noticed, that humans respond quicker to conceptual information presented graphically and spatially. It became obvious early on that Color Accounting would benefit younger learners using traditional curricula in schools and colleges too.
After introducing Color Accounting into secondary and tertiary schools around the world, new evidence quickly mounted that color, graphics and illuminated plain language create a step-change in student learning and teacher effectiveness. Many examples continue to emerge of Color Accounting enhancing traditional accounting teaching. These include the transformation of accounting in one high school from a nearly-cancelled-subject to most-popular-elective, in the space of a year.
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"Color Accounting has the advantage of showing how accounting works visually. We all tend to see problems and relationships more easily visually, so the approach takes advantage of how we learn most effectively. As such, I believe that it is of value to anyone who is interested in understanding how accounting works (from high school students to MBAs to business executives)."
- Professor Paul Healy, Head of Accounting Unit, Harvard Business School |
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"Why do I like Colour Accounting? Well, you can see the whole picture of what happened, on one board. You can see how every transaction impacts the whole system.
With kids, accounting is a difficult subject to understand - because you normally don’t know WHY you are debiting and crediting things, you don’t understand how things fit together. You’re just going from one thing to the other. It’s quite abstract. With Colour Accounting it’s all on one diagram and it all makes so much sense. And you understand the concepts so much better. And I love the interactiveness of it. Just last week I met a boy who is joining us in Grade 11. I asked him 'What do you find hard about accounting?' He said 'I don’t understand how it all fits together.' So I showed him the BaSIS Framework and he just said 'Wow. Totally simplified.' - Anne Kriel, Head of Department, Hilton College |
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"I am looking forward to once again using CA materials as the opening component to my accounting class here at Tunghai University in Taiwan. CA has become a distinguishing and unique feature. It is always interesting to ask my freshman students on day #1 what they feel when they see the word "accounting". The responses are always very negative: "fear", "terrified", "hard math". It takes Color Accounting to bring down the fears and put smiles on faces. Thank you so much for making a difference!"
- James S. Gillespie, Tunghai University International College, Taiwan |
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"Word got out about Color Accounting and we have a long waiting list for the workshop. Our facilitators are now running two seminars a month just for staff members." - Louis Biggie, Director, Learning Solutions, Talent Management and Organization Development, Johns Hopkins University |
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"Attached please find the informal evaluations from your skills institute. They are excellent! In my role as Program Coordinator, these are the strongest evaluations I've seen. Thank you for teaching such a fantastic course!" "Color Accounting has been the best class I've ever taken," Social Enterprise, Masters Student |
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