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Accounting Boot Camp
Accounting Boot Camp
Accounting Boot Camp is a pre-curriculum program that prepares students for their academic accounting 101 class.
In 5 to 15 hours of face-to-face teaching time, Accounting Boot Camp lays down the foundations of accounting literacy. It is designed for you, the faculty accounting professor (lecturer or teacher), to leverage your traditional accounting 101 course. Accounting Boot Camp has a proven impact on student achievement and pass-rates. It is used at a growing list of schools and universities in the US, UK, China and South Africa.
In 5 to 15 hours of face-to-face teaching time, Accounting Boot Camp lays down the foundations of accounting literacy. It is designed for you, the faculty accounting professor (lecturer or teacher), to leverage your traditional accounting 101 course. Accounting Boot Camp has a proven impact on student achievement and pass-rates. It is used at a growing list of schools and universities in the US, UK, China and South Africa.
At the heart of Accounting Boot Camp is an intriguing 'Student Pack' which speaks to "this is different", "hmmm, interesting" and "I can do this". Each Accounting Boot Camper receives a Student Pack, and you as their accounting professor/lecturer/teacher are supported by a rich collection of teaching resources. These will show you how to right away and easily run your Accounting Boot Camp (ABC). And have fun in the process.
The ABC Student Pack is US$25 and comprises:
The resources for professors include:
Accounting Boot Camp can be completed in one day or more, or spread over multiple sessions as short as an hour or less.
Accounting Boot Camp does not alter your existing accounting curriculum so no special permission is required in that regard. It links with, and supports, your existing approved course/s. For example, BaSIS Framework™ posters let the professor easily refer back to foundation concepts covered in Accounting Boot Camp.
Teaching time required for the combined Accounting Boot Camp and your traditional Accounting 101 curriculum typically stays the same in total, or can allow for additional time applied to existing content or even some additional content. This is because Accounting Boot Camp accelerates the learning pace of your traditional curriculum - see below.
The ABC Student Pack is US$25 and comprises:
- Full-color spiral bound ABC Student Workbook
- ABC Student Kit: Hands-on tools and stationery (BaSIS Framework™, journal tickets, classic transactions, account buckets, chart of account stickers)
- Color-logic highlighters
- And, you can add/swap other resources to tailor a 'pack' for your students as needed. We can guide you as needed. See the companion Professor-site for more details.
The resources for professors include:
- Pedagogy Guide explaining the underlying Color Accounting™ teaching technology
- Annotated guide to the ABC Student Workbook
- Simplified teaching sequence steps
- Student activity solutions
- 'How-to' videos modeling delivery of the key sequences
- Best practice notes
- PowerPoint slides for the classroom
- Supplementary study materials and solutions
- Reference poster for the classroom and tutorial room wall
- Opportunity to have an 'ABC implementation day' whereby an experienced Color Accounting facilitator will 'teach the teachers' and get them started immediately.
- Regional professional development days with updates, new developments and latest issues being covered.
- Support hotline to experienced teaching advisors
Accounting Boot Camp can be completed in one day or more, or spread over multiple sessions as short as an hour or less.
Accounting Boot Camp does not alter your existing accounting curriculum so no special permission is required in that regard. It links with, and supports, your existing approved course/s. For example, BaSIS Framework™ posters let the professor easily refer back to foundation concepts covered in Accounting Boot Camp.
Teaching time required for the combined Accounting Boot Camp and your traditional Accounting 101 curriculum typically stays the same in total, or can allow for additional time applied to existing content or even some additional content. This is because Accounting Boot Camp accelerates the learning pace of your traditional curriculum - see below.
Some background
Color Accounting is a representation, explanatory, and therefore, educational technology. It has been evolving for over twenty years. It 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 corporate education in the workplace. Neurological research has backed up what Color Accounting practitioners 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 accrue of Color Accounting enhancing traditional accounting teaching. These include the transformation of accounting in one high school from nearly-cancelled-subject to most-popular-elective, in the space of a year.
Color Accounting was initially used as an accelerated learning system, for corporate education in the workplace. Neurological research has backed up what Color Accounting practitioners 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 accrue of Color Accounting enhancing traditional accounting teaching. These include the transformation of accounting in one high school from 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 |
Professor - Companion Site
If you are a faculty member and teach accounting 101 at your university, college or high school (or a verified homeschool parent), you can request access to the professor-only companion site to this student website by clicking the button below.
Ordering Materials
You can access the professor-site to check pricing and see what is available, and we are here to advise you also.
Additional teaching resources can be found under the Resources Menu - Curriculum Replacement.
Additional teaching resources can be found under the Resources Menu - Curriculum Replacement.