Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award
The Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award recognizes and disseminates successful teaching practices in the first sequence of accounting. Recipients are selected from the pool of accepted submissions to the AAA's Effective Learning Strategies Forum. Lesson plans include learning objectives, detailed case/activity description, and addressed AICPA Pre-certification Core Competencies.
Winning lessons/materials for all AICPA educator awards for this and previous years are available for download to AICPA members through the Accounting Educators' Curriculum Resource. The finalist(s) in all three award categories will be asked to present their work at the following year’s American Accounting Association Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA), receive a plaque and an AICPA funded award totaling $5,000. Honorable mention winner(s) in all three award categories will receive a plaque and an AICPA funded award totaling $500. Additionally, your work will be featured in the AICPA’s Accounting Professors’ Curriculum Resource, where all works of current and past winners are featured for use by academics. Past Award Winners and Honorable Mentions are listed below.
Apply first for the American Accounting Association's ELS Poster Session and when confirmation is received, you may apply for the ELS Educator Awards program. Access to the online application form will be coming soon.
Other Educator Awards
- George Krull/Grant Thornton Innovation in Junior and Senior Level Teaching Award
- Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award
For more information, contact the AICPA Academics Team at academics@aicpa.org.
Award Winners and Honorable Mention Recipients
2018 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient: “Teaching and Learning Toolbox”, Markus Ahrens, St. Louis Community College and Cathy J. Scott, University of North Texas - Dallas (mahrens@stlcc.edu; professorcathyjscott@gmail.com)
Honorable Mention: “Data Analytics in Introductory Accounting”, Wendy Tietz, Kent State University and Tracie Miller Nobles, Austin Community College (wtietz@kent.edu; tnobles@austincc.edu)
2017 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“Create Customized Financial Accounting Case Assignments with the Accounting Case Template (ACT)”
Wendy Tietz, Kent State University
Honorable Mention
“Brainteasers, Black Lights, and Balance Sheets: Applying Introductory Financial Accounting Concepts in an Interactive Escape Room Environment”
Chris McCullick and Ashley Minnich, William Jewell College
2016 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“Excel-Based Active-Learning for the Managerial Accounting Course”
Karen Braun, Case Western Reserve University
Honorable Mention
“Launch Learning: Students Create, Collaborate…and Comprehend Managerial Accounting!”
Kelvie Crabb, The University of Kansas, Gail Hoover King, Purdue University Northwest and Kimberly Swanson Church, University of Missouri-Kansas City
2015 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“UBuild: A Simulation Bridging Financial and Managerial Accounting”
Fabienne Miller and Huong Higgins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Honorable Mention
“Introducing Accounting: Classroom Application of the Pathways Commission Vision”
Melissa Larson, Brigham Young University
2014 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“Accounting in the Headlines: A News Blog for the Introductory Accounting Classroom”
Wendy Tietz, Kent State University
Honorable Mention
“Accounting Challenge (ACE): Mobile-Gaming App for Learning Accounting”
Poh-Sun Seow and Suay-Peng Wong, Singapore Management University
2013 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“Reinventing Student Engagement and Collaboration within Introductory Accounting Courses”
Markus Ahrens — St. Louis Community College
Honorable Mentions
“The Accounting Tournament - March Madness in Financial Accounting”
Edward Bysiek — St. Bonaventure University
"Second Chance Homeless Shelter: A Fraud Case for Introductory and Survey Courses in Accounting"
Curtis M. Nicholls and Stacey A. Mastrolia — Bucknell University
2012 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“A FASB Accounting Standards Codification Project for Introductory Accounting”
Kay Poston and John Waters — University of Indianapolis
Honorable Mentions
“Words and Numbers: Introducing Freshmen Students in the Accounting/Finance Course to the Library”
Candy A. Bianco, Elizabeth Galoozis, Elliott Levy, Mary Marcel, and Karen K. Osterheld — Bentley University
“Digital Storytelling for Engaged Student Learning”
Themin Suwardy, Gary Pan, Seow Poh-Sun — Singapore Management University
2011 Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award Winners
Recipient
“$Chocolate$: Accounting as a First Year Seminar”
Priscilla Wightman — Hartwick College
Honorable Mentions
“Teaching Internal Control through Active Learning”
Tammy Duxbury and MaryElla Gainor — Bryant University
“The Farming Game® and the Introductory Financial Accounting Course: An Accounting Simulation”
Nate L. Staheli — University of Hawaii - Manoa
2010 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award Winners
Recipient
“Who Moved my Classroom?: A Framework for Community-Linked Learning and Assessment in Accounting”
Christopher D. Brandon — Indiana University Purdue University Columbus; Marsha Huber — Youngstown State University; Larita J. Killian — Indiana University Purdue University Columbus
Honorable Mentions
“A Better Way to Teach Effective Interest Method Related Problems in Accounting”
Avinash Arya — William Paterson University
"Mini-responsibility centers:” A strategy for learning by leading”
Sandria S. Stephenson — Texas State University
