If you’ve been thinking about incorporating generative AI into your accounting courses but aren’t sure where to start, I have a resource for you. AI in Accounting Education: A Practical Guide for Educators and Students is a free PDF book you can use immediately in your classes. It includes 28 chapters that span financial, managerial, […]
Continue readingInterested in integrating examples of ESG into your accounting course?
This week, I’m giving a presentation on ways to integrate ESG into introductory accounting at the AAA’s Sustainability in Accounting conference. I thought I’d share one of the resources I developed for that presentation here on my blog. Introductory financial or managerial accounting is a great place to help students see how accounting connects to […]
Continue readingHow could Ford’s expansion of its Avon Lake plant to manufacture electric commercial vans impact its balance sheet, cash flows, and profitability?
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is moving ahead with a $1.5 billion expansion of its Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake to start producing a new electric commercial van by 2026. This investment is part of Ford’s strategy to shift towards more electric and hybrid vehicles that are cost-efficient and offer better value to customers. […]
Continue readingNew! Cryptogram puzzle to review PP&E
Below are links to handouts for a cryptogram puzzle to review Property, Plant & Equipment in financial accounting. Both handouts relate to the same puzzle, but one is the student handout and the other is the solution. This is a quick puzzle – it is a phrase that relates to PP & E. To solve […]
Continue readingWhat expenditures would have been capitalized versus expensed in converting a church building to Belltower Brewing Co.?
What expenditures would have been capitalized versus expensed in converting a church building to Bell Tower Brewing Co.? The owners of Bell Tower Brewing Co. in Kent, Ohio, purchased a 150-year-old church a few years ago. Over a three-year period, they converted the church building into a two-story, 9,000-square foot brewery. Pews from the church […]
Continue readingNew! Word Search Puzzle to Review PP&E and More in Financial Accounting
Below are links to a word search puzzle to review Property, Plant & Equipment and Intangible Assets in financial accounting. Both links are to the same puzzle, but one has a solution button enabled and the other does not. PP&E and Intangible Assets word search puzzle (student version): Share this link with your students to […]
Continue readingHow will Stack Investors use the relative sales value method to allocate the purchase price of a rental property it purchased?
How will Stack Investors use the relative sales value method to allocate the purchase price of a rental property it purchased? Stack Investors is a real estate company, specializing in student housing rentals. Black Squirrel Rentals recently purchased a house at 121 Crain Avenue in Kent for $55,000. Rooms in the house will be rented […]
Continue readingHow will Chipotle recognize the costs of Chippy, its tortilla-chip-making robot?
Chipotle is currently testing Chippy, a robot that makes tortilla chips. Chippy makes the chips less than perfect so that they appear to be made by a human. Customers are used to finding a chip with a little more salt or a little extra lime, so Chippy is making those subtle variations in the chips. […]
Continue readingWhat costs would the Stellar Pizza robotic pizza restaurant capitalize or expense?
Stellar Pizza has a pizza-making robotic machine that was built by three former SpaceX engineers. More than 23 former SpaceX employees work at Stellar Pizza. The pizza-making robot can produce a pizza every 45 seconds. A pizza can be customized, baked, and topped in less than five minutes by the robotic machine. Stellar Pizza will […]
Continue readingHow will Texas Instruments account for the cost of its new semiconductor wafer plant?
Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:TXN) is expanding its chip manufacturing capacity. It announced recently that it will begin construction in 2022 on its new plant for manufacturing 300-millimeter semiconductor wafers. Semiconductor wafers are used in a variety of products, particularly in industrial and automotive electronics. Texas Instruments (TI) acquired the land for the plant in 2021. […]
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