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Excel Spreadsheets as a Tool for Teaching and Learning Intermediate Accounting Online

Sat, April 29, 9:05 to 10:45am, Hilton Miami Downtown, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This presentation describes several ways spreadsheets may enhance online teaching and learning in the first two intermediate financial accounting courses. Specific examples developed and used by the presenter will be demonstrated and discussed.
Spreadsheet technology may be used to effectively address issues related to online course delivery. In particular, Excel can be used to harness technology to deliver learning and assessment activities and maintain academic productivity in the face of increasing class sizes, diminishing resources, and distance learning formats. Properly integrated, it can serve as a course management system that organizes materials, serves as a communication interface, and summarizes student progress. A new feature in development is to tie Excel spreadsheets to databases so that the functionality is available fully online and the data is continuously archived.
In addition, Excel is an excellent pedagogical tool in a discipline that relies so heavily on the software in actual practice. Students benefit from enhanced opportunities to explore the integrated nature of accounting concepts using this technology, which is equipped to map quantitative relationships. Examples of course assignments will demonstrate how the formatting and functionality features of Excel are incorporated to design and organize data and forms and to provide student feedback. Formative exercises guide students by providing real-time prompts and feedback as they progress. Algorithmic assignments provide opportunities for repeated practice with different data sets and enable individualized exams to be generated with built-in answer keys and feedback where each student receives a unique version.
Audience members will be encouraged to interact with the presenter to promote ways that this technology can be enhanced to benefit both instructors and students. The learning objectives of the session focus on understanding new ways that Excel can be utilized as a teaching and course management tool as well as appreciating how it can serve as an instructional partner for online intermediate accounting students.

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