Registration Form - Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CPAs
Accounting Is an Entertaining Career
High School Educators
Accounting Symposium
MadisoN
Believe It or Not!
Sponsored by the WICPA Educational Foundation
Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
Radisson Hotel, Madison
Are you a 2012
grant recipient?
If yes, you receive FREE
registration and do not need
to fill out the payment
information below. Please
select your breakout sessions.
Breakout sessions
(SELECT ONE FOR EACH TIME SLOT)
Credit card registrations will be accepted
by mail, phone, fax or on the WICPA
website. All other registrations must be
mailed with payment enclosed.
First name:___________________________________________________________________
Last name:___________________________________________________________________
School name:_________________________________________________________________
School street address:_________________________________________________________
City/state/zip:________________________________________________________________
Email address:________________________________________________________________
Phone number:_______________________________________________________________
Fee: $45
Don’t forget to use your Carl Perkins funds! Purchase orders not accepted.
Method of payment:
MasterCard
If credit card payment:
Cardholder name:_____________________________________________________________
Card number:_________________________________________________________________
CVV # (3 digits on back): __________________________Expiration date:_______________
Payment amount: $____________________________________________________________
Signature:_______________________________________Date:_________________________
Credit card billing address:_____________________________________________________
City/state/zip: _________________________________________________________
Registration Form

CPAs
Accounting Is an Entertaining Career
Conference highlights:
• Hear a CPA talk about his experiences with
restaurants, lodging, entertainment and casinos in
famous Las Vegas hotels.
• Learn about the “Start Here, Go Places: Educators’
Portal,” an online community by the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA),
for accounting teachers and counselors to interact
and share ideas, curriculum and resources.
• Hear interesting, fascinating and hard-to-believe
stories about the accounting profession from a
panel of CPAs in the entertainment and
hospitality industries.
• Discuss best practices for keeping students
engaged and motivated.
• Participate in an idea-sharing session to learn
what other teachers in Wisconsin are doing in
their classrooms.
• Learn about the outlook of the accounting
profession and why it is an outstanding
college major.
• Receive an accounting case study to use with
your students.
• Network with CPAs, professors and college
accounting students.
• Use this event for your Professional Development
Plan (PDP).
• Receive a subscription to On Balance magazine, the
WICPA’s award-winning bimonthly publication.
Be sure to:
Come prepared to talk about your best accounting
field trip, what you would do to supplement your
curriculum if you had an unlimited budget, and how
you use technology in your classroom.
Believe It or Not!
Information
[
Contact person:
Mary Murray
mary@wicpa.org
800-772-6939 ext. 3005
The WICPA High School Educators Accounting Symposiums are
planned with the help of high school accounting teachers and the
WICPA Accounting Careers Committee, who understand the hot topics
related to teaching accounting in today’s world. Each year, teachers
receive information to incorporate into their current curriculum.
Registration Deadline is Friday, Oct. 26
Mail payment and registration to:
WICPA
235 N. Executive Drive, Suite 200
Brookfield, WI 53005
Fax: 262-785-0838
Online registration:
www.wicpa.org/SymposiumReg
Check this out! Watch a video of teachers sharing
what they like about the annual WICPA High School Educators
Symposium, www.wicpa.org/Symposium.
Accounting Career Awareness Grant Program
Believe this! Attend this conference and be eligible for a grant
from the WICPA Educational Foundation, Inc. Each year, the
Foundation awards grants to high school teachers across
Wisconsin. Only teachers who attend the WICPA Educators
Symposium can apply. Funds are awarded for local projects
that promote accounting as a career and involve interaction
with CPAs. Attend the symposium and learn how you can
receive funds to benefit you and your accounting class.
Application deadline is Friday, Dec. 14, 2012.
Lodging
A block of rooms is available at the rate of $89
per room for the night of Thursday, Nov. 8.
Call the Radisson Hotel at 800-395-7046
or 608-833-0100 and use the group code
WICPA. Deadline for the group rate is
Friday, Oct. 12.
[

2012 High School Educators
Accounting Symposium
Friday, Nov. 9 | Radisson Hotel
517 Grand Canyon Drive, Madison
[800-395-7046 | www.radisson.com
[
235 North Executive Drive | Suite 200
Brookfield, WI 53005
PRSRT STD
US POSTAGE
PAID
MILWAUKEE, WI
PERMIT NO. 5845
CPAs
Accounting Is an
Entertaining Career
Agenda
Believe It or Not!
It or Not!
8-8:30 a.m.
9:20-9:50 a.m.
Registration and
Breakout Sessions (Choose A, B or C below)
Continental Breakfast
9:55-10:25 a.m.
8:30-8:45 a.m.
Breakout Sessions (Choose A, B or C below)
Welcome: Danica Olson, CPA, CGMA,
10:25-10:40 a.m
Milwaukee Bucks, Inc.
Break
8:45-9:15 a.m.
10:40-11:40 a.m.
Online Communities to Educate,
Believe It or Not: Accounting IS an
Engage and Inspire Students’ Career
Entertaining Career: Gary Ziehr, CPA,
Exploration, Heather Bunning, AICPA
talks about his experiences working with
[
Breakout Sessions (choose one for each session)
Junior Achievement Brings Business Budgeting Case Study: Kelly Sics, CPA at
Skills to Your Students: Beth Tomscak of the Wisconsin Dental Association, presents
Junior Achievement talks about how their a new activity involving Wisconsin Dells
programs teach kids business basics through attractions for you to take home to
simulations and volunteer instructors. supplement your curriculum.
A B C
restaurants, hotels, entertainment and
casinos in Las Vegas.
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.
Lunch and Grant Program
1-2 p.m.
Believe It or Not: Listen to a panel of
CPAs tell stories that make you ask, “A
CPA really did that?”
2-3 p.m.
Idea Exchange
Accounting Career Outlook and What
Your Students Need to Succeed: A
public accounting recruiter gives data
regarding the outlook of the profession and
what skills students need to be successful.
[