Registration Form - Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants

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
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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.
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