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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. [
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