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Teaching the financial elements of Business or Enterprise is tricky. The requirements are broad in scope, technical in detail, and the learning specifications are daunting, if not overwhelming.
If that wasn’t enough, accounting uses common language in uncommon ways. And, as everybody knows, accounting is dull.
All of these things are true. Except accounting is not boring – it’s beautiful and exciting.
Welcome to Accounting Cafe, where you’ll find articles, courses and ideas for lessons. Everything is written by accounting and business subject experts.
Our resources work in many settings, although they focus on UK education. Specifically, Level 3 BTEC, A Level and T Level.
We provide free courses, articles, resources, lesson plans, seminars and workshops, and a community for discussion and debate.
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A free online course in accounting fundamentals
Accounting Cafe has partnered with Wealthvox to offer free access to “Let’s Talk Finance” – an 8-hour online course built on the delightful Colour Accounting Learning Method. This course is perfect for: — Academics seeking fresh teaching resources — Students looking to deepen their understanding of accounting fundamentals — Non-accounting…Read more
Dual coding in accounting education
Summary: A simple way to embrace dual coding in accounting education is to use a concept map. This “almost certainly” improves learning. Don’t reinvent the wheel: there’s a free one that you can adapt, copy and distribute. Give credit to its creators. This is the BaSIS Board. It combines words…Read more
Accounting is not just bean-counting; it creates money
This is a brief introduction to the nature of money and its relationship with accounting. It explains how accounting creates money. This is a fun way to introduce accounting, making learners think differently about accounting. Accounting isn’t just about counting beans — it makes them too. It may be hard…Read more
Top 5 most confusing things about accounting
At Accounting Cafe we’re discussing how we can clear up the confusing things about accounting. Terms that we take for granted are confusing for students. Make their learning journey faster and easier using these simple tips. Here are our top 5 most confusing things about accounting: 1. The most valuable…Read more
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